Creative nursing
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Distance education has traditionally been two-dimensional, with limited interaction. Virtual environments enhance distance education learning through real-time interaction and social collaboration that mimic the real world. Virtual environments offer the option to create social and professional relationships that have been a missing component of distance learning.
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The concept of death with dignity evolves over a nurse's career. A new nurse focuses on the patient as a person. ⋯ As a seasoned professional, the nurse emphasizes the dignity that, through effective nursing, can be restored to dying. Preservation of dignity is found in the way we honor death.
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By doing humanitarian work, we improve the human race. This article describes one nurse's humanitarian aid adventure in Guatemala and provides information about volunteering while encouraging nurses to consider doing the same. It tells how and where to volunteer and describes the benefits humanitarian aid bestows.