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Clinical journal of oncology nursing, Feb 1, 2017

Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing challenges ... more Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing challenges in the management of adverse events (AEs) during antilymphoma therapy. Testing has revealed that less than half of participating nurses correctly graded peripheral neuropathy and neutropenia related to antilymphoma regimens. This article identifies nursing challenges in the management of AEs associated with therapy for lymphomas and describes how strategies in critical thinking can help meet those challenges. A comprehensive literature search in oncology nursing, nursing education, and critical thinking was conducted; participant responses to pre- and post-tests at nursing education programs were evaluated; and a roundtable meeting of authors was convened. Oncology nurses can cultivate critical thinking skills, practice thinking critically in relation to team members and patients, leverage information from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, and ...

Witty Partiton, 2019

I confess. I’m a sucker for the poetic conceit. Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz mastered the conceit: d... more I confess. I’m a sucker for the poetic conceit. Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz mastered the conceit: desire as greenscape, unrequited love as the death penalty (“Verde embeloso…,” “Pues estoy condenada…”). So did her devotee, Octavio Paz (“Estrella Interior”), and so of course did John Donne, often with wondrous absurdity, as when he likened sex to mutual flea bites (“The Flea”). So I sit perplexed in my pleasure when reading the poetry of Carl Phillips, including his fine, fourteenth book, Wild is the Wind. Phillips always resists conceit. Instead, he cracks his images asunder to create a fractal poetry— faceted, irregular shapes that mirror the wild irregularity of the world.

Teaching Philosophy, 2020

In an age when women seldom aired their views in print, Duchess Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) pu... more In an age when women seldom aired their views in print, Duchess Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) published fourteen books under her own name, including several tracts devoted to natural philosophy. Cavendish has been lauded as a pioneer, but also ridiculed as a hack. Was she the mother of feminist perspectives on natural science? Or was she a housewife hobbyist, replete with a doting husband who encouraged her despite her lack of formal education? Fortunately, Cavendish has been freed from the constraints of either role by David Cunning’s valuable book Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings. Cunning’s succinct volume establishes Cavendish as a philosopher, full stop—a thinker worth knowing better.

After the Art, 2020

Helen Frankenthaler's painting Grey Fireworks is a source of equanimity for me. Why did I feel su... more Helen Frankenthaler's painting Grey Fireworks is a source of equanimity for me. Why did I feel such composure at the sight of Grey Fireworks? I’ve come to think it’s because the work confronts us with opposites that are not wholly opposed—warring parties declaring peace. I’ve noticed that this is the same composure I feel when reading Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, a work devoted to the paradoxes of unopposed opposites and noncontradictory contradictions.

Handbook of Research on Advancing Critical Thinking in Higher Education, 2015

This chapter advances the view that critical thinking and character must be redefined as mutually... more This chapter advances the view that critical thinking and character must be redefined as mutually reinforcing capabilities, and taught in the light of this redefinition. After an analysis of how critical thought and character came to be separated into independent skill sets, the chapter surveys the limited efficacy of skills-based, character-neutral education in critical thinking. Next, the chapter presents rationales and methods for uniting critical thinking and character in higher education, drawing upon philosophical, sociological, and pedagogical evidence in support of this unification. Educational recommendations and directions for future research round out the chapter. Included among these recommendations is an emphasis on relationship-building as an instructional model to integrate education in character and critical thinking. Ultimately, the chapter makes the case that critical thinking cannot be taught effectively to students who have not developed the character necessary to face the consequences of critical thought.

Teaching Philosophy, 2017

BACKGROUND: Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing... more BACKGROUND: Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing challenges in the management of adverse events (AEs) during antilymphoma therapy. Testing has revealed that less than half of participating nurses correctly graded peripheral neuropathy and neutropenia related to antilymphoma regimens.
OBJECTIVES: This article identifies nursing challenges in the management of AEs associated with therapy for lymphomas and describes how strategies in critical thinking can help meet those challenges.
METHODS: A comprehensive literature search in oncology nursing, nursing education, and critical thinking was conducted; participant responses to pre- and post-tests at nursing education programs
were evaluated; and a roundtable meeting of authors was convened.
FINDINGS: Oncology nurses can cultivate critical thinking skills, practice thinking critically in relation to team members and patients, leverage information from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, and manage workflow to allow more opportunity for critical thinking.

Teaching Philosophy, 2016

Teaching Philosophy, 2016

The philosophy of education began, in the work of Plato, with two normative questions: What shoul... more The philosophy of education began, in the work of Plato, with two normative questions: What should humans be taught? And by what method should they be taught it? Those simple questions have been obscured by ever-increasing complexity in educational philosophy. The philosophy of education may currently include too much, and so this review of four general texts uses this criterion of a book’s merit: the ability to retain what is most obviously philosophical and eliminate what is not. On that criterion, two of the books, one by Nel Noddings and another by Randall Curren, are especially noteworthy in their value for students and teachers of educational philosophy.

