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Article: Alternative Nursing.(Brief Article)
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- January 1, 2001
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Alternative nursing ideas and techniques are taught in many nursing schools and employed in many hospitals. Health writer Sarah Glazer attributes these developments to the inroads of postmodern theory and to the struggle for status and income by nurses.
She depicts nursing education and practice as split between two conflicting factions: one accepts scientific methods of research into patient care; the other would replace or augment them with qualitative methods based on patients' and nurses' observations. The latter school promotes "therapeutic touch," a technique introduced in the 1970s by Dolores Krieger, nursing professor emerita at New York University, and ...