Response-Able to the Incomprehensible
Response-Able to the Incomprehensible

Author: Edgar K. DeJean

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2013-11-25

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1480803707

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For more than seventy years, author Edgar K. DeJean practiced a conditioned belief system in the form of Orthodox Presbyterianism. Now, in the twenty-first century, he explains how his searching and exploring of spirituality and religion has led him to a more candid belief system that is casual, flexible, and logicalas opposed to one that is conditioned, cultural, rigid, and traditional. In Response-Able to the Incomprehensible, he delves into his mission, which centers on the possibilities within being response-able to the incomprehensible metaphysical energy through spirituality and compassion. Through a series of short essays originally created as blog posts, he describes this belief system he deems more appropriate and responsive to todays times. While studying the core beliefs and traditions of Christianity, DeJean focuses on explaining and defining the statement of purpose: be spiritualdo compassion. Response-Able to the Incomprehensible discusses the search for spirituality in everyday life and appraises and tests existing traditions and compassion in that same sphere.

A Leap to Everyday Spirituality
A Leap to Everyday Spirituality

Author: Edgar K. DeJean

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2011-12-19

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1467870579

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This book is directed toward fulfilling the wisdom of Yogi Berra as stated in the Preface of the book: You got to be very careful if you dont know Where youre going, because you might not get there. There are some readers whose traditional bents may lead them to question the direction(s) the book is taking. The author concedes this but hopes that his integrity of purpose (where hes going) will lead to consideration as opposed to consternation. Here, in no rigid linear sequence, are some (not all) of the areas the book explores. The primate as animal evolved to become the primate as human, first through an awareness of compassion (responsible to species) and later through an awareness of religion (response-able to God). Why, then, has the human forsaken the value and purposefulness of compassion that permitted humanity to evolve and survive, and has become obsessed with taking religious beliefs too seriously (e.g. religious chaos, religious wars)? In keeping with Yogi Berras advice the book was given a sense of direction. First it would explore examples of taking life too seriously. Then expand to observations of taking ones beliefs too seriously followed by taking religion too seriously (religiosity) and finally arrive at taking theology inappropriately where the author suggests that traditionalism and theism have brought Christianity today. The book offers the thought that two essential human capabilities within the purpose for existence are underutilized by humanity: compassion and spirituality. It concludes with the question: Could the intentional utilization of these two possibilities as capabilities support the morphing of Christianity? This book (A Leap to Everyday Spirituality, In the Eternal Atmosphere of Possibilities) is a candid invitation to readers to explore their beliefs, not a request to agree with the author.

A Belief System from Beyond the Box
A Belief System from Beyond the Box

Author: Edgar K. Dejean

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 143896787X

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As I go back to the first blog that I released into cyberspace, I discover that the date was May 27, 2005 and the title was, It's Beyond Me. As I scan forward through all the postings I find that two major themes have developed synergistically: 1. That segment of the formal religious establishment described loosely by the term church, is under stress. The extreme nature of this stress is demonstrated by the current, often-quoted, fearsome phrase - "The Church must change or it will die." 2. The most frequently offered response to this dilemma is the admonition, "We must think beyond the box." Pragmatism indicates that: "The Church must change or it will die," phrase is hopelessly destructive. Might this prediction be more approachable if rephrased as? "The Church must morph, then survive." Survival indicates that it is essential that we determine what it is in the box that we must think beyond. What should be changed so that our belief systems can morph, thus equipping the church to morph to survival? It is my conclusion that my past conceptualizations of God, my core beliefs, have been formed by inhibiting Climates of Cultures, deposited in the box over the ages in an attempt to make God comprehensible. It is my emerging discovery that when we think beyond the box we recognize the Atmosphere of Possibilities, the Incomprehensible God of the Universe. Though our core beliefs may differ we all should be encouraged to hold beliefs that give us the joy of being response-able to Incomprehensible God, the Atmosphere of Possibilities, and responsible to/with comprehensible humanity, including ourselves.

