To... Comfort the afflicted‚ afflict the Comfortable A Selected Critical Annotated Bibliography of Postmodern Thought and Nursing By C. E. Betts Professor of Nursing Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton‚ Ontario‚ Canada © 2007 – Granted we want truth: why not rather untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? – The problem of the value of truth stepped before us – or was it we who stepped before this problem? – (Nietzsche‚ 1990‚ p. 33) Introduction: Although most agree
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Two paintings on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are‚ The Abduction of the Sabine Women‚ 1633-1634‚ by Nicolas Poussin and A Hunting Scene‚ 1462-1522‚ by Piero Di Cosimo. Both are early European works‚ one from France and the other from Italy. These portraits have many related aspects‚ and similar subject matters. Although this is true‚ the executions of the paintings diverge drastically. The content of both artworks have to do with the inhabitants of the towns reactions to major turmoil
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you because I know you would ask me for all the year12 assessments at the end of the year also this will help you with the topic‚ identity which is part of belonging. First I will give you an idea of what belonging is. Belonging is a sense of comfort and contentment when an individual gains an understanding of themselves in relation to others. However when individual is excluded from a group or community is call alienation and rejection. It is important for one to belong; it can prevent alienation
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Katharine Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kelly Ferreira Summer‚ 2004. In the early part of the 20th century‚ comfort was the central goal of nursing and medicine. Comfort was the nurse’s first consideration. A "good nurse" made patients comfortable. In the early 1900’s‚ textbooks emphasized the role of a health care provider in assuring emotional and physical comfort and in adjusting the patient’s environment. For example‚ in 1926‚ Harmer advocated that nursing care be
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The Fridge: A Blessing‚ or an Illusion of comfort? Before the age of the fridge‚ leftovers during the summer usually meant a waste of money and food‚ no matter how much was left over. After the fridge was invented‚ people who could afford such a device knew they were given a blessing that would not only save their money‚ but also cause them less stress- or at least they thought so. Does the fridge really give us all that we believe it provides? Or is the fridge just an illusion reflecting what
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Final Paper in Comfort Theory Ruben Perez NGR 5110 July 15th‚ 2013. Prof. Dr. Daniel Little Nursing Scenario I chose this scenario which is appropriate for the application of Kolcaba’s Comfort theory: You are a nurse on an inpatient oncology unit. Your patient is a 72-year-old competent male who has been told his cancer is terminal and that further treatment is unlikely to have any benefit. He accepts that and would like to explore hospice. However‚ his two adult children insist that he
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Comfort Care Theory Nightingale described comfort as first duty of nurses. Since then comfort theory is flourishing in nursing and medical field. The first article on comfort theory was published in 1994 (Oliveira‚ 2013). Katharine Kolcaba first published her book on comfort care in 2003. This theory has been published and accepted at many health care authorities (Kolcaba & Dimarco‚ 2005). Kolcaba defined comfort as “the immediate state of being strengthen through having the human needs for relief
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Short Stories By Megan Lucas The stories in the book‚ Transitions: Half a Century of South African Short Stories‚ interrogate platitudes and cliché’s. This is why‚ in these‚ stories‚ emphasis falls on the protagonists who outgrow ideological comfort zones. (Unknown. ENN311M/101) This statement claims that the main characters in the stories in Transitions go through certain changes that force them to let go of their ideologies and that it is apparent in the dialogue. This essay will discuss the
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Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone Communications break boundaries and bring connections between people. In “Some Friends and I Started Talking: Conversation and Social Change‚” Margaret J. Wheatley describes communication as “a timeless and reliable way for humans to think together” (312). As human‚ communication is an essential need for everyday survival. It also brings people closer as they have a better understanding of each other through communication. For many cases‚ it takes people a lot
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In The Comfort of Things‚ Daniel Miller (2005) compiled thirty case studies derived from ethnographic observation of a pseudo-random street in South London. Each chapter takes the form of a vignette‚ called a ‘portrait’ (Miller‚ 2005‚ p.5)‚ that tells the story of a different person living on the street. Despite each portrait telling a discrete narrative‚ the text as a whole emphasizes the significance of material culture in conducting ethnography. During the study‚ Miller (2005) and his research
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