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  1. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    i think the intent is good. that is, to have a standard language where nurses can communicate with each other regardless where you are from. this could help especially if you float a lot or if you are...

  2. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Well, they already have references on interactions between traditional meds and alternative meds. At least those alternative meds that gone through scientific studies and they document what they...

  3. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    The thing is... with Western medicine... it does have a built-in process to accept other ideas. The more radical the ideas, the more scientific proofs you need and you also need time for people to...

  4. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

  5. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Good attitude. I think this can be apply to all of us regardless of educational level. I would just replace "nursing assistant" with "RN/LPV/LVP/NP/whatever". Hmmm... I don't know if that is true....

  6. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    You know, my dad has a Ph.D. from Stanford and my mom just has a high school degree from Hong Kong. Guess what, after both my parents died and I had some time to reflect... my mom definitely have the...

  7. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes it is not just placebo, depending on the illness, you do have "spontaneous remission" where the person just get better by him/herself. About the chicken soup, off topic... it reminded me...

  8. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Actually it reminded me one time I was in a jury selection thing. The lawyer asked me if a car is coming the other direction and it passes the traffic light, what color is the traffic light. My...

  9. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    May I ask "how hard" do you have to kick it? :chuckle They really should teach these skills in nursing schools. Maybe at least as a prereq or something. For nurses who are not in school, maybe we...

  10. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

  11. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Agree, it has to be practical eventually. Actually even the objective scientific types are not that objective. They have their own bias. But at least in science, we are aware of our bias and take...

  12. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    I think "energy field" is the most controversial one. I think "Denial, Ineffective" is an interesting one. First the title of it gave me the impression that a patient is in denial but not doing a...

  13. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you! Actually, come to think of it... the ability to play political games is quite important as it can affect greatly patient care one way or another. Maybe nursing school should have a...

  14. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Would short-winded treatises be ok ? Sorry for going off topic

  15. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Good point, I have not even thought about that potential

  16. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, there are goods in graduate level educations if one has the opportunites to get it. One of my professor once said "The only reason you want to go to grad school is that so you won't get...

  17. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Grannynurse, guess we have some miscommunication here? I am not asking you to teach me statistics. I may be wrong... but you seemed to be saying to me "I am in graduate school, and you don't know...

  18. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Naaa... not worth it. Just go to the local library and check it out. The "dummies" series actually are pretty good books most of the times when one wants to learn a new subject. Actually it can be a...

  19. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    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

  20. need input- statistics vs finite math

    danu3 replied to helenjp's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Having a basic knowledge of stat is useful in nursing (if you hate it, you can always avoid it in your career) because at a minimum, you can now read research studies and know the terminology and...

  21. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Ok,I got a hold of "The Practice of Nursing Research - Conduct, Critique, & Utilization" 4th ed by Nancy Burns and Susan K. Grove in the library. If you have the time, could you give me the page...

  22. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    These other nursing researchers are all very pro-TT, I take it? It seemed like the term "statistically insignificant" is used in a very unconventional way. For example, the "Effect of Therapeutic...

  23. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    I think I am not understanding you at all... we are cross-wireing each other. Where do these PhDs get their statistical training? To be able to calculate something that is statistical significant,...

  24. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Since this is an abstract, I just looked at it and here are my thoughts. This appears in the Holistic Nursing. So one question is if one do a search in this journal that deals with TT, are they ALL...

  25. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    danu3 replied to paphgrl's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, that is great. I would suggest people who are interested focus on http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FSL/is_2_69/ai_53893763 because we have access to the full article. The other one,...