Nurses! Test Yourself In Clinical Skills
Nurses! Test Yourself In Clinical Skills

Author: Traynor, Marian

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0335244831

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This book is organised into chapters that address different groups of skills, and includes chapters on: Infection control, Respiratory Skills, Cardiovascular Skills, Neuro assessment skills, Early Warning Scores (observations) and Drug Administration. The book can be used both for self-testing and more constructive revision.

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Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published:

Total Pages: 899

ISBN-13: 0323239617

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Dentist on the Ward
Dentist on the Ward

Author: Andrew Sadler

Publisher: Andrew Sadler

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1844266532

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An introduction to the general hospital for students and foundation trainees in dental, oral & maxillofacial surgery.

Practices in Children's Nursing E-Book
Practices in Children's Nursing E-Book

Author: Ethel Trigg

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0702044458

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The skills required by children's nurses are many and varied, and are undertaken in a variety of settings. Sick children are cared for at home, in children's units and hospitals, and sometimes in adult wards. In addition, children with disabilities may need nursing care while at special schools or in residential settings. This book provides a clinical manual of common practices. Each practice is research-based and presented in a common format which covers: - Objectives - Rationale - Factors to note - Guidelines - Positioning - Equipment - Method - Special observations and possible complications - References and further reading The guidelines have been written specifically for children's nursing by contributors from well-known children's units. They are not simply adaptations from adult practices and therefore recognise the unique differences between adult and children's nursing. The introductory section covers common concepts and infection control. There is also a chapter on complementary therapies and an appendix on the use of play as a distraction. All hospital and community nurses dealing with children, whether at home, in specialised units or in community settings, will find the book of great practical help. - The common format of each practice makes the book easy to use and refer to in a clinical setting. - Each practice is based on the latest research to ensure it is evidence-based and up to date - Introductory chapters cover issues common to all practices to make the book easier to use. - The appendix on play reinforces its common usage as a distraction technique - A chapter on complementary therapies explains these as they are becoming more widespread - All practices have been reviewed by regional centres to avoid parochialism - Content reorganised to reflect the Essential Skills Clusters from the NMC - New chapter on communicating with children - All chapters updated to reflect the current evidence base

The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures

Author: Lisa Dougherty

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13: 111874666X

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The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has been the number one choice for nurses since it first published, over 30 years ago. One of the world's most popular books on clinical skills and procedures, it provides detailed procedure guidelines based on the latest research findings and expert clinical advice, enabling nurses and students to deliver clinically effective patient-focused care. The ninth edition of this essential, definitive guide, written especially for pre-registration nursing students, now includes a range of new learning features throughout each chapter that have been designed to support student nurses to support learning in clinical practice. Providing essential information on over 200 procedures, this manual contains all the skills and changes in practice that reflect modern acute nursing care.

Incomprehensible Certainty
Incomprehensible Certainty

Author: Thomas Pfau

Publisher:

Published: 2022-06

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9780268202484

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Thomas Pfau's study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the word "image" (eikōn) not only as the essential medium of art and literature but as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our "lifeworld," Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato's later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image (eikōn) as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function, namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, Cézanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau's previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensive Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.

Landmark Papers in Neurosurgery
Landmark Papers in Neurosurgery

Author: Reuben D. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0199674027

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Evidence-based medicine is a concept that has come to the fore in the past few years. Clinicians are increasingly encouraged to practise patient management based on available evidence in the scientific literature. For example, new pharmacological therapies are only used when large randomized trials have 'proven' that a particular drug is better than existing ones. This is also the case in surgical specialties, although surgery has traditionally seen a lack of useof this information, with individual surgeon's preferences being most influential in treatment choices. However, more recently, there has been a large expansion of trials and studies aimed at providingsurgeons with information to guide their choices using firm evidence. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include new data where relevant, and also features a new chapter on pituitary surgery. Landmark Papers in Neurosurgery 2e remains a key collection of the most important trials and studies in neurosurgery, allowing the reader to rapidly extract key results, and making it essential reading for all neurosurgeons and trainees in the field.