Thoughts on Nursing

The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Dysfunctional Career Thoughts in Nursing Students

Background & aim: Nurses constitute the largest group of health care providers and play an important role in the quality of patient care. Career Thoughts is one of the most important factors that play a special role in nursing job performance. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based Cognitive therapy on dysfunctional career thoughts in nursing ...

Thoughts on incivility: student and faculty perceptions of uncivil behavior in nursing education.

Faculty members complain about the rise of uncivil behavior in their students, and students voice similar complaints about faculty. Using an interpretive qualitative method for research, this study examined student and faculty perceptions of incivility in nursing education, possible causes of incivility, and potential remedies. Narrative analysis yielded the following categories: in-class disru...

[Thoughts on the preparation of nursing graduate students for undergraduate teaching].

It is noticeable the greater focus on scientific production in Graduate courses compared to the attention given to the preparation for teaching practices. This is a relevant issue considering the importance of having Masters and Doctors also prepared to form professionals in their area. This article discusses some aspects of the preparation of Graduate level students enrolled in the Teaching Im...

Thoughts on Social Design

Thoughts on the Bulletin.

Because daguerreotype photographs are usually reversed laterally from actuality, images of W.T.G. Morton falsely suggest that he sometimes changed the side of the part in his hair. Because of daguerreotype image reversal, a statue of Apollo in the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital appears to have been moved for the 50th anniversary of Ether Day. Ether anesthesia was announced in ...