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Introduction Nursing is a profession that involved in identifying its own unique body of knowledge essential to nursing practice. To identify the knowledge base, nurses should develop and recognize theories that are specific to nursing. Parker and Smith (2010) define theory as a set of concepts, definitions and propositions that project a systematic view of…

Health Service Delivery Profile Philippines 2012 Compiled in collaboration between WHO and Department of Health, Philippines Philippines health service delivery profile Demographics and health situation Positioned on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, on the south-eastern rim of Asia, the Philippines is the second-largest archipelago on the planet, with over 7,107 islands In 2010,…

Professional roles of nurses Caregiver – provide care and comfort for persons together with preserving the dignity of a human being. Communicator – Communication facilitates understanding and collaboration of nursing action with their clients and other members of the health team. Teacher–nurses help the clients learn the state of their well-being and the therapies that…

50 First Dates In the movie 50 First Dates, one of the main characters suffers from the severe condition of anterograde amnesia. The movie is about Henry Roth who is a wildlife veterinarian in Hawaii, meeting Lucy Whitmore a woman who has a short-term memory loss from an auto accident a year earlier. Henry meets…

Social Work became an interest of mine in 1997. A young, pregnant, confused, scared and lost teen I were given a helping hand by a very kind individual, which happened to be a Social Worker at a prenatal clinic. I overwhelmed by her kindness and ability to convince me I had a chance in life…

The field extends many opportunities to be a very important part of the health care team. involves direct patient contact and varied skills and abilities. A nurse has a unique opportunity to ensure that they care for a patient’s comforts and needs, and can make a difference in every patient’s life. Various challenging opportunities are…

Introduction On this time last year, when you enter a book shop or a convenience store, you can easily find an area full of manga with images of little girls, around 11-13 years old, nude or half nude. But now, this kind of manga almost disappeared in Tokyo. This is the result of an act…

Virginia M. Axline (1911-1988) was an American psychologist. She was a student of Carl Rogers (1942), who is the founder of non-directive therapy and today referred as person- centred therapy. Axline developed non-directive play therapy, which applied Carl R Roger’s person-centred therapy principle in play therapy. It based on theory that the child’s behaviours is…

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, there is an escalating recognition for nurses that produce evidences illustrating how nursing endeavours in both clinical and community settings are efficiently improving the health status of patients, decreasing death rates and improving the quality of life not only of patients, but the larger community, as a whole. In most instances, when these…

Nursing has in the last century made a lot of progress thus it has become recognized as a profession as well as an academic discipline. One of these accomplishments was the development, articulation, and testing of various nursing theories. It has been made more meaningful and significant by the theory based practice which has shifted…