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Dialogues require knowledge of related theory and continued practice. Dialogues serve a specific purpose. Nurses can use dialogues to initiate discussions and clarify concerns, needs and wishes from the individual perspective. The goal of all dialogues is basically the same for every patient because the overall goal is health and the improved well being of the patient. Those discussions are directed and facilitated through a number of strategies such as repetition and especially by open-ended questions. This paper is intended to demonstrate the author's own use of strategies and progression in the dialogues towards greater competency in nursing.

Tags:reflection, analysis, evaluation

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This paper explains that the only way that nurses will learn about patients' needs and concerns is to really listen and to communicate well. The author points out that the purpose of the dialogues described in the paper was to identify or express the concerns of a patient with tachycardia, a breast cancer patient and a person with chronic abdominal pain. The paper stresses that the better the nurse's communication skills, the higher will be the quality of care that she or he provides. The author underscores that the most important point learned from these dialogues is the importance of the patient's perspective. The paper suggest that open-ended questions, going with the flow, patients' use of certain words or sentences and attentive listening are essential to a successful patient-nurse dialogue.

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"I made other errors with Mrs. K, but they became a learning experience for the next two dialogues. For instance, I interrupted Mrs. K at times to respond to her. The most valuable lesson from Dialogue 1 was that we can remain true to the original intent by asking open-ended questions. The whole direction of the communication can be guided with open-ended questions. At the same time, there were blocks to effective communication because I began with a closed question. When Mrs. K stated that she felt she was becoming paralyzed, that statement needs to be explored with a great deal of empathy."

Tags:open-ended, opportunities, listening, observe, client-centered

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This paper analyzes the meaning of Plato's dialogues, "The Apology", "Meno", and "Euthyphro" with respect to Plato's beliefs on a variety of issues, as illustrated by Socrates. The issues discussed include piety, learning, the soul, philosophy and others.

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"The dialectic or question and answer method of arriving at knowledge and learning is used in Plato's dialogues .Sophists philosophers who were paid for their rhetoric existed in Plato's and Socrates' time and relied upon rhetoric. Plato through Socrates vehemently rejects rhetoric as nothing more than opinionated words. In "Gorgias" Plato objects to rhetoric because he believes it offers no real knowledge but only opinions. As Socrates tells Gorgias who puts up a fierce defense of rhetoric as the highest art."

Tags:1) discourse, dialectic, ration, Meletus, Greek, learning, Gorgias, truth, knowledge, 2) sacraments, spirituality, Theolokos, God, Christ, askesis, Platyera, Chrysostom, iconography, Liturgy, Bible

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This paper explains that, in both the dialogues of "Meno" and "Protagoras," the philosopher Plato argues that 'virtue' cannot be taught, is separate from human institutions and can only be fully accessed by a few. In "Meno" Plato states, rather than as the result of rhetorical practice as instilled by the Sophists, virtue is not a matter of definition, which can be established by logic, but something that must be elicited. The paper relates that ultimately the notion of virtue in "Protagoras" evolves into a less democratic tone, given its devaluation of democratic, free expression in the pursuit of virtue and truth in rhetoric, which would ultimately become the core of Plato's anti-democratic philosophy of kingship.

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"Protagoras' force in arguing for the importance of individuals to achieve collective decisions concerning how their community is governed makes him sympathetic, since modern Americans tend to hope and accept that all people have the basic skills necessary to take part in political activities. Even when this seems to be manifestly not the case, that all human beings may possess different political beliefs and capacities, democracy tends to hopefully operate along the lines of the fiction that human beings can aspire to intelligent and virtuous citizenship, given that the alternative of even philosophical kingship seems inferior. "

Tags:sophists, elicited, anti-democratic, citizenship, abstract

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This paper describes Socrates' personality as presented by Plato. It discusses how Socrates is quite certain he has lived the life he was meant to live, despite the fact that he has received the death penalty for crimes against, essentially, the state, its citizens and God. The paper looks at how Plato describes the 'crime', why these actions were considered so severe and the resulting sentencing.

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"Socrates point is that what makes some act pious or not is innate in the act itself, not what somebody or some god or gods considers to be pious. Either some act is pious or it is not, no matter what anybody considers it to be. Socrates obviously believes that his own dialogues with the citizens are profoundly pious because they serve the truth and because they put the responsibility of basic decisions and definitions in the hands of the individual. One might argue that Socrates is wrong, that he has acted impiously, but even in such a case Socrates seems to prove his dedication to the truth as he sees it by willingly facing death if that is the price demanded by the society to which he remains loyal and true. How many men are willing to remain reasonable in the face of charges they believe unjust, and are willing to die in order to remain true to their principles. To the end, he continues to question the state's definition of reality, including piety, but he lives in Athens and he has agreed to abide by the laws of a society whose benefits and liberties he enjoys."

