Category: T

The use of human embryos as a source of stem cells for the treatment of diseases and medical conditions, e.g., leukemias, Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injury. Therapeutic cloning is banned in the U.S. and is a topic of ethical and religious debate in those countries in which it has been legalized.  

The use of diagnostic tests for specific biomarkers to stratify patients into those mostly likely to respond to particular treatment regimens and to monitor the response of patients to the treatments administered.  

A nest of nevus cells or other cells close to the basal layer of the epidermis.  

The treatment of disease by spiritual and religious methods.  

A nursing theory developed by Ida Jean Orlando that focuses on how the nurse identifies patients’ immediate needs for help. The goal of nursing is to identify and meet patients’ immediate needs for help through use of the deliberative nursing process.  

One of the three “natural laws” of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy: this one specifies that most chronic diseases result from suppressed itching.  

A nursing theory in which the nurse uses the client’s assumptions and beliefs on health and disease to plan and implement sound, holistic, and healing interventions. MRM was developed by Helen Cook Erickson, Evelyn Malcolm Tomlin, and Mary Ann Price Swain.  

A nursing theory developed by Hildegard Peplau that identifies the three phases of the interpersonal process between the nurse and the patient: orientation, working, and termination. In this theory, the goal of nursing is to resolve the patient’s perceived health difficulties.  

One of the three “natural laws” of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy. He proposed that properly diluted substances become more and more powerful as remedies the more dilute they become.  

A nursing theory developed by Jean Watson that focuses on the transpersonal caring relationship between nurse and patient and the caring actions or interventions used by nurses. The goal of nursing is to help individuals to gain a higher degree of harmony within the mind, body, and soul through the use of 10 carative factors…