Spiritual practice

In the article, Paul Alan makes a claim that contradicts the claims made by Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge regarding “singularity” stating, “While we suppose this kind of singularity might one day occur, we don’t think it is near. In fact, we think it will be a very long time coming.” Alan lays out the article by providing the claims Kurzweil mentions in his article, and provides statements and evidence that contradicts them. He begins his article by providing the main thesis statement and claims…

The evolutionary prize in our world is something humans overlook every day. It’s the power of our human brain that lets us sense the very world we live in. To touch, smell, visualize, listen, taste, and think are exactly these things that we overlook and are the answer to furthering human evolution. Humans have achieved the power to change our behavior, society, ways of life, and aspects of our physical form, thus breaking the connection with natural selection. Ray Kurzweil, a well-known…

The concepts Ray Kurzweil puts forth in the documentary The Transcendent Man are both intriguing and frightening. Kurzweil discusses Technological Singularity, also referred to as the “Accelerating Change Thesis”, and it’s meaning as “…a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed…” Many of Kurzweil’s ideas or predictions regarding the changing of our technological world, stemming from…

because of lack of education and knowledge. 7. How will this experience change your nursing practice? This experience will make me a better nurse. There are so many field nursing can practice and I believe community nursing is an option for me in the near future. Community nurse is great asset to have in the rural area. It is such an honor to work with people in need. I will use my knowledge to practice nursing fairly and will and forever continue to provide the best and safest care to each…

Dorothea Elizabeth Orem was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1914. Orem attended Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C., where she later received her diploma in 1934. She continued her nursing education at Catholic University of America earning her B.S. in Nursing Education in 1939, and a M.S. in Nursing Education in 1945. In 1958, Orem was one of the foremost nursing theorists, and began developing her theory for improvement of quality nursing care in hospitals which became…

nursing profession carries high standards of care, and reflective practice is one the ways of assisting nurses with reviewing their practice and ensuring it is continuously satisfactory. Throughout this essay the concept of reflective practice, how it can benefit nurses will be reviewed, and a personal reflection of traits will be conducted and further incorporated into constructing a career’s plan. To understand why reflective practice is important for nurses, it is crucial to understand the…

was published in a government document which challenged the obvious existence of racism in various government departments in Aotearoa, “Biculturalism exists when the values and traditions of both cultures are reflected in society’s customs, laws, practices, and institutional arrangements, and with both cultures sharing control over resources and decision making”. (Durie, 1998). The image displays diverse facets of biculturalism. There is that of the young and aged, caregiver and care-receiver,…

Everyone and anyone with the best intentions at heart would like to see their child prevail, to overcome the obstacle the face in life, and to find a path that suites them. Nevertheless, there is no single “perfect” method of raising children, even with extensive research a parent can only do so much to develop their child’s sense of duty and and discipline. Cultural differences contribute to the vast amount of parenting techniques and plays an important role values that we try to instill in our…

Theory is central to effective nursing practice and research. Nursing theory offers a framework for thought in which nurses examine situations. This framework supplies structure and organization to nursing knowledge and provides a methodical means of collecting data to interpret, explain, and predict nursing practice (McEwen & Willis, 2014, p. 36). Nursing theory is crucial for the evolution of the nursing discipline. The knowledge that is developed through nursing research is used to test…

The reason for being limited is because we all fear the unknown, but once we know what to expect, we might not fear the unknown anymore. At the same time, there are also limitations when it comes to skills that we haven 't practice or we have but forget the steps to complete them. Therefore, having the fear of not being able to perform a skill at the professor 's level is one fear that I can change how I view my future actions. For example, when I started my clinical rotation…