Biomedical subjects
P R Underwood
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The competency quagmire: clarification of the nursing perspective concerning the issues of competence and informed consent.
Selected issues involved in informed consent and the patient's competence to give it are examined. A discussion of tests of competence reveals some of the problems encountered in using them. There are differences in medical and nursing functions and responsibilities in the informed consent process. One nursing framework, self care, is used to discuss whether informed consent should be obtained from patients when they receive specific nursing care.
The staff nurse as primary therapist: a pilot study.
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Communication through role playing.
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Clutter, crowding, chaos and therapy on a youth drug unit.
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A consultation analysis of learned helplessness at "city hospital".
It is known variously as "reality shock," bureaucratic-professional conflict, institutionalization, and even oppression. Whatever one calls it, however, the phenomenon described and conceptualized as "learned helplessness" by nurse-author Karen Malcomson is a vexing, trying, and familiar one to any clinician who has attempted to bring about change in a complex institution.