Family Dog Our Family Member, Wolfie Our German Shepherd Wolfie has always been the most popular member of our family. Even though there were four of us, including Mom, Pop, and my little sister, it was Wolfie that everyone on the street knew best. Even the neighborhood kids loved her and would come over just to play with her. My sister and I did not even have to be home (and if

family members who value education. Everyone in my extended family has not attended college, but even those who have not are quick to talk about the benefits of higher education. I never need to look far for a manifestation that their theories and aphorisms are on target. So I come easily to the idea of advancing my educational status and improving the potential for a better life for myself

Incarceration on Prisoners Families There can be little doubt that incarceration will impact on families as well as the prisoner. With more than 1 million women and 6 million men within the correctional system in the U.S. (Clarke and Adashi 923), indicating an exponentially large number of family members being impacted. The family members most impacted are the immediate family; partners, and children, as well as parents, as well as

Rapid Critical Appraisal A Family-Based Diabetes Intervention for Hispanic Adults and Their Family Members 1. Are the results of the study valid? a. Was there a representative and well defined sample of patients at a similar point in the course of the disease? Yes No Unknown The study recruited participants who had type 2 diabetes and 1 family member from a community clinic that mostly serves uninsired patients. All the participants identified themselves

Katherine Kolcaba Comfort Theory Comfort is an obvious objective in providing a level of quality of care in a nursing environment. Yet, at the same time, most concepts of "comfort" are based off subjective or heuristic accounts and not holistically explored. Katharine Kolcaba begin building her theory of comfort during graduate school and received her PhD in 1997; and since that time her theories have taken root among many researchers. Comfort

Psychosocial Process Recording Theories thrive in situations where facts are scarce or sparse in human endeavors. Medicine is a field in which such truths are evident. According to Gorman (1990), radical biologists hold the view that all psychiatric complications are caused by brain abnormalities. On the other hand, dogmatic psychologists claim that medical treatment only covers up psychiatric symptoms. They state that psychological treatment gets to the root of the problem