Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

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"Altered energy diagnosis"

Do you support this NANDA diagnosis? Or do you feel that this diagnosis threatens the legitamacy of our profession? Nanda still stands behind it. What are your thoughts?

paphgrl

Interesting. The page reference would be nice!

And for you:

Journal of Statistical Education, Vol 9, No 1, 2001. Eric R Sowey,Studying Demonstrations in Teaching Statistics.

The Economist, June 29, 2004 Signifying nothing

How to understand statistics, July 28, 2003 bbc.co.uk I'm sure you should be able to under\stand the last reference.

Grannynurse:balloons:

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And for you:

Journal of Statistical Education, Vol 9, No 1, 2001. Eric R Sowey,Studying Demonstrations in Teaching Statistics.

The Economist, June 29, 2004 Signifying nothing

How to understand statistics, July 28, 2003 bbc.co.uk I'm sure you should be able to under\stand the last reference.

Grannynurse:balloons:

Gee wiz! Hope I can understand it!:coollook:

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Gee wiz! Hope I can understand it!:coollook:

If not, you can always go to a bookstore and buy "Statistics for Dummies".:)

Grannynurse:balloons:

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Specializes in Nursing assistant.

It takes a big nurse to pick on a uneducated lil' ol nursing assistant!

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Specializes in Nursing assistant.

’t find the article on BBC, and, on my wages;), couldn’t afford the dummy book, but this is what I perused on my own…

There appears to be 2 basic things needed to have a study that allows for a credible interpretation of results: adequate sample size, and control of bias. The numbers participating need to be evaluated from both directions: Large enough to gather sufficient data to make your determinations, but still the minimum to do this.

Apparently, small trials are usually conducted because of limited numbers available for the trial, not by choice.

But if the trial is judiciously designed, it can make significant contributions to the understanding of the efficacy of a procedure or drug. Hope this helps. Guess we can conclude bigger is not always better?

Still could not find any real numbers that are acceptible, rather, an overall evaluation of the conduct of the trial seems to deem it legitamite or not....

'cuse my spelling,,,

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Theraputic touch is to nursing as intellegent design is to science.

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I think the concept of "Nursing Diagnosis" was a well intentioned attempt to describe what we do in language that would make us sound more professional to doctors and administrators. Unfortunately, like most things built by committee, it has spiraled out of control into a useless ungainly beast. Many times I have heard MD's laughing among themselves about the ridiculous NANDA language. Diagnosis like "potential for energy field disturbance" does not help!

I have to agree with you there. The NANDA language is ridiculous. Lets just toss out all those silly nurse diagnoses and focus on doing our job.

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Theraputic touch is to nursing as intellegent design is to science.

Could you go further in explaining where you see the parallels?

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Could you go further in explaining where you see the parallels?

Well, I hope I don't offend anyone here, but it is my opinion that there is no scientific basis for human "energy fields". Nor is there a scientific basis for intellegent design. Nursing is a profession grounded in science as is the process of evolution.

But please, I hope this doesn't turn into a debate on the merits of ID.

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It takes a big nurse to pick on a uneducated lil' ol nursing assistant!

Your words, not mine. And the series -------- for dummies is utilized by both the minimally educated to the advance educated, so, once again, it is your choice of the word 'uneducated'. If that is how you view yourself that is unfortunate but your misfortune, certainly not mine.

Grannynurse:balloons:

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Well, I hope I don't offend anyone here, but it is my opinion that there is no scientific basis for human "energy fields". Nor is there a scientific basis for intellegent design. Nursing is a profession grounded in science as is the process of evolution.

But please, I hope this doesn't turn into a debate on the merits of ID.

There was no scientific bases for serveral of Einstein's theories, so I suppose you rank him up with the proponents of intellegent design. And nursing is more then just a science. It is an art as well, although one wouldn't know it based on some posters.

Grannynurse:balloons:

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Suggest you read Chapters 18 thru 22. And Chapters 15 thru 16 might be helpful as well. I have two other sources of statistical analysis as well but I wouldn't want to burden you with those.

Grannynurse

Thanks. If you have time again, can you point me to the page where it talks about you need 100 people? I'll look up these chapters in the mean time (have to go back to the library).

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