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Spirit, Art, and Care
<p>In textiles, installations, and interactive performances, I explore how spiritual practice becomes art practice. My experiences as a hospice volunteer, musician, and Buddhist inform my work’s focus on contemplating impermanence as a path to spiritual transformation. Artmaking is a vehicle for …
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Economics of Osteoporotic Fracture Prevention and Care
… a concern brought to light by aging populations and cost pressures on health systems. Central to my PhD is the utilization of health economic research to identify interventions that offer the best value for money, particularly in the Chinese setting. The thesis includes seven chapters. Chapter 1 …
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Hospital and care home nurse perspectives on optimising care for people living with dementia who transfer between hospitals and care homes
… people. Research investigating transitions for care home residents living with dementia is limited, even though such residents often have multi-morbidities and frequently use hospital services. Nurses are key care providers. Yet their perspectives on optimising care for people living with …
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Hospital and care home nurse perspectives on optimising care for people living with dementia who transfer between hospitals and care homes
… people. Research investigating transitions for care home residents living with dementia is limited, even though such residents often have multi-morbidities and frequently use hospital services. Nurses are key care providers. Yet their perspectives on optimising care for people living with …
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A Political Theory of Accessibility and Care for Animals
Care, I argue, is where and how animals most commonly experience political agency as an accessibility issue within their relationships and interactions with humans. Yet animal care is not usually viewed as animal politics, resulting in a failure to critically evaluate the nature of the politics …
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Emotional Labor and Care Delivery: Interviews with Obstetrical Nurses
… culture, the impact of societal forces on work, and the role of emotion in nursing. Audio-recordings of the interviews were analyzed for themes, using grounded theory. Within the culture of OB RNs, the duty of providing safe care was embedded throughout conversations as a duty, a safety …
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Family ties and care for aged parents at home
… the purpose of discovering how families perceive and carry out their responsibilities to their older relatives. Forty-three persons representing up to three generations per family were interviewed. They articulated the meaning of their responsibility to care for the parent, how they learned to be …
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Transgender veterans' experiences with culture and care: a qualitative study
… a phenomenological framework to better understand the experiences of transgender veterans with military culture and VA healthcare. Geertz’s (1973) definitions of culture and social systems was utilized to identify aspects of military culture. Additionally, the minority stress model (Meyer, …
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Targeted Re-Instruction for Hearing Aid Use and Care Skills
… that hearing aid owners cannot successfully use and/or care for their hearing aids (Lupsakko, Kautiainen, & Sulkava 2005; Popelka et al. 1998; Vuorialho, Karinen, & Sorri 2006). The primary purpose of the present study was to evaluate the benefit of identifying specific hearing aid use and care …
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Knowledge and Attitudes of Nurses on Pressure Injury Prevention and Care
… which contribute to pain, infection risk, and increased healthcare utilization, and are considered indicators of quality of care. Knowledge and attitudes toward pressure injuries influence interventions and outcomes. Existing evidence demonstrates that gaps are key factors in assessment, …
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Beyond Utility, Rights, and Care: An Alternative Approach to Global Poverty
… of utilitarianism, human rights, or an ethic of care. While these approaches have their merits, I will argue that they are all insufficient (in various ways) to deal with the problem of global poverty. Given their shortcomings, a new approach is needed. My alternative ethical approach contains …
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Resisting and Transforming: Pastoral Theology and Care of Korean Military Wives
… have been symbolized as "dirty," "nothing," and "evil" by Koreans, Korean Americans, and their American families. They also experience same level of oppression and discrimination within Korean American congregations. In Korea, the women suffered poverty, sexual violence, and Confucian gender …
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Reason and care: constructing an inclusive moral theory for civic education
… (in)compatibility of rational moral philosophy and caring theory. My thesis argues and demonstrates that by unifying Noddings’ caring theory with ethic(s) of care presented by scholars from social and political science, in both practice and relational ground, the new caring theory not only is …
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Consumer satisfaction, preferences and care procedures for selected women's sleepwear fabrics
… investigate consumer satisfaction, preferences, and care procedures of selected nightgown fabrics. Additionally, demographic information was obtained to characterize the sample. The data were provided by 54 females in Delaware, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and …
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Beliefs about Toddler and Care: A New Measure for Infant Toddler Teachers
… however some of the settings in which infants and toddlers are learning and developing (i.e., child care) have been found to be of despairingly low to mediocre quality, with teacher qualifications also being minimal (Burchinal, Roberts, Nabors, & Bryant, 1996; Howes, Whitebook, & Phillips, …
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The bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: health, disease, trauma, and care
… reported from Early Bronze Age contexts in Ireland since the 19th century. With a relative lack of settlement sites, the mortuary contexts of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland have been the focus for many studies, especially those interested in social structure and status. Despite this importance …
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