Showing papers by "Saint Anselm College published in 1993"
TL;DR: In this article, the configuration space of polygonal knots is divided into manifolds for each knot type by infinitely high potential walls, which are invariants of the knot type.
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TL;DR: Nursing faculty designed teaching strategies to help students meet the challenge of interacting with this age group in positive ways, and students were assisted to move beyond stereotypical attitudes to empathetic and effective relationships.
Abstract: The quality of nursing care depends in large part on accurate communication between nurse and client. More and more, nurses will care for adults in every facet of the health care system. This article describes how nursing faculty designed teaching strategies to help students meet the challenge of interacting with this age group in positive ways. Students were assistanced to move beyond stereotypical attitudes to empathetic and effective relationships.
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TL;DR: With the benefit of five years of federal funding, the authors share their experience of integrating content relative to the older adult into the nursing curriculum.
Abstract: Many departments of nursing across the country are making concerted efforts to integrate gerontological nursing concepts into their curriculum. In general, many of these faculty members do not have advanced education in gerontology and, therefore, are unclear as to which concepts are vital in educating the generalist nurse. This, couple with the question of how to teach these concepts, leaves faculty wanting advice and direction. With the benefit of five years of federal funding, the authors share their experience of integrating content relative to the older adult into the nursing curriculum.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that two wrongs are sometimes better than one is a conclusion which follows both from event-centered and agent-centered theories of ethics, and that sometimes we ought to do two different kinds of wrongs rather than just one.
Abstract: The observation that human beings routinely violate their duties is a commonplace. Because we violate our duties, we expect an adequate moral theory to inform us what we ought to do after doing so. Some of these requirements are well-known, such as those having to do with confession, restitution, reparation, blame, repentance, and punishment. We might lump all these together under the general heading of morally good responses to violated duties. But because human beings routinely violate their duties, they also fail to respond in morally good ways to the duties they have violated. So, an adequate moral theory must explain not only our absolute duties, but also what we ought to do when we refuse to fulfill absolute duties. It should tell us what we comparatively ought to do. For example, the moral theory should tell us that we ought at least to restrict our wrongdoing whenever we are determined to act wrongly, such as, "terrorists ought to use less destructive explosives as opposed to more destructive ones." Once we admit a place for such comparative ought-talk, we find, oddly enough, that sometimes we ought to do two wrongs rather than just one because two wrongs are better than one. I will show that two wrongs are sometimes better than one is a conclusion which follows both from eventcentered and agent-centered theories of ethics. A couple of cases of two wrongs being better than one readily come to mind, but I distinguish them from the cases that I am interested in here. Two wrongs are better than one when, for example, you set your watch wrong, misread it, and, because of compensating errors, nonetheless wind up making an appointment that you have promised to keep. This is not the kind of example of two wrongs being better than one that I am concerned with. Setting a watch incorrectly or misreading it are not moral wrongs, and moral wrongs are under consideration. Two wrongs also can be better than