Major Diagnostic category a group of similar diagnosis-related groups, such as all those affecting a given organ system of the body. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights...
Heron's Six Categories of Intervention serve as a framework for organisations to solve problems with the execution of certain tasks in a workplace.
Since then, many scholars have begun to study the cosupport and related theories (see [16,17,18,19]). Motivated by these studies, the aim of this paper is to study the invariants (see Definitions 1 and 2) width R ( a , X ) = inf { inf C Λ V ( a ) X | C ∈ T c }...
comparing theories and doctrines of every degree of similarity and dissimilarity of structure; when, finally, we reflect that he seldom deals with a single idea at a tune, but is for the most part engaged in wielding organized hosts of them, as a general wields at once the division of an...
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick. — Florence Nightingale Notes on Nursing: What it is and what ...
but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation accumulated, phantoms of the imagination were exorcised, idols of the cave were shattered, trustworthy materials were obtained for logical treatment, and hypotheses by long and careful trial were converted into theories....
So it was that we owe to the weakness of the human mind one of the most delicate and ingenious of mathematical theories, the science of chance or probability. — Pierre-Simon Laplace 'Recherches, 1º, sur l'Intégration des Équations Différentielles aux Différences Finies, et sur leur...
to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home. — Florence Nightingale In 'Nursing of the Sick' paper, collected in Hospitals, Dispensaries and Nursing: ...
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. Remember he is face to face with his enemy all the time. — Florence Nightingale In Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not (1860), 53. ...
In 'The Effect of New Orogenetic Theories Upon Ideas of the Tectonics of the Canadian Shield', collected in Royal Society of Canada, Special Publication No. 4, The Tectonics of the Canadian Shield (1962), 135-138. As quoted and cited in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...