264 Search Results for Philosophical and Empirical Foundations of
Nursing is a science and an art, combining evidence-based practice with a practice based on caring, compassion, kindness, and respect. Evidence-based practice legitimizes nursing as a profession, as it eliminates guesswork during the delivery of care Continue Reading...
Theories
The real data from audience ratings comes from the "people meters" that record what the target sample watches, how long the shows are watched, and what is fast-forwarded. In the case of the Nielsen ratings data is sent daily (both live and Continue Reading...
Woolf / Women in Violence and War
The current paper deals with the use of stream of consciousness and narrative technique by Virginia Wolf. The author has discussed how Woolf comes and goes in time and space to reveal her inside feelings, and why sh Continue Reading...
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Nursing and the ER
The Emergency Room is often one of the most visible parts of healthcare for political debate. It is also one of the most difficult environments for a modern nurse. It is interesting that one of the founders of modern Continue Reading...
Francis Bacon's Advancement Of Learning
An Analysis of Bacon's Rationale for Writing the Advancement of Learning
When one analyzes Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning, he does so by first entering into an era that was primarily dedicated to ove Continue Reading...
Skinner also proposed a full social model of an ideal society based on his principles of behaviorism.
The growth of cognitive psychology (aided in no small part by advances in neuroscience and medicine) has served to both discredit many behaviorist Continue Reading...
Al-Ghazali, through his investigations, showed that both certainty of sense-perceptions (e.g. though the shadow of a stick that seems to imply that the stick is moving when it is not) and certainty of alleged intellectual truths (i.e. The possibilit Continue Reading...
Burns (2007) indicates that the text is about that which motivates the actions and decisions of the entrepreneur, including the influence of personal social networks, family and personal background. Moreover, the text reports itself to be about the Continue Reading...
This can occur without any human intervention. Therefore the issue of permanence becomes incomprehensible to man, regardless of science and logic (or perhaps because of it). As such, we cannot legitimately claim that any object or form is "real" bec Continue Reading...
Prior to the solidification of society in the major cities of Greece, the period called the Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100-750 BC) shows that there was a great deal of trade and cultural influence between Greece, Egypt, and the Assyrian/Babylonian culture Continue Reading...
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Finally, I am interested in whether or not there is a trickle-down effect from leftist or rightist politics style at the provincial and federal levels.
1.3 Objectives
1.3.1 There are two major objectives for this research. The first is to comp Continue Reading...
Walker and Clark propose active use of clinical supervision through facilitation, rather than directive approaches and discuss ten cues of seemingly insignificant acts that may lead to problems, such as gift-giving, sale of goods, self-disclosure on Continue Reading...
(1990) Municipal Government Involvement in Crime Prevention in Canada. This work provides insight into the way that municipal government interacts with the police in the organization of crime prevention structures and the delivery of crime preventio Continue Reading...
The following abstract demonstrates the different aspects of the scientific method:
PROBLEM STATEMENT: Study of relationship between folates-B-vitamins and Alzheimer's disease.
Adults who eat the daily recommended allowance of folates-B-vitamin n Continue Reading...
Absolution vs. Relativism
Columnist William Wineke points out that the real problem with relativism is that it gives no place to stop the slippery slide, no place to stand and say "no" (Wineke pp). In other words, each step taken simply makes it eas Continue Reading...
dawn of the nineteenth century there were approximately sixty million buffalo roaming the North American great pains; but by the end of the century, there were less than one thousand. This empirical fact, perhaps more than any other, grants a certai Continue Reading...
Apart from literary arts, individualism is also most evident in the field of education. The development of educational institutions, spearheaded by the Florentine Academy, an informal organization of humanists, helped celebrate human reason in comb Continue Reading...
Philosophy of Science
Scientific theories allow scientists to organize their observations regarding reality and existence, and predict or create future observations or results. Scientific theories need to be consistent, testable, verifiable and usef Continue Reading...
growing recognition of the changing educational needs of college students, particularly those attending community colleges. In response to this awareness, reform efforts have been implemented in order to meet the needs of students. As reform efforts Continue Reading...
(Eljamal; Stark; Arnold; Sharp, 1999)
To conclude, it be said that if we will not be able to master imparting the capability to think in a developed form, our profession, as well as perhaps our world, would be influenced and taken over by someone w Continue Reading...
Their anticipated and desired results for their education, personal or practical, may vary widely in unpredictable ways. The attitudes towards educational processes may differ due to the greater and more diverse social and life experiences that colo Continue Reading...
Importantly, he builds his case on the
sociological theories of those who preceded him. To this extent, he
remarks at one juncture, "as Giddens (1984) states, 'institutions by
definition are the more enduring features of social life... giving solidi Continue Reading...
For example, Tocqueville was able to explain 18th century European aristocrat behavior by looking at social consequences. Like Tocqueville, Marx believed that they could explain individual actions by looking at subconscious class interests. Frey has Continue Reading...
Healing Hospitals
The United States is teeming with many people that are religious and/or spiritual in nature. In addition to that, many hospitals are owned and/or operated by religion-oriented groups with Jewish and Catholic hospitals being two of Continue Reading...