What does happiness mean to you? According to the dictionary happiness means “possessing or enjoying pleasure or good”. . As the great Aristotle said‚ “Happiness depends upon ourselves. ”People can feel many types of happiness in many different ways. People find happiness in themselves‚ others‚ and materialist things. Everyone expresses their happiness in different ways and actions. Being happy with yourself is the most important of the three. Being happy with yourself varies with each person. Some
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the brain are separated and can no longer communicate. To test this Gazzaniga and Sperry had run different experiments to test the visual‚ tactile‚ and auditory abilities of split-brain patients who had surgically severed the corpus callosum which allowed for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate. To test their visual abilities patients had sat in front of a board with a row of lights on it that ran across it horizontally. The lights then lit up across both visual fields while the patient
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Knowing Your Audience Your Name BCOM/275 Knowing Your Audience On August 5‚ 2010‚ in Chile there was a cave-in in a little copper mine that trapped thirty-three miners three hundred meters underground with limited food‚ water‚ and oxygen. No one knew for certain whether or not the miners had survived the cave-in and if they had if they would survive long enough to be rescued. Four days after the cave-in‚ with rescue crews working around the clock‚ it was still unknown whether or
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The Use of Ways of Knowing in a Clinical Scenario Fabiola Benoit Saint Joseph’s College Abstract The use of ways of knowing is assumed to be a valid and necessary strategy in providing adequate care in the nursing field. Carper has developed four ways of knowing that has become essential in a nurses every day practice. Carper’s four fundamental patterns of knowing are defined as empirical‚ ethical‚ personal and aesthetic. Empirical knowledge is defined as the science of nursing. Aesthetic knowledge
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help to make their lives‚ a life worth knowing. They could be a humanitarian‚ soldiers‚ firefighters‚ donate money to charity‚ and or they just generally are an amazing person & much more. Someone who has a life worth knowing is basically hero/heroine and a leader combined. A hero is a person‚ who is admired for courage or noble qualities & a leader is a person followed by others. I choose Ellen DeGeneres because I believe Ellen is a life worth knowing. Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born January
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Advanced Roles & Ways of Knowing An Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is described as a registered nurse with a graduate level education in nursing from an accredited college or university. Over the years‚ the APN has become a vital part of the healthcare team providing affordable‚ advanced care both in and out of the hospital setting. An APN has extended his/her nursing skills by not only past and present experiences but also by research. It is crucial for an APN to be grounded in research and
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I have integrated the patterns of knowing in making ethical decisions by reconciling the praxis of nursing (which involves reflecting about the problem and then taking action to positively solve the problem for the benefit of all) with the four other patterns of knowing (ethics‚ empiric‚ personal knowing and aesthetics). From personal experience (personal knowing) as a Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse‚ patients with large abdominal wounds on Negative pressure wound therapy also undergo serial surgical
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Between Pronunciation Ability and Listening Ability of Employees in PT. PGN Area Batam Rika Purnama Sari Language involves a duality of patterning‚ as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand‚ there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other‚ there are patterns that relate to hoe meanings are organized. Although language use dealing with patterns at both levels‚ it often seems as though the two are studied in relative isolation of one another. So‚ what is
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Reason is a way of knowing in which we construct meanings together through modifying and improving individual opinions and ideas‚ in order to reach a plausible or logical conclusion. In other words‚ reason is the ability to help people decide what is true and what is not. Most of the time‚ reason is more commonly related to math and science subjects‚ where logic is put into place in order to obtain logical validity and justify claims. Through observations and experiments‚ we can prove‚ within reason
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that ultimately determines the kind of knowledge the field aims to develop as well as the manner in which that knowledge is to be organized‚ tested and applied” (Carper‚ 1978). It is Barbara Carper who developed the four fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing and they are; empirics‚ esthetics‚ personal knowledge and ethics (Carper‚ 1978). In this paper I will provide clinical interventions that I have used for my patients and explain how they are relevant. Empirics; the science of nursing
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