Abstract
This paper reviews the unhappy situation of people who are recovering from invasive remedial hip surgery and how smart nursing practices can optimize their period of convalescence. The paper begins first by highlighting the risk factors which aggravate the likelihood of one suffering falls post-operation. It also looks at three critical intellectual concepts that nurses must have if they are to be empathic, sensitive, smart, progressive and innovative guides leading patients towards full recovery. In the final analysis, open-minded and creative thinking coupled with an unswerving commitment to answers is the only way to be a genuinely professional nurse in these circumstances.

Outline:
Critical Thinking Concept One: Intellectual Empathy
Critical Thinking Concept Two: Intellectual Integrity
Critical Thinking Concept Three: Intellectual Perseverance

From the Paper
"Intellectual perseverance is the third and final of the three critical thinking concepts, but it could be argued that it is the most important of all of them; at the very least, it is indispensable in the acquisition of new knowledge (Carter, 1990). Simply put, without a willingness to confront the frustration and even disorientation that always seems to accompany intellectual exploration, a care-giver who is trying to facilitate the recovery of a post-operative individual with hip complications will find himself or herself shying away from a whole-hearted commitment to learning the truth about new nursing practices. For geriatric patients who depend upon their care-givers in a way that a younger patient does not, this can be especially difficult inasmuch as hip fractures brought about by falling can exact a physical and physiological toll that can be lethal."

Tags:hip, injury, operation, replacement, recovery, rehabilitation, convalescence

Abstract
This paper explains that "A Farewell to Arms", a novel of war and love, consists of two parts. The part before his surgery and convalescence at Milan, including Frederic Henry's wounding, and the part after he returns to the front. The author points out that Hemingway uses rain as a good or bad portent in almost every part of the novel, and it serves as a metaphor on numerous occasions. The paper relates that Hemingway was an alcoholic, and alcoholism plays an important role in "Farewell to Arms", thus showing a slice of Ernest Hemingway's life.

From the Paper
"Catherine Barkley, in the novel, has many suitors, including a Dr. Rinaldi, a physician assigned to Henry's ambulance corps. Rinaldi, recognizing the extent of Henry's feelings, backs away from his pursuit of Nurse Barkley. This way, Hemingway felt that he had complete ascendancy over Catherine's very being. The love affair between Catherine and Frederic is not of mutual give and take. Catherine is completely giving of her body mind and soul. Frederic does not reciprocate any of this; indeed, he is constantly demanding. When he wrote the novel, Hemingway was older. He was married and divorced to his first wife Hadley. His real life wife, Pauline, was pregnant with his child and had a difficult cesarean birth around the time the novel was completed--almost a decade after World War I ended. This was the difficulty of childbirth that Hemingway forced upon the character of Hemingway attributed to his characters his feelings of that time. Catherine also combined the characteristics of both Hadley and Pauline."

Tags:rain, war, love, alcoholic, divorce