This article is an overview of selected nursing and linguistic literature examining the use of the pronoun Du vs. Sie in Germany. The aim of this literature review is to show the difficulties faced when one is choosing a form of address and relate these ...

An extensive study of literature, from which recommendations for oral hygiene could be deduced, forms the base of this essay. The group of geriatric clients is also taken into consideration. At the beginning it lists frequent risks in medical and nursing ...

The investigation presented here is part of a series of studies on oral hygiene that deal with a very common problem occurring in everyday practice. Two different methods of mouth cleaning were tested in a comparative study on 150 subjects. At least in ...

Smoking as a major public-health concern is still a widespread habit among nurses and young students of nursing. The hypothesis however, that professional environment positively influences smoking habit, could not be supported: smoking is less influenced ...

Present reforms and dynamics of development within the health care system have led to different health care needs and new demands on nursing. It has been assumed that in the future a number of innovative potentials and new areas of responsibility will ...

Based upon the presentation of the concept of naive implicit theories the article relates experience and action-guiding knowledge in critical nursing situations. Nineteen experienced and inexperienced nurses had to deal with two simulated nursing ...