Evaluation of healing by gentle touch.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of healing by gentle touch in clients attending The Centre for Complementary Care (CCC) in Eskdale, Cumbria.

Study Design: An evaluation of data collected by questionnaire over 6 years.

Methods: All clients attending the CCC between 1995 and 2001 were invited to participate in this study, and data were collected from 300 subjects with a wide range of ailments who received four treatment sessions within 6 weeks.

Deconstructing nursing from practice to theory.

People often talk about 'basic' nursing care as if it is the simplest thing in the world: it looks so easy that anyone could do it. But there is more to it than meets the eye. We asked three prominent nurses to spend time watching individual nurses going about their business in an attempt to get to the bottom of this thing called nursing care.

The problem of abortion: essentially contested concepts and moral autonomy.

When one thinks about the ethics of abortion, one inevitably thinks about rights, since it is in terms of the concept of rights that much of the debate has been conducted. This is true of overtly feminist as well as non-feminist accounts. Indeed, some early feminist writers--Judith Jarvis Thomson and Mary Ann Warren, for example--employ a model of rights that is indistinguishable, or virtually indistinguishable, from that of their non-feminist counterparts.

Detection or decision errors? Missed lung cancer from the posteroanterior chest radiograph.

A test bank of verified chest radiographs was compiled for visual search experiments to investigate radiology performance in the detection of early lung cancer. A measure of the physical characteristics of the lesions was derived to determine the conspicuity (chi) of the nodules and to investigate possible causes of failed detection. Observer performance was measured by alternate free response operating characteristic (AFROC) methodology and was supplemented with visual search recording.

Evaluation of healing by gentle touch in 35 clients with cancer.

An uncontrolled, preliminary evaluation of healing by gentle touch in clients with cancer was carried out at The Centre for Complementary Care in Eskdale, Cumbria. All clients attending The Centre between 1995 and 2001 were invited to participate. Data were collected from 35 clients with cancer.

Nurse practitioner education: what level?

In the debate about what level of qualification nurse practitioners in the UK should possess, the authors argue that honours degree status is sufficient preparation for clinical practice. However, they also argue that a master's degree should be the standard for nurse practitioners developing highly specialised and advanced roles.

Perceptual and signal detection factors in radiography.

Diagnostic imaging systems (e.g. X-rays and ultrasound) play an important role in medicine.