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  2. Nurse scheduling problem - Wikipedia

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    A nurse does not work the day shift, night shift and late night shift on the same day (i.e. no 24-hour duties). A nurse may go on a holiday and will not work shifts during this time. A nurse does not do a late night shift followed by a day shift the next day. Two nurses dislike each other and thus cannot work on the same shift because of that.

  3. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    The beginning of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of the foundational texts of the discipline. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of human ...

  4. A series and B series - Wikipedia

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    In the first mode, events are ordered as future, present, and past.Futurity and pastness allow of degrees, while the present does not. When we speak of time in this way, we are speaking in terms of a series of positions which run from the remote past through the recent past to the present, and from the present through the near future all the way to the remote future.

  5. Nightingale's environmental theory - Wikipedia

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    She stated in her nursing notes that nursing "is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery" (Nightingale 1860/1969), [2] that it involves the nurse's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient's health, and that external factors associated with the patient's surroundings affect life or biologic ...

  6. Nursing Times - Wikipedia

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    Nursing Times editor John Gilbert said: ‘The scandal of nurses leaving the profession in pain and with their lives and careers in tatters must end.’ Nursing Times launched Open Learning in 1991, the distance learning package for enrolled nurse conversion. Another high-profile campaign was 1995’s ‘Nursing Times Says Nurses Need 3% Pay Up ...

  7. Nursing theory - Wikipedia

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    Nursing theory is defined as "a creative and conscientious structuring of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena". [1] Through systematic inquiry, whether in nursing research or practice, nurses are able to develop knowledge relevant to improving the care of patients.

  8. Nursing ethics - Wikipedia

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    Although much of nursing ethics can appear similar to medical ethics, there are some factors that differentiate it. Breier-Mackie [5] suggests that nurses' focus on care and nurture, rather than cure of illness, results in a distinctive ethics. Furthermore, nursing ethics emphasizes the ethics of everyday practice rather than moral dilemmas. [2]

  9. Metapsychology - Wikipedia

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    The structural point of view: the psyche consists of configurations of psychological processes which operate in different ways and reveal different rates of change - the ego, the id, and the superego; The genetic point of view: the origins - or "genesis" - of psychological processes can be found in developmentally previous psychological processes