In today's complex healthcare environment, it is more important than ever that nurses possess critical thinking skills to provide optimal care for their patients. This article offers a definition of critical thinking for nurses and describes the importance of critical thinking in the care of our growing elderly patient population. Examples related to geriatric nursing care, including acute care, dementia care, and end-of-life care, are provided to reinforce the importance of critical thinking and its benefits to our elderly patient population.
This work is dedicated to the hundreds of refugees who have honored me by sharing their journey, and to my family who have accompanied me to fulfilling my dream, my husband, Dan, my daughters, Sydel, Kendall and Alexandra, my son Sadiq, my grandchildren, Natalie and Zakariya, and Ann. I am also very appreciative of the members of my dissertation committee who spent many hours reading, providing feedback and sharing resources. Each member contributed to the final product of this document in their own way, giving expertise, guidance, and support. I am grateful for their contributions, for setting a standard for which to achieve and for their sense of humor when I needed it most. My deep appreciation to Dr. Bibhuti Sar for leading the process and for his commitment to work with refugees, and in turn, to me. I am also very grateful to each member for their unique knowledge and direction, Dr.
Finally I extend a huge thank you to my family and friends but especially my husband and daughter who put up with my absences from home and from family life. Thank you for your understanding, for supporting me, cheering me on, and knowing I could reach the finish line when I had my doubts. 1.4 Thesis Outline This thesis is broken into five chapters. Chapter 2 reviews the literature involved in protected areas (PAs) including scientific, social and ideological beliefs that underpin Western conservation and protected area management. This includes an explanation of the paradigm shifts that have occurred in ecology and conservation science that have led to new conservation goals that seek to integrate people and cultures. These ideologies include new and old concepts like wilderness, the division of nature and culture, SES, resilience, adaptive capacity, cultural and biological diversity and cultural landscapes. The Literature Review then moves to discuss knowledge and how TEK and Indigenous or TRMS are linked. Chapter 3 is an introduction to Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and the study area. Chapter 4 describes the specific methods used in the study and is followed by the results of the thematic analysis (Chapter 5). Chapter 6 provides an interpretation of the results and a discussion about how they relate to existing literature on the subject and is followed by the Conclusion chapter.
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