BACKGROUND Pain assessment in persons with dementia is well known as a challenging issue to professional caregivers, because of these patients´ difficulties in verbalising pain problems. Within municipal dementia care in Sweden, pain assessment has become problematic for registered nurses, as they have entered a new role in their nursing profession, from being clinical practitioners to becoming...

Nursing theories are developed to provide a connecting frame work which focus on nursing practice. Dorothy Orem’s SelfCare Deficit Theory and Sister Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model are grand theories; both developed these to enhance nursing practice and education. Orem Model emphasizes on the individuals demands of self care which the nurse can accomplish through certain actions to promote heal...

Wilfrid Sellars is usually read as claiming that only the unobservable, theoretical objects which science would postulate at ideal end of inquiry are real. Against this, Willem deVries has suggested we can develop a notion practical reality in context Sellars's philosophy pertain primarily to commonsense objects. I use deVries's suggestion foil clarify own commitments about practical. show not ...

nowadays, access to reliable information has become an essential factor leading to success in business. in this regard, adequate security of information and systems that process it is critical to the operation of all organizations. therefore organizations must understand and improve the current status of their information security in order to ensure business continuity and increase rate of retu...

the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...