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Critical thinking as an outcome of nursing education. What is it? Why is it important to nursing practice?

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1998
Critical thinking is currently a highly valued educational outcome throughout the educational spectrum, but particularly so in relation to higher and professional education.
W. Daly
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Social justice as a framework for professional nursing.

Journal of Nursing Education, 2005
A persistent connection exists between health disparity and societal inequality. Since more research is designed to document, rather than alter, those trends, nurses are called on to reinvest in a social justice agenda.
D. Boutain
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Nursing and the Good Society

2020
The sine qua non of a good society is that people have the freedom to be and to do that of which they are capable. However, people cannot have this freedom when caring for others is pitted against self-interest. Self-interest devolves into a care-lessness that is antithetical to the good society. Caring for others, by contrast, is a necessary condition
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Cultural attribution of mental health suffering in Chinese societies: the views of Chinese patients with mental illness and their caregivers.

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2006
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This study examined the cultural attribution of distress in the Chinese, the special role of the family in distress and the specific emotional reactions within distress dictated by culture.
Fei-Hsiu Hsiao, S. Klimidis, H. Minas, E. Tan   +3 more
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Philosophy of Technology and Nursing

, 2002
This paper outlines the background and significance of philosophy of technology as a focus of inquiry emerging within nursing scholarship and research.
A. Barnard
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Nurses and society: an important debate

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2008
The professionalism and compassion of nurses has come under question as the shortcomings of some nursing care have been reported in various enquiries including those into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital (Health Commission, 2007). The quest for ‘bad’ news in the media gives prominence to poor practice and dissatisfied patients and neglects much ...
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Is the professional code still the cornerstone of clinical nursing practice?

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1996
Although codes of practice for those concerned with the health care of others have always been inherent in the structure of societies, they have been institutionalized within the nursing discipline since the end of the last century.
Philip Esterhuizen
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Society of pediatric nurses update

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2003
The planning for the annual national conference started out simple enough. We decided early on that our thirteenth year as a society should be celebrated. It seemed developmentally appropriate: a thirteenth birthday party. Ideas for this celebration included non-latex balloons, a cake, maybe a theme of health concerns for adolescence.
Barb Larson, Cindy Smith Greenberg
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Transcultural nursing in Australian nursing curricula.

Nursing and Health Sciences, 2003
As a result of the fact that Australia is a multicultural society with many people who come from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB), the objective of the present study was to discuss the extent to which transcultural nursing education is ...
J. Pinikahana, E. Manias, B. Happell
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Older people's willingness to use home care nursing services.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2005
AIM This paper reports a study exploring willingness to use home care nursing services among older people and discussing the implications for long-term and home care nursing policies.
Sung-Hyun Cho
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