Madelaine Lawrence

RnCeus Interactive · Nursing

The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of deathbed communications (DBCs) during the 30 days before death and their impact on the dying process. A total of 60 hospice chart audits and 75 survey responses by hospice nurses across the United States were analyzed. Chart audits revealed 5 (8.33%) of the 60 included descriptions of DBCs...

We briefly survey research designed to validate alleged out-of-body perceptions during near-death experiences. Most accounts of this kind that have surfaced since Michael Sabom's work are unsubstantiated self-reports or, as in claims of visual perception of blind persons, completely undocumented or fictional, but there have been some reports that w...

Although considerable research has been done on pathophysiology, metabolic and physical causes, and prognostic indicators, little is known about unconsciousness or coma from the perspective of the patient. To describe the experiences of patients who were once documented as being unconscious. Phenomenologic interviews were conducted with 100 patient...

Abstract Background: Nurses are told to speak to their unconscious patients because hearing is said to be the last sense to depart. There was little reliable evidence before the 1990s that patients in an unconscious state could hear and understand what was said. That leads to reluctance on the part of health professionals to communicate with these...

This warmhearted women's fiction novel is all about making a difference in the lives of others and making good choices in romantic relationships. It portrays nurses and other health professionals in their helping roles and the inner workings of the healthcare system. This book is based on Madelaine’s experience as a nurse in three different emergen...

During this COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., there are multiple reports about nurses' and doctors' bravery in taking care of patients who are ill with the coronavirus. These reports also describe long working hours and stress for hospital staff and shortages of N95 masks, surgical masks, gowns, and ventilators. From April 3, 2020, to April 29, 2020,...

Background: Recent research shows up to 88% of human trafficking victims are seen in a health care setting sometime during their coerced servitude. Nurses are in key positions to identify trafficked victims but often lack sufficient information about how to assess and report trafficked victims. Method: This article includes participant data from o...

This is the report of what nurses say about working during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. From April 3, 2020, to April 29, 2020, RnCeus Interactive, an online provider of nursing continuing education, asked nurses throughout the US about the accessibility to protective gear and ventilators as well as adequate staffing at work. The nurses who care...

This course includes detailed descriptions of the steps involved in writing articles for professional journals. Identify a topic Select a journal Write a query letter Submit query letters Write an abstract Complete an outline Write a title, Complete introduction, and background Write the text of the paper Write the conclusion Format the reference...

This offering provides information about 4 types of child abuse: physical, emotional, sexual and neglect. There are descriptions of the following: detection of abused children, assessment of injuries and signs and symptoms, causes, long term effects, preventive measures, US laws, mechanisms and the duty of health professionals to report child abuse...

Healthcare professionals have a responsibility and requirement in all states to recognize and report suspected child abuse, maltreatment and neglect. Abusive Head Trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome) is listed as a form of child abuse in all states. Currently, four states require nurses to complete continuing education courses in child abuse and/or Abusi...

A course on Human Trafficking for health professionals and others Available in complete form at http://www.rnceus.com/course_frame.asp?exam_id=105&directory=trafficking. Introduction Human trafficking is the coerced servitude of men, women or children. It is a human rights offense that occurs worlwide, including every state in America. Globally, t...

Introduction Most of us remember our healthcare instructors advising us to talk to our unconscious patients, telling us hearing was the ”last sense to go.” While most of us heeded this advice, it was difficult to do since there was no response from the patient. We never knew if what we were saying made a difference or not. From current research we...

Introduction: Little attention is given to how individuals process sensory information during a transpersonal experience. What selective attention processes operate during a transpersonal event is significant to better understand cognitive operations and for selection of target objects in research studies. Methodology: Forty case descriptions of ob...

This presentation addresses signs and symptoms of impairment and treatment options for nurses. It includes state boards of nursing examiners that mandate reporting of impairment in colleagues and those that provide alternative to discipline programs. Treatment approaches are also described.

In addition to the physiological changes that occur to patients with cardiovascular disease due to genetics, poor health habits, and/or aging, psychological constructs have been found to influence the development and progression of cardiovascular disease and ultimately heart failure. Several research studies have been carried out describing psychol...

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The purpose of this article is to describe examples of near-death and other transpersonal experiences occurring during catastrophic events like floods, wars, bombings, and death camps. To date, researchers have limited their investigations of these transpersonal events to those occurring to seriously ill patients in hospitals, those dying from term...

Introduction This course will identify and describe five types of transpersonal experiences recounted by terminal or critically ill patients: near-death experience, near-death visit, out-of-body experience, deathbed communication, after death communication. In addition, reported perimortem observations will be discussed: predicting the time of...

Michael Friedan was found murdered in his South Carolina home holding evidence that his daughter's husband was cheating on her. A murder, a motive and an arrest-it should have been a simple case...but it wasn't. Enter Dr. Susan Kemper, psychologist and forensic hypnotherapist. Susan's domineering husband doesn't want her on this case and the lead d...

Progress toward describing the Inner life of the dying (Review of the book The inner life of the dying person, by A. Kellehear).

Reports and studies of near-death experiences, death-bed communications, after-death communications and a host of other transpersonal experiences occurring near death are creating a new paradigm challenging our exclusive biological and psychological understanding of death and near-death. Care provided to those near death or dying is an evolving pro...

Book Review: Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences, by Nancy Evans Bush

Description of paranormal experiences triggered by medical conditions.

Clinically based nurses have many relevant and informative experiences to share. It is often difficult, however, to find effective ways to support staff in writing about these ideas. To achieve this support, a "Writing for Publication Seminar Series" is more effective than 1-day workshops. More staff development departments are being challenged to...

A sequential approach to implementing an associate degree nursing program at Mohegan Community College, Norwich, Connecticut, is presented in a conceptual framework. The framework utilizes Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive learning as a guide and incorporates objectives for learning level, sample course, and sample unit. (MF)

Typescript (photocopy). Abstract (2 leaves) bound with copy. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Connecticut, 1983. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-176).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 1983. Includes bibliographical references. Microfiche.