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To be fully healthy is to risk encountering and embracing the complex substrate of mysterious life-giving and lifedenying spiritual forces, the hidden wholeness of God. Risky health behavior may paradoxically arise from the psychospiritual need to both probe and avoid probing the deeper understandings of health reflected in the tensions between good and evil. Avoidance of the painful truths of poverty, racism, sexism, and classism among other evils in our society results in the prevalence of high-risk life styles, addictions, and violent behaviors. Spiritual paradigms from holistic community care are needed to enable communities to more fully respond to the health empowering potential of the hidden wholeness rather than hiding from it.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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Studying nursing history allows nurses to understand more fully problems currently affecting the profession, such as pay, regulation, shortage, education, defining practice, autonomy, and unity. Present day nurses cannot effectively address these important issues without a foundation of historical knowledge. In short, examining history allows nurses to more fully appreciate their important role in the health care system of the United States. This appreciation can provide nurses with important political strength.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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The atmosphere in which community health nurses (CHNs) work in city, suburban, and rural neighborhoods has become increasingly dangerous. Using Neuman's Systems Theory, four graduate students surveyed CHNs from three certified home health agencies to ascertain the real and perceived safety risks which these workers face daily. The response from all three agencies was similar as the nurses identified several situations in which they felt that their safety was compromised. As a result of the information gathered, a Community Risk-Reduction Plan was formulated.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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This article addresses issues of business risk in the home health care industry. General concepts of risk are discussed, and the unique attributes affecting risk in the home health industry are identified and reviewed particularly as they affect market entry strategies, differentiation, innovation, and regulation.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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Third party reimbursement policies have created barriers to coordinated health services. They have had the effect of compromising the nature and quality of the delivery of nursing service to the elderly in the home setting, thereby posing health risks to older adults. The practice of holistic nursing requires à total commitment to the advocacy role in order to reduce risks to elderly clients and to provide them with quality care.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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Sixteen people with multiple sclerosis (MS) responded to a semi-structured questionnaire about their experiences with alternative therapies. No definition of alternative therapies was provided. Physical therapy, counseling, nutrition, and massage were the most frequently used alternative therapies. Other therapies included acupuncture, occupational therapy, aquatic therapy, Therapeutic Touch, yoga, passive exercise, and removal of mercury alloy tooth fillings. Almost two thirds of the respondents reported seeking an alternative health practitioner because traditional physicians offered no cure for MS. Just under one third of the respondents stated that the quality of their lives was improved by alternative therapies.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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Pressure to assume increasing risks, both individually and organizationally, has become a bellwether for nursing's practitioners, managers, and educators. Inherent in the role of today's nurse is the ability to make decisions, often with risk, at both an individual and a collective level. Yet, until recently, nursing's ability to practice independent decision making for both their clients and policies governing their practice were neither supported nor endorsed. The literature indicates a significant number of nurses value risk taking and are willing to make informed decisions regarding the probability of rewards and the consequences associated with failure. How and when these risks are assumed is dependent upon a variety of influences.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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To maintain the present cadre of nurse educators the paradoxes that put them at risk must be addressed. Three major paradoxical issues are explored: the persistent focus on the vocational model as vehicle for the development of the professional nurse, hindrances to anticipatory and incumbency socialization, and tenure and promotion requirements. Greater socialization and better educational academic preparation will increase the success and satisfaction of nursing faculty.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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This randomized, experimental study examined the effects of guided imagery on anxiety levels and on movement of clients undergoing nonemergency magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Subjects who listened to a guided imagery/relaxation tape (n=20) before their MRI scan and used guided imagery during their scan had lower levels of state anxiety than the control group (n=21). Based on subject report and operator report, the experimental group moved less frequently during the MRI than the control group. The results of this investigation support the use of guided imagery as a therapeutic intervention and Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID

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The circumcision of young women and girls is widespread in African countries as well as in other parts of the world and clearly places them at risk for serious health consequences. Plans to eradicate the practice must recognize the cultural underpinnings that have maintained it. This article discusses the types of female circumcision and the concomitant short- and long-term health risks. The cultural aspects and origins of the procedure are described and a simple model of risk-taking based on control, information, and time is used to explain the complexity of issues that may be involved in the decision of women to consent to the procedure.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1994

数据来源: OVID