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Saturday, November 21, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence.

29 Nov 2009 This article addresses nursing presence, a phenomenon essential to holistic nursing care. The concept is introduced and explained, supporting background information is reviewed, barriers are identified, and successful applications are illustrated in ... Read more...

Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice.

29 Nov 2009 The therapeutic nature of the nurse-patient relationship is grounded in an ethic of caring. Florence Nightingale envisioned nursing as an art and a science...a blending of humanistic, caring presence with evidence-based knowledge and exquisite ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Knowledge'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence. 29 Nov 2009
• Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice. 29 Nov 2009
• Art, science, or both? Keeping the care in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• To know, to reason, to act. 29 Nov 2009
• Prescription standards are necessary to improve health literacy and medication safety. 30 Oct 2009
• Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry. 30 Oct 2009
• [Implementation of new knowledge in times of climate change?] 24 Oct 2009
• Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge. 3 Oct 2009
• Flow and diffusion of high-stakes test scores. 3 Oct 2009
• Why Johnny cannot operate. 29 Sep 2009
• Tracking the emergence of conceptual knowledge during human decision making. 22 Sep 2009
• [From dream to reality: the knowledgeable nurse, promoter of human development] 30 Aug 2009
• [Evidence of toxic effect of a chemical on reproduction ignored] 30 Aug 2009
• ["g-factor of psychotherapy. Summary and current research] 30 Aug 2009
• Breast cancer screening participation among Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands: exploring reasons for nonattendance. 30 Aug 2009
• Active compounds and atoms of society: plants, bodies, minds and cultures in the work of Kenyan ethnobotanical knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Extending knowledge of terror management theory to improve palliative nursing care. 30 Jul 2009
• Quantitative and qualitative research: received and interpretivist views of science. 30 Jul 2009
• HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, sources and perceived need among senior high school students: a cross-sectional study in China. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Knowledge'

Definition: The body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time, the cumulated sum of information, its volume and nature, in any civilization, period, or country.

Descriptor UI: D019359

Alternative terms: Knowledge; Epistemology;

Tree Number: K01.468; L01.535;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: restrict to knowledge as an abstract or philosophical concept, as "transmission of knowledge"; do not use as coordinate for knowledge of specific subjects as "fuller use of our knowledge about children"; will figure largely in historical articles & historical contexts; "medical knowledge" is probably MEDICINE & not here