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according to madeline leninger, why is the study of anthropology valuable to the nursing career? what is you're perspective and how does it affect you're nursing-pt relationship?

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according to madeline leninger, why is the study of anthropology valuable to the nursing career? what is you're perspective and how does it affect you're nursing-pt relationship?

so how did you answer it?? sounds interesting!

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according to madeline leninger, why is the study of anthropology valuable to the nursing career? what is you're perspective and how does it affect you're nursing-pt relationship?

could you restate this, please? i can't figure out who said what and what you want us to do in response.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

"So how did you answer it?? Sounds interesting"

:yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in Home Care.

We're not here to do your homework.

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"So how did you answer it?? Sounds interesting"

:yeah::yeah:

You know what that was about huh, Roser??? :rolleyes: Not only do we get to do homework for someone else, but we also have to try and sleuth out what they mean and what they need!

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.

I thought physical anthro was more usefull than cultural anthro, which I found hopelessly subjective. Cultural anthro is a slightly less retarded field than sociology.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Instructor wants YOUR opinion on the subject.

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Boo :( I clicked on this thinking it would be a fascinating topic, and one close to my heart since my undergraduate degree was in anthropology. Glad to hear I'm "slightly less retarded" than my sociology counterparts that also contribute theory to psychosocial nursing. :mad: Frankly, the beauty of anthropology is that it looks at the human being as a whole and at the individual within the greater context of culture and society. I think it's a great basis for nursing, since it helps with recognizing that our patients are more than the sum of their diagnoses and that they do not exist in a vacuum. We often wonder why pts are not compliant, but if you are a patient and think that your illness is a result of someone giving you the evil eye, and people look at you like you're nuts and give you antibiotic pills, you probably aren't going to put any more stock in the antibiotics than your care team does in the evil eye theory...

And, original poster, you're not going to succeed in nursing school trying to get someone else to do your homework.

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

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