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Exploring understanding of the term nursing assessment : a mixed method review of the literature
(2010)
Background: Much skilled nursing practice is described by words that at face value appear low-tech and self-explanatory. Despite being intrinsic to practice, the term "nursing assessment" has few operational definitions. ...
Late atrial perforation from tunnelled haemodialysis catheter
(2010)
Central venous cannulation is a commonly performed procedure in HD patients. One complication associated with such a procedure includes cardiac tamponade, thought to arise from the guidewire, dilator or venous cannula ...
Poetic expression and poetic form in practitioner research
(2010)
The nature of participants' experience in practitioner research is often taken for granted, and its more tacit dimensions overlooked. Poetic expression is valuable in surfacing these tacit dimensions, enabling the researcher ...
A long-period planet orbiting a nearby Sun-like star
(2010)
The Doppler wobble induced by the extra-solar planet HD 134987b was first detected by data from the Keck Telescope nearly a decade ago, and was subsequently confirmed by data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). ...
Still sad after successful renal transplantation : are we failing to recognise depression? An audit of depression screening in renal graft recipients
(2010)
Background: Depression is common in chronic physical illness, including renal graft recipients. There is evidence that depression is an independent marker of poorer prognosis in dialysis patients. In the UK, screening is ...
Irony, relevance and pragmatic interpretation in Spanish
(2010)
This article examines the interpretation of irony in Spanish. It first looks at traditional approaches such as the Gricean model, which classify irony together with other tropes like metaphor, hyperbole, or understatement. ...
Ecological determinants of Bemisia tabaci resistance to insecticides
(Springer Nature, 2010)
Managing wound pain during application and removal of dressings
(2010)
Wound pain is a common experience in patients with acute and chronic wounds, and also post healing in some cases, with scars (Stavrou et al, 2009). This pain can cause patients considerable suffering and distress, and ...
Conservation biological control at the landscape level: measuring and modelling
(IOBC/WPRS, 2010)
The incorporation of landscape management into Conservation Biological Control (CBC) strategies is a priority area of research but is hindered by a lack of harmonisation of the means to describe and measure the effectiveness ...
Spectropolarimetric evidence for a kicked supermassive black hole in the quasar E1821+643
(2010)
We report spectropolarimetric observations of the quasar E1821+643 (z = 0.297), which suggest that it may be an example of gravitational recoil due to anisotropic emission of gravitational waves following the merger of a ...