Clinical journal of oncology nursing, Feb 1, 2017

Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing challenges ... more Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing challenges in the management of adverse events (AEs) during antilymphoma therapy. Testing has revealed that less than half of participating nurses correctly graded peripheral neuropathy and neutropenia related to antilymphoma regimens. This article identifies nursing challenges in the management of AEs associated with therapy for lymphomas and describes how strategies in critical thinking can help meet those challenges. A comprehensive literature search in oncology nursing, nursing education, and critical thinking was conducted; participant responses to pre- and post-tests at nursing education programs were evaluated; and a roundtable meeting of authors was convened. Oncology nurses can cultivate critical thinking skills, practice thinking critically in relation to team members and patients, leverage information from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, and ...

Witty Partiton, 2019

I confess. I’m a sucker for the poetic conceit. Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz mastered the conceit: d... more I confess. I’m a sucker for the poetic conceit. Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz mastered the conceit: desire as greenscape, unrequited love as the death penalty (“Verde embeloso…,” “Pues estoy condenada…”). So did her devotee, Octavio Paz (“Estrella Interior”), and so of course did John Donne, often with wondrous absurdity, as when he likened sex to mutual flea bites (“The Flea”). So I sit perplexed in my pleasure when reading the poetry of Carl Phillips, including his fine, fourteenth book, Wild is the Wind. Phillips always resists conceit. Instead, he cracks his images asunder to create a fractal poetry— faceted, irregular shapes that mirror the wild irregularity of the world.

Teaching Philosophy, 2020

In an age when women seldom aired their views in print, Duchess Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) pu... more In an age when women seldom aired their views in print, Duchess Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) published fourteen books under her own name, including several tracts devoted to natural philosophy. Cavendish has been lauded as a pioneer, but also ridiculed as a hack. Was she the mother of feminist perspectives on natural science? Or was she a housewife hobbyist, replete with a doting husband who encouraged her despite her lack of formal education? Fortunately, Cavendish has been freed from the constraints of either role by David Cunning’s valuable book Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings. Cunning’s succinct volume establishes Cavendish as a philosopher, full stop—a thinker worth knowing better.

After the Art, 2020

Helen Frankenthaler's painting Grey Fireworks is a source of equanimity for me. Why did I feel su... more Helen Frankenthaler's painting Grey Fireworks is a source of equanimity for me. Why did I feel such composure at the sight of Grey Fireworks? I’ve come to think it’s because the work confronts us with opposites that are not wholly opposed—warring parties declaring peace. I’ve noticed that this is the same composure I feel when reading Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, a work devoted to the paradoxes of unopposed opposites and noncontradictory contradictions.

Handbook of Research on Advancing Critical Thinking in Higher Education, 2015

This chapter advances the view that critical thinking and character must be redefined as mutually... more This chapter advances the view that critical thinking and character must be redefined as mutually reinforcing capabilities, and taught in the light of this redefinition. After an analysis of how critical thought and character came to be separated into independent skill sets, the chapter surveys the limited efficacy of skills-based, character-neutral education in critical thinking. Next, the chapter presents rationales and methods for uniting critical thinking and character in higher education, drawing upon philosophical, sociological, and pedagogical evidence in support of this unification. Educational recommendations and directions for future research round out the chapter. Included among these recommendations is an emphasis on relationship-building as an instructional model to integrate education in character and critical thinking. Ultimately, the chapter makes the case that critical thinking cannot be taught effectively to students who have not developed the character necessary to face the consequences of critical thought.

Teaching Philosophy, 2017

BACKGROUND: Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing... more BACKGROUND: Multiple treatment options, combined with disease heterogeneity, have created nursing challenges in the management of adverse events (AEs) during antilymphoma therapy. Testing has revealed that less than half of participating nurses correctly graded peripheral neuropathy and neutropenia related to antilymphoma regimens.
OBJECTIVES: This article identifies nursing challenges in the management of AEs associated with therapy for lymphomas and describes how strategies in critical thinking can help meet those challenges.
METHODS: A comprehensive literature search in oncology nursing, nursing education, and critical thinking was conducted; participant responses to pre- and post-tests at nursing education programs
were evaluated; and a roundtable meeting of authors was convened.
FINDINGS: Oncology nurses can cultivate critical thinking skills, practice thinking critically in relation to team members and patients, leverage information from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, and manage workflow to allow more opportunity for critical thinking.

Teaching Philosophy, 2016

Teaching Philosophy, 2016

The philosophy of education began, in the work of Plato, with two normative questions: What shoul... more The philosophy of education began, in the work of Plato, with two normative questions: What should humans be taught? And by what method should they be taught it? Those simple questions have been obscured by ever-increasing complexity in educational philosophy. The philosophy of education may currently include too much, and so this review of four general texts uses this criterion of a book’s merit: the ability to retain what is most obviously philosophical and eliminate what is not. On that criterion, two of the books, one by Nel Noddings and another by Randall Curren, are especially noteworthy in their value for students and teachers of educational philosophy.