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L Keegan

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PubMed1995

Cultural beliefs and health behaviors of pregnant Mexican-American women: implications for primary care.

A significant aspect of holistic primary care nursing is that it seeks to assess and understand clients' health beliefs and behaviors in the context of culture. This article examines implications for primary care nursing practice based on the cultural beliefs and health behaviors of pregnant Mexican-American women. Giger and Davidhizar's transcultural assessment model is used to evaluate six cultural phenomena present in all cultural groups. Culturally sensitive primary care by certified nurse-midwives in a community health birth center setting is described.

Birthing Centers↗
PubMed1994

Holistic nursing in New Zealand.

New Zealand nurses are active and dynamic emerging holistic practitioners. Despite an economic recession and dramatic changes in their health care delivery systems, the country's holistic nurses have mobilized to develop and begin a holistic nurses' association. Holistic nurses from both islands have begun independent practices using complementary therapies and modalities. Although New Zealand is distant from North America geographically, there have been increasing numbers of exchange visits and subsequent influence on international holistic nursing practice. New Zealand, being a lush, green, clean, semitropical country in the South Pacific, is a wonderful place for North American nurses to experience cross-cultural nursing while still being in an English-speaking country.

Holistic Health↗
PubMed1992

A concept of holistic ethics for the health professional.

Holistic ethics involves a basic underlying concept of the unity and integral wholeness of all people and of all nature that is identified and pursued by finding unity and wholeness within the self. Within this framework, acts are not performed for the sake of law, precedent, or social norms, but rather out of a sense of doing good freely in order to witness, identify, and contribute to unity. The development of holistic ethics involves elements of both the masculine and feminine concepts interacting and relating to one another and encompassing traditional ethical views. It is characterized in the yin-yang mode of the monad of the East and the Western concept of masculine and feminine. Holistic ethics is not an ethics that is grounded or judged either in the act performed or in the distant consequences of the act, but rather in the conscious evolution of an enlightened individual of raised consciousness who performs the act. The concern is the effect of the act primarily on the individual and his or her larger Self (that unity of which he or she is a part).

Consciousness↗
PubMed1991

Neutrophil chemotaxis and neutrophil elastase in the aortic wall in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms.

To test the hypothesis that elastin-derived peptides (EDP) from human aortic tissue may be chemotactic for inflammatory cells, we studied the chemotaxis of neutrophils and monocytes to EDP derived from abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), aortic occlusive disease (AOD), and control aortas. In addition, we determined if neutrophils deliver neutrophil elastase to the aorta in vivo by staining for neutrophil elastase (NE) throughout the course of abdominal aortic aneurysms with the monoclonal antibody to human NE. EDP from AAA, AOD, and control tissue demonstrated significant chemotactic activity for both neutrophils and monocytes. All neutrophils had a greater attraction to EDP from AAA tissue compared to AOD and control aorta. Neutrophils from AAA patients were more attracted to EDP of AAA tissue than were neutrophils of AOD or control patients attracted to their respective aortic EDP. Neutrophil elastase stained positive in the adventitia and thrombus throughout the course of the aneurysm, but was not found in the intima, media, or plaque of the aorta.

Aorta, Abdominal↗
PubMed1991

Conscious living.

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Holistic Health↗
PubMed1989

Holistic nursing.

Holistic health care began in antiquity, but it gradually faded from traditional medicine. The re-emergence of the whole-thinking paradigm has begun to revolutionize the health care system. New modes of nursing intervention, including therapeutic massage, therapeutic touch, imagery, and music, are now available for implementation by the postanesthesia nurse. In addition, nurses must recognize the need for self-care and healthful behavior patterns in their own lives. When nurses model wellness, they feel and function better, and they will be more able to meet the goal of high-quality care.

Holistic Health↗
PubMed1987

Holistic nursing. An approach to patient and self-care.

The re-emergence of the holistic health care paradigm has begun to revolutionize the health care system. New modes of nursing intervention, including therapeutic massage, therapeutic touch, imagery, and music can now be implemented by the perioperative nurse. All nurses must recognize the need for self-care and healthful behavior patterns in their own lives. When nurses achieve wellness, not only will they feel and function better, but they will be able to deliver high-quality care.

Holistic Health↗
PubMed1986

Separation of DNA binding from the transcription-activating function of a eukaryotic regulatory protein.

The yeast GAL4 protein (881 amino acids) binds to specific DNA sites upstream of target genes and activates transcription. Derivatives of this protein bearing as few as 74 amino terminal residues bind to these sites but fail to activate transcription. When appropriately positioned in front of a gene these derivatives act as repressors. These and related findings support the idea that GAL4 activates transcription by touching other DNA-bound proteins.

Amino Acid Sequence↗