The Patient’s Question— Unanswered

Nurse staffing and quality: the unanswered question.

Researchers have spent decades trying to answer the question: Does more nurse staff lead to better quality of nursing home care? Many nurses, consumers, nursing home providers, and other stakeholders believe intuitively that the answer is “yes.” Yet, the research literature fails to give us a clear answer. Bostick and colleagues1 reached a relatively positive conclusion about the nurse staffing...

1 The Unanswered Question of Legislative Perceptions

In his influential study of House members in their districts, Richard Fenno asked: “What does the representative see when he or she goes home to look at the represented?” He then followed this question by asking about the effects of a legislator’s view of his district: “How does what he or she sees affect his or her representational activity? What can we learn, from this perspective, about the ...

An Unanswered Question about Diabetes Mellitus

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Diabetes Mellitus is so prevalent all around the world. As known, Diabetes is accounted among the high morbid and mortal diseases. As a nurse I had a question in mind, I wanted to know "what is the best or assuring criterion to judge on the improvement in diabetic patients...

‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death

The diffi culty that each of us faces in seeking to comprehend death is neatly expressed by Wittgenstein in the epigraph at the head of this chapter. A related insight of the sculptor Damien Hirst led him to create the work entitled ‘The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living’, which was fi rst shown at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1992 (Gallagher 2012 ; frontispie...

Keynote Talk: Communication Without Repudiation: The Unanswered Question