Thinking
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making.

29 Nov 2009 This article discusses delegation challenges and legal and regulatory oversight associated with delegation in the clinical practice setting. The authors address moral and legal attributes of the roles and responsibilities of health care providers ... Read more...

Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude.

29 Nov 2009 The moral practice of nursing requires the difficult work of discerning the best response to an ethical quandary. Determining the right course of action can rarely be discovered by assuming that one value, one theory, one point of view will always ... Read more...

Learning sculpts the spontaneous activity of the resting human brain.

3 Oct 2009 The brain is not a passive sensory-motor analyzer driven by environmental stimuli, but actively maintains ongoing representations that may be involved in the coding of expected sensory stimuli, prospective motor responses, and prior experience. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Thinking'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making. 29 Nov 2009
• Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude. 29 Nov 2009
• To know, to reason, to act. 29 Nov 2009
• Learning sculpts the spontaneous activity of the resting human brain. 3 Oct 2009
• They think they are playing chess but really they are playing poker. Oct 2009
• Your brain: use it or lose it. 29 Sep 2009
• Using competencies to improve dental practice management education. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical gist and medical education: connecting the dots. 21 Sep 2009
• A piece of my mind. Driving thoughts. 14 Sep 2009
• Nursing ethics in the new millennium. 30 Aug 2009
• [Influence of therapeutic effect of acupoint sticking at Shenque (CV 8) for treatment of stroke patients] 30 Aug 2009
• Property transmission: an explanatory account of the role of similarity information in causal inference. 30 Aug 2009
• The "dark side" of the strength of weak ties: the diffusion of suicidal thoughts. 30 Aug 2009
• Are you thinking right? 30 Aug 2009
• Origin of the mind. 30 Aug 2009
• Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. 25 Aug 2009
• Robotics: The bot that plays ball. 25 Aug 2009
• Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation. 5 Aug 2009
• The evolution of cognitive behavior therapy for schizophrenia: current practice and recent developments. 4 Aug 2009
• Representations of physical plausibility revealed by event-related potentials. 3 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Thinking'

Definition: Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or situation based on past learning and experience.

Descriptor UI: D013850

Alternative terms: Thinking;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785;

Technical Notes: the thought process: do not confuse with MEDITATION, a relaxation technique; differentiate from COGNITION: see treeing & MeSH definition