Ugh. What verbal diarrhea. This is why I hated some classes with a white hot intensity. You’re supposed to stuff things into gibberish. What fun.
I’d note that despite having that tedious definition for health, and having it come first, it is not referred to again in any definition, goal, or step, and so is apparently superfluous to the rest of the theory, and in particular, the nurse’s goal.
One “step” is setting a goal, which I thought we had already set with “The nurse’s goal is...”
This is probably unfair to Roy, since it’s just your brief overview.
Looking at the “diagnosis” list, it includes some immediate observables and other huge inferences. Distinguishing between observables and inferences seems important to me.
Try this gibberish (Roger’s Theory of Unitary Human Beings): humans are defined as “indivisible energy fields defined by their patterns” and health is defined as “a manifestation of constant and mutual exchange processes between the energy fields of the person and the environment.” Just a moment while my brain melts down trying to translate that into English...
(shrug) We’re made of stuff, and for our purposes we care more about how that stuff interacts with itself and its environment than about, say, whether it’s the same stuff we were made out of yesterday. I’d quibble with “indivisible,” but otherwise I’d agree as far as it goes. I agree with you completely about it being useless, though. (Well, useless for purposes of understanding anything.)
No no no. Recognizing this stuff as BS is about the best anyone can do. These aren’t well defined abstractions, they’re ritual incantations. Discomfort with them, to the point of revulsion, is a sign of a healthy mind.
They’re giving you all these definitions. Is there anything you’re supposed to do with them, besides chant them back on a test?
I engage my fiction / roleplaying modules to deal with it. “Okay, we’re in a magical world where auras are real, people are energy patterns, and magic powers can heal them but only through technological interventions. How will my Level 2 Nurse character deal with Condition C? Let’s see what I have in my inventory...”
I just had a momentary fantasy about someone designing a video game like that as a teaching device for nursing school… Would be epic and I would never forget anything I learned.
Ugh. What verbal diarrhea. This is why I hated some classes with a white hot intensity. You’re supposed to stuff things into gibberish. What fun.
I’d note that despite having that tedious definition for health, and having it come first, it is not referred to again in any definition, goal, or step, and so is apparently superfluous to the rest of the theory, and in particular, the nurse’s goal.
One “step” is setting a goal, which I thought we had already set with “The nurse’s goal is...”
This is probably unfair to Roy, since it’s just your brief overview.
Looking at the “diagnosis” list, it includes some immediate observables and other huge inferences. Distinguishing between observables and inferences seems important to me.
Try this gibberish (Roger’s Theory of Unitary Human Beings): humans are defined as “indivisible energy fields defined by their patterns” and health is defined as “a manifestation of constant and mutual exchange processes between the energy fields of the person and the environment.” Just a moment while my brain melts down trying to translate that into English...
(shrug) We’re made of stuff, and for our purposes we care more about how that stuff interacts with itself and its environment than about, say, whether it’s the same stuff we were made out of yesterday. I’d quibble with “indivisible,” but otherwise I’d agree as far as it goes. I agree with you completely about it being useless, though. (Well, useless for purposes of understanding anything.)
Ya. I don’t do well with abstract definitions.
No no no. Recognizing this stuff as BS is about the best anyone can do. These aren’t well defined abstractions, they’re ritual incantations. Discomfort with them, to the point of revulsion, is a sign of a healthy mind.
They’re giving you all these definitions. Is there anything you’re supposed to do with them, besides chant them back on a test?
I engage my fiction / roleplaying modules to deal with it. “Okay, we’re in a magical world where auras are real, people are energy patterns, and magic powers can heal them but only through technological interventions. How will my Level 2 Nurse character deal with Condition C? Let’s see what I have in my inventory...”
I just had a momentary fantasy about someone designing a video game like that as a teaching device for nursing school… Would be epic and I would never forget anything I learned.
I was thinking a similar thing, only it was visualizing the IRS web site as if it were Quirrell humming.