Nursing Science: Claiming the Future

Tressa: Claiming the Future

Unlike sequential programs, concurrent programs have to account for interference on shared variables. Static verification of a desired property for such programs crucially depends on precisely asserting the conditions for interference. In a static proof system, in addition to program variables, auxiliary (history) variables summarizing the past of the program execution are used in these asserti...

IOM Future of Nursing Report: implications for gerontological nursing science.

In the past several years, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has provided a clear blueprint for improving the health of older adults through two signifi cant reports—Retooling for an Aging America (2008) and Th e Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010). Together, these reports have implications for research in gerontological nursing, and with the implementation of the Patient P...

The future nursing voice.

Based on some articles in the journal Nursing Ethics, the author outlines some of the areas of major importance for nursing in the future. These areas--the care of elderly people, long-term home-based care, genetics, international research and conflict and war--demand a new voice of nursing, which is a political voice. The rationale for a political voice is the ICN Code of ethics for nurses and...

Nursing for the Future

GENERAL ENDOCRINOLOGY. By C. Donnell Turner. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1948. xii + 604 pp. $6.75. This book is the first edition of a text-book on general endocrinology and is aimed to meet the needs of the beginning student in experimental endocrinology. Clearly, the book accomplishes this rather modest aim and more. It is not intended to be a completely adequate handbook for the advan...

The future of nursing.