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  1. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    All the energy stuff (there are many different ones and it seemed TT is one of the most vocal ones) is nothing new. I grew up in Asia and the concept is part of our culture. It is in mythology, in...
  2. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    What? Please explain a bit more. If it was tried and it was statistically insignificant, how would that deemed it invalid? What was deemed statistically
  3. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Ok... then you can place something else that is much
  4. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Another thought after I reread the alter energy field diagnosis. It mentioned that one should not apply TT as much with children and the geriatric population. My question is - what happened when you...
  5. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Just thinking of wild ideas of how to test this TT thing (in terms of effectiveness). One possiblity is to have three groups of people. Group A will be patients with highly qualify TT practitioner....
  6. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    I place this site because it also contains sites that are pro
  7. You need to turn the filter on. For example in google, do the following: Go to http://www.google.com Select "Image" next to "web" Right underneath the search box, if it say "safe search if...
  8. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Here is an interesting TT portal http://www.phact.org/e/tt/ It contains both pro and con TT sites. I only have time to scan a little bit, interesting
  9. TEAS results interpretation help!

    Just look for the "program mean" and you got it. Usually for TEAS, it floats around 75 for the raw score. But what really counts is the pool of applicants that are in your school when you are...
  10. TEAS results interpretation help!

    Look on the back on the TEAS score, it has explanation. The short explanation is that the National score percentile is comparing you to all the people who ever took the TEAS. The program percentile...
  11. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Actually what would be really interesting to do is to have people who are very familiar with TT picked say 3 best highest quality studies. Then we can all review it in detail together. And people...
  12. student safety

    I think nursing school should be require to offer lessons with the PE department on how to duck FAST. A class where students develope their reflexes, especially in ducking and running away. The...
  13. need input- statistics vs finite math

    Take stat because you can use it in nursing research. Finite math is useful in fields like computer science, very different. Go to the bookstore and just scan the textbooks and you'll get a good...
  14. Palm Pilot software for nursing

    I just tried Due Yesterday, this is a great program to keep track of everything class related and the price is right
  15. Do you call your patients by first or last name?

    The problem with Ms comes in when I address a woman of the older generation as some gets insulted because they associate Ms with some radical feminist. Maybe I should pick up a Southern accent......
  16. Do you call your patients by first or last name?

    What would you do with a female patient? Mrs. Ms. Miss. ???? Is there a way to find out their preference (assume they don't wear a wedding
  17. Well, there is a problem with cost. As for hospice benefit for animals, at least not full blown hospice where you have a whole team consists of social worker, nurse, doctors, volunteers,...
  18. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    It is not a new diagnosis? I thought it was... I could be
  19. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    No, because there is an art side to nursing. But when we are dealing with nursing diagnosis, I do think the more scientific backing one has, the better. Given the current state of TT in terms of...
  20. Many times, there is a third opiton - hospice care. Now the question is why are there no hospice care for
  21. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    I think the problem with TT at this moment is not whether the base of the treatment can be proven scientifically. The problem is whether it is even effective. As quoted from the NIH, it is...
  22. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Looks like the discussion is taking off in a different direction. If I understood it right, the original discussion was whether the energy field diagnosis should be included in the new nursing...
  23. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Let me clarify one thing about the studies, I am not talking about the scientific bases of biofeeback or CBT. I am refering to studies that are done on what areas they are effective in and what areas...
  24. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    Let's take a look at NIH on energy, it is quite interesting. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/backgrounds/energymed.htm What NIH is trying to do is to be evidence base with minimum hype which is good. The...
  25. Nursing diagnosis "altered energy field"

    It seemed like this very vocal minority decided to make TT "legit" through political means instead of through running high quality scientific