A review of the use and clinical effectiveness of touch as a nursing intervention Madeline Gleesona‚ Fiona Timminsb‚ ‚ a St. Patricks Hospital‚ Dublin b Trinity College‚ Dublin Available online 13 March 2005 summary The objective of this literature review is to explore the use and effectiveness of touch as a distinct aspect of nurse patient communication. Nurses’ use of touch‚ the impact of touch and the experiences of touch are explored. Touching is a regarded as a special type of non-verbal
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Effects of Technology in Our Lives The evolution of technology has dramatically changed society. An endless number of people all over the world use and benefit from modern technology‚ and the tremendous opportunities it provides play a significant role in almost all fields of human life. Technology has simplified the access to many necessary tools people need in education‚ industry‚ medicine‚ communication‚ transportation‚ and so on. However‚ excessive usage of technology has its drawbacks
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Human Rights or Technology? In today’s highly technological world everyone wants the latest and greatest gizmo on the market. Companies like Apple‚ want to make as much money as possible. With both Apple and society being held responsible for the outrageous working conditions in the factories in China workers can be treated more like people. In the article “In China‚ Human Costs are Built into an iPad‚” Charles Duhigg and David Barboza argue that Apple and society are responsible for the repugnant
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In a world where science and technology is the sole purpose of human’s existence is something we would not like to contemplate. Throughout the centuries that humans had existed‚ we had advanced from fashioning simple tools out of stones and marbles to today‚ where we had attained a feating technological advancements that what seems like an eternity to build a living space for all previously in the past would take only a few weeks now. One of the greatest theoretical physicist during the modern
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In the poems ‘Welfare baby’‚ written by Cheryl Albury and ‘Barefoot Baby’‚ written by J.L.Mayson the poets arouse sympathy for the characters in them. The use of many techniques depicts the sympathetic theme throughout the poems. Both poems are about young children and the titles of each portray a sense of negativity to the readers. In ‘Welfare baby’ albury starts off by describing the baby as ‘defenseless’‚ which shows how he is unable to help or defend himself. This may give the reader a sad
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Sterling Thomas 4/3/13 Article Title: The Power of Touch This article is self-explanatory. It is about the Power of Touch and the effects it has on a variety of things. We have five senses; Smell‚ Taste‚ Hearing‚ Sight and alas Touch. Everything on this planet communicates somehow and this article emphasizes the significance of Touch. In the article that Touch is the first sense we acquire and the secret weapon in many a successful relationship (Chillot).. I found this article very intriguing
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has brought distant places closer‚ simplified our work and saved human effort to an incredible degree. Computers have made the world a smaller‚ simpler‚ and better place‚ while transforming the way our society interacts‚ evolves and lives. But not everyone thinks so. There is actually a belief that computers are destroying our world. They believe that computers make us weaker in the future as we become over reliant on technology and might be completely helpless without it. Others against computers
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sensory receptors of the skin are concerned with at least five different senses: pain‚ heat‚ cold‚ touch‚ and pressure. The five are usually grouped together as the single sense of touch in the classification of the five senses of the whole human body. The sensory receptors vary greatly in terms of structure. For example‚ while pain receptors are simply unmyelinated terminal branches of neurons‚ touch receptors form neuronal fiber nets around the base of hairs and deep pressure receptors consist
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The Power of Touch Every human has eight distinct emotions -- anger‚ fear‚ disgust‚ love‚ gratitude‚ sympathy‚ happiness‚ and sadness. All these emotions are displayed and given if various ways. Most often they are verbally communicated from person to person. This article talks about how these emotions are communicated non-verbally through touch. The article starts out with a story from a subway train. It talks about a child being comforted by his mother through a simple squeeze of the hand and
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