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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"healing environment"”.
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Creating a Healing Environment: Strategies Christian Nurses Use
… metaparadigm concepts of nurse, person, environment, and health are the conceptual building blocks which provide direction to nursing research and knowledge development (Fawcett & Desnato-Madeya, 2013). Interaction of person, nurse and environment facilitate optimal outcomes yet, there …
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Characteristics of a healing environment as described by expert nurses who practice within the conceptual framework of Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings: A qualitative study\r\n
… to identify and describe characteristics of a healing environment from a nursing perspective. This qualitative study was conducted using an interpretive descriptive method consistent with a naturalistic inquiry model. A purposeful sample of 9 expert nurses who practice within the conceptual …
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On the environmental factors that alleviate relocation stress syndrome in residents of long-term care facilities
… occurs when a senior is moved from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar environment. The shock of the transition causes medical conditions to worsen, which can result in serious illness, possibly death. "Moving to a nursing home entails a complete lifestyle change, the trauma of which is …
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The Gress Project: a threshold thesis
… a mental health recovery center - a place of healing and reactivation. The spectrum of mental health states one experiences throughout the healing process is acknowledged and considered holistically. The movement between states is studied in parallel with spatial issues of threshold: pause, …
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Biophilic design: Creating biophilic healing spaces
… space are spaces that are meant for the healing; it is important to create an environment which helps to facilitate the healing in these places. In theory, the concept of biophilia has proven to improve the well-being of the occupant in any built spaces. This study focuses on …
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Architecture and Rehabilitation: How Architecture can be Rehabilitative for its Patients, for its City
… with three goals in mind: to provide a safe and healing environment tailored specifically to the needs of the patients; to provide a positive working environment for the doctors, nurses, and staff who care for the patients; to provide a space for the public to find healing of their own. Patient …
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Solace From Space
… if you are living or working in an urban environment. The expansion of urbanism and decrease of green space across the country only furthers the inaccessibility someone might face if they seek nature as their destination to destress. There needs to be a more accessible way to alleviate the …
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Improving religious organizations' effectiveness with battered women: advice from victim advocates
… wife battering and by creating a more accepting, healing environment within their faith community. Next, those who are not trained to counsel individuals involved in wife battering need to learn to refer them to community agencies that are better prepared to help victims and their batterers. …
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Adaptive Healing: Exploring therapeutic architecture and the integration of addiction rehabilitation into the Cape Flats, Mitchells Plain
… in one of the most notorious, unhealthy urban environments in the Western Cape, Mitchells Plain. This will demonstrate that a healing environment can be achieved in any context, urban or rural. A rehabilitation centre that engages with its surrounding community, fostering various levels of …
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Controlled growth factor delivery from biodegradable hydrogel scaffolds for articular cartilage repair
… presence of collagenase. Furthermore, in this environment, microparticle loading and crosslinking extent were shown to influence the rates of TGF-beta1 release and composite degradation. When utilized in the repair of rabbit osteochondral defects, OPF scaffolds were shown to undergo …
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Effects of Keratin Biomaterial Therapeutics on Cellular and Inflammatory Mechanisms in Injury and Disease Models
… and promoting an anti-inflammatory/wound healing environment. This work seeks to build on previous research by investigating the ability of low and high molecular weight keratins to augment anti-inflammatory primary macrophage phenotypes and examining the influence of keratin biomaterials …
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Re-thinking the possibility of the urban roof space
… recreation , socializing and even for healing. Today, in the urban context it is difficult to find spare spaces that can be actively used by people; most public squares focus on improving the micro-economy, leaving almost no space for recreation. Also, within the urban context many …
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Battling Bacteria: Characterizing the NOD-Like Receptor (NLR) Immune Response to <i>Brucella abortus</i> and <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i> in Host-pathogen Interactions
… shift macrophages toward a more favorable wound-healing environment for arthritis resolution. Ultimately, this work emphasizes the importance of balance in NLR signaling, which occurs within NLRs and from crosstalk with other inflammatory pathways. Further, NLR signaling is highly multifaceted …
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Diospi Suyana Building Hope in the Andes
… empathy of architecture with the users and the environment is a key to provide healing. For that reason, the architecture tends to create more than a building; it also creates it's own spirit. This project is a Cancer Treatment Center located in the Andes of Peru, which purpose is to response to …
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Comparative analysis of transcriptome of fracture healing under normal and hypophosphatemic conditions
Phosphate deficiency delays bone healing by disrupting various cellular and molecular processes involved in bone regeneration. This transcriptomic analysis investigates the intricate relationship between environmental effects of phosphate deficiency on the time course of fracture healing within the …
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Healed. Womxn. Empowered.: creating healing spaces for women in places of conflict in Nyanga
… in relation to the world. There is a need for healing spaces for womxn in South Africa. Spaces that make women feel safe (physically and mentally) and empowered. The current healing spaces are mostly found in private clinics/hospitals patient-use (private space) and they are usually focused …