UT Health Sciences News: Japanese Scholars Visit One-of-a-Kind Nursing Theory Center at UT Health Sciences

A nursing theory that originated at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has made a major impact worldwide, especially in Japan. Followers of this theory traveled from Japan to Memphis recently to visit the Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory, established at the UT Health Sciences College of Nursing in 2023.

There are only three nursing theory centers in the United States, said Associate Professor Marie Gill, PhD, MSN, MS, RN, who directs the Newman Center. The Newman Center is unique because it's the only nursing theory center located in a health science center with an active archive supported by a dedicated director and archivist, she said.

Memphis native Margaret Newman, PhD, RN, FAAN, was a world-renowned nurse theorist who earned her nursing degree at UT Health Sciences. It was through caring for her mother during a long illness that she began to develop her theory: Health as Expanding Consciousness.

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