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Many of the world’s religions encourage benevolence, but it was the Christians value of “love thy neighbor as thyself” that had a significant impact on the development if Western nursing. The principle of caring was established with Christ’s parable of the Good Samaritan providing care for a tired and injured stranger. Converts to Christianity during [...]

Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests.
The findings are from a study that tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years, and they highlight yet another reason to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
Overall, 314 people [...]

The Liberal Democrats have been attacked for using a party employee to pose as a nurse on an election leaflet.
The leaflet, promoting Cardiff North candidate John Dixon, shows him talking to a woman in nurse’s uniform.
But the identity of the ‘nurse’ has been revealed as a researcher for the Liberal Democrat AM Mick Bates.
The Lib [...]

Person/Client: A whole, complete, and independent being who has 14  fundamental needs to breathe, eat and drink, eliminate, move and maintain posture, sleep and rest, dress and undress, maintain body temperature, keep clean, avoid danger, communicate, worship, work, play and learn.
Environment: The aggregate of the external conditions and influences affecting the [...]

Nightingale’s Environmental Theory
Florence Nightingale, the “mother of modern nursing,” considered nursing to be a religious calling to be fulfilled only by women. Her theory focused on the environment, although this term never appeared in her writings. She linked health with five environmental factors: (1) pure or fresh air (2) pure water [...]

Rogers’s Science of Unitary Human Beings
Martha Rogers first presented her theory of unitary human beings in 1970. She views the person as an irreducible whole, the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Whole is differentiated from holistic, the latter often being used to mean only the sum of [...]

Roy’s Adaptation Model
Sister Callista Roy’s adaptation model, originating in 1970, is widely used by nurse educators, researchers, and practitioners. Roy focuses on the individual as a biopsychosocial adaptive system. Both the individual and the environment are sources of stimuli that require modification to promote adaptation, an ongoing purposive response. Adaptive [...]

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined as the most severe form of a continuum of illnesses associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. HIV belongs to a group of viruses known as retroviruses. These viruses carry their genetic material in the form of ribonucleic acid (RNA) rather than deoxyribonucleic acid [...]

I. INTRODUCTION
Pregnancy is one of the miracles of life. It is so amazing how a creature emerges from another creature, quite similar in genetic make-up but a totally different individual with a unique personality and a distinct characteristic. A creature undergoes pain in giving life to another creature which only [...]

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