Tags:state, god, citizen, death, penalty

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"This paper discusses the first cause argument or proof of God's existence as related by Demea in Part IX of David Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion".

The first cause argument goes back at least as far as Aristotle and some of the earlier Greek philosophers. This argument holds that one event is the consequence of another, the other by a third, and so on. However, if we ask for a cause of the whole, we are driven again to a First Cause or to the Creator, who must Himself be uncaused. There must be something which stimulates motion, and this something must itself be unmoved, with the qualities of being eternal and having substance and actuality.

Much later, Thomas Aquinas presented the first cause ... "

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The purpose of this research is to examine David Hume's treatment of the design argument for the existence of God, contained in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The plan of the research will be to set forth the essential steps of the argument made by Cleanthes, who in the Dialogues is advocating the design argument, and then to discuss various refutations of the argument made by Philo, with a view toward suggesting which line of argument seems stronger, whether within Hume's text or from the point of view of outside critique of that text.
The argument from design for the existence of God that Cleanthes makes derives from the rational human experience of the found universe.

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"The purpose of this research is to examine David Hume's treatment of the design argument for the existence of God, contained in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The plan of the research will be to set forth the essential steps of the argument made by Cleanthes, who in the Dialogues is advocating the design argument, and then to discuss various refutations of the argument made by Philo, with a view toward suggesting which line of argument seems stronger, whether within Hume's text or from the point of view of outside critique of that text.
The argument from design for the existence of God that Cleanthes makes derives from the rational human experience of the found universe. The steps of the argument may be summarized:
1. The created/found universe demonstrates order and an "curious adapting [elsewhere adjustment] of means to ends ..."

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This paper critiques three dialogues between a nurse and a patient. The paper suggests strategies that can be used by nurses in order to facilitate positive, knowledgeable and informative dialogues with their patients and the patient's family members. The paper suggests that the goal of the dialogue is essentially the same for all patients, that being health and improved well-being and it goes on to analyze how those goals can be achieved.

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"Analysis of Three Dialogues Introduction Engaging in dialogues with a patient is not a simple matter. Dialogues require knowledge of related theory and continued practice. First of all, all dialogues have a goal which is basically the same for every patient. Overall, the goal is health and the improved well-being of the patient. As Spee (2001, p. 20) states, "Nurses initiate discussions to clarify concerns and wishes from the individual's perspective". Those discussions are directed and facilitated through a number of strategies such as repetition and especially by open-ended questions. "

Tags:patient, dialogue, strategies

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Parse demonstrates the importance of providing holistic and client-centered care as nurses enter into dialogue with their patients. The central concept in Parse's theory is that the patient is the expert for their lives and therefore client choice is of the greatest importance. The use of a client-centered perspective makes the search for meaning possible as well as change or transformation in the patient (Kelly, 1999). The main purpose of this paper is to show how communication is essential for nurses to learn about their patients' needs and concerns. In this critical reflection I will present a synthesis or blending of my learning about therapeutic communication so that I can improve my communication skills.

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Critical reflection on dialogues Parse demonstrates the importance of providing holistic and client-centered care as nurses enter into dialogue with their patients. The central concept in Parse's theory is that the patient is the expert for their lives and therefore client choice is of the greatest importance. The use of a client-centered perspective makes the search for meaning possible as well as change or transformation in the patient (Kelly, 1999). The main purpose of this paper is to show how communication is essential for nurses to learn about their patients' needs and concerns. In this critical reflection I will present a synthesis or blending of my learning

Tags:dialogues, patient, perspective

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"Philo, in David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, argues not that we can know from the observed imperfections in the world that "God has either limited power or limited goodness, but rather that we cannot use our observations of the world to show that God is infinitely powerful and infinitely good. We cannot conclude that God is all-powerful or all-good because the world is full of experiences in the animal and human realm which are clearly not good by our own definition of that word.


The primary assumption Philo makes is that all we have to go on in discussing the attributes of God is our experiences, or the information from the physical world which enters our minds through our senses. This information, based on causality, does not tell us enough about God as the first or primary cause to..."