Advocating for HIT That Captures Nursing Process

Advocating for nurses and nursing.

Every nurse has the opportunity to make a positive impact on the profession through day-to-day advocacy for nurses and the nursing profession. In this article the author defines advocacy; describes advocacy skills every nurse can employ to advocate for a safe and healthy work environment; and explains how nurses can advocate for nursing as part of their daily activity whether they are point-of-...

Human Postural Model That Captures Rotational Inertia

INTRODUCTION Inverted pendulum models have been very beneficial for the modeling and analysis of human gait and balance [Kuo, 2007]. These reduced models allow us to ignore the movements of the individual limbs, and instead, focus on two important points -the center of pressure (CoP) and the center of mass (CoM) -and the lean line that connects the two points. A limitation of the existing reduc...

Advocating for family medicine.

Advocating for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity: A Call to Action for Nursing

In this article the authors provide a background for the discussion of childhood obesity, examine factors contributing to overweight and obesity in children, review the literature describing interventions and prevention strategies for childhood overweight, and describe nursing skills to prevent childhood obesity. The literature supports a familyfocused approach to influencing dietary habits of ...

Advocating for the advocate.

In 1849, German pathologist Rudolf Virchow, regarded as the father of modern pathology, released a report that stunned the medical establishment. His report, commissioned by the Prussian government to investigate a typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia, a poor rural area of ethnic Poles, advocated 4 “radical” recommendations: the introduction of Polish as an official language, democratic self-govern...