Hospital Therapeutic Practices: Changes from 1800 to 1900
Hospitals as we know them today have changed dramatically on a relatively short period of time. Even just two hundred years ago, a modern patient would not recognize the center of medical care. From 1800 to 1900, there were dramatic changes that reorganized the process of care. More professionalism and specialized care were introduced, yet the holistic approach to therapeutic care was pushed to the side.
Non-Intrusive Monitoring: Types, Applications, and Benefits
Non-intrusive monitoring, developed by George Hart, Ed Kern and Fred Schweppe in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is commonly used in terms of non-intrusive load monitoring, a means of monitoring an electrical circuit which encompasses a particular number of appliances which are all able to turn on and off independent of one another. Instead of attaching a monitor to all of these appliances, non-intrusive monitoring uses electric meters to determine the different uses of power in a given home. Similarly, nonintrusive appliance load monitoring, engages via "a sophisticated analysis of the current and voltage waveforms of the total load, the NALM estimates the number and nature of the individual loads, their individual energy consumption, and other relevant statistics such as time-of-day variations" (Hart).
Nursing Metaparadigm: Evolving Views of the Discipline
Some nurses regard the concept of 'nursing theory' as an oxymoron, arguing that nursing is a practical exercise. This paper examines various views of the nursing metaparadigm of patient, environment, health, and the nursing process. Some theorists have used the metaparadigm to conceive of nursing as a spiritual exercise, while others argue that it is a disservice to nursing to distill it from its professional components.