Margaret Newman wins prestigious Living Legend honor from American Academy of Nursing

Margaret Newman, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, is best known for her development of nursing theory. In the 1970s, she led development of doctoral and post-doctoral courses on nursing theory at New York University, and later helped to initiate a postdoctoral nursing theory think tank at Pennsylvania State University. In her publication, Theory Development in Nursing (1979), considered by some educators to be the early primer on nursing theory, she analyzed this process and introduced readers to her theory of health as expanding consciousness.