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Specialist palliative care nursing and the philosophy of palliative care: a critical discussion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Nursing is the largest regulated health professional workforce providing palliative care across a range of clinical settings. Historically, palliative care nursing has been informed by a strong philosophy of care which is soundly articulated in ...
Gardiner, C.   +3 more
core   +6 more sources

Does nurses' vulnerability affect their ability to care? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent reports from the Department of Health (2008), the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2011) and the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People (2012) have been highly critical regarding the care that some patients have experienced ...
Board, Michele, Heaslip, Vanessa
core   +1 more source

Problem based learning in mental health nursing : the students experience. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Problem based learning (PBL) is well established within the field of health-care education for professionals worldwide, although little has been done to explore the experiences of students undertaking a PBL course in mental health nursing.
Barrow   +35 more
core   +1 more source

Service Learning Enhances Conceptual Learning in a RN to BSN Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A qualitative study using transcript analysis was conducted to examine the effectiveness of service learning in enhancing conceptual learning in RN to BSN students.
Breen, Henny, Robinson, Melissa
core   +3 more sources

Virtue and austerity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to ...
Beauchamp T.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

The place of philosophy in nursing

open access: yesNursing Philosophy, 2023
AbstractPhilosophy adds humanness to nursing and facilitates holistic care. Philosophies like Ubuntu which purports that a person is only a person through other people and emphasises community cohesion and caring for each other can add humanness to nursing.
openaire   +2 more sources

Biomimetic bone-like apatite coating on anodised titanium in simulated body fluid under UV irradiation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Low temperature deposition techniques of bioceramics coatings are now being researched and developed to avoid deficiencies inherent in high temperature techniques.
Chandrasekar Ramasamy, Chandrasekar Ramasamy   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Indian philosophical foundations of spirituality at the end of life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Growing understanding of spirituality at the end of life demands more theoretical research on the subject. Empirical studies have highlighted the need for exploring philosophical and cultural concepts to facilitate a fuller understanding of spirituality ...
Inbadas, Hamilton
core   +1 more source

History, culture and traditions: the silent spaces in the study of spirituality at the end of life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Recent increase in the number of studies on spirituality manifests growing recognition of the importance of spirituality, as well as mounting interest in studying spirituality in healthcare.
Inbadas, Hamilton
core   +2 more sources

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

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