Grendel is the original villain in Beowulf, and, given that he is described physically as a monster, one assumes that he is monstrous. He is described as "the evil creature, grim and hungry" (Breeden)
Included in the care measure should be the use of forced warm air blankets. These are warm blankets that re-warm the SICU patient faster than the fluid-filled blankets (Grossman, Bautista and Sullivan)
Nurses are encouraged to utilize and incorporate in their daily practice evident-based practice. The Evidence-based practice (EBP) is considered to be a scientific standard that determines and guides on the best clinical measure (LoBiondo-Wood and Haber)
The monitoring of the use can be done through nursing records where, a consistent log indicating use of the blanket and the outcome attained is given. This will communicate to the administrative staff the effectiveness attained in the use of the forced warm air blanket and the measures to undertake to improve their effectiveness (Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt)
Health care institutions are taking up to provide practical methodological assessment of their care procedures. This will essentially lead to improved health care practices (Schmidt and Brown)
Amy Tan Mother-Daughter Conflict and Fragmented Cultural Identity within Three Works by Amy Tan The Chinese-American writer Amy Tan, author of such popular and critically-acclaimed novels as the Joy Luck Club (1989); the Kitchen God's Wife (1991); the Hundred Secret Senses (1995) and the Bonesetter's Daughter (1996), two children's books, and numerous short stories and essays (Huntley 19) often focuses in her work on conflict-ridden relationships between uneasily-assimilated Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born, better-assimilated daughters
" One day, Waverly, fed up with her mother's public boasting about her, asks her mother on the way home from shopping: "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess'." (Tan 99)
This, coupled with society's negativity, imposes significant psychological, emotional, and spiritual setbacks - the effects of which have been enumerated in the subsequent sections of this text. Psychological/Physical Effects i) To the Single Mother Empirical literature suggests that, compared to mothers in two-parent households, single mothers seek out professional mental help four times more (Atkins, 2010)
The interplay of these factors affects single mothers' self-esteem, and makes them "less optimistic about the future than their counterparts in two-parent settings" (Falana, Bada & Ayodele, 2012). Single mothers live under this kind of pressure every day; and it gets more intense as the cost of living goes up since social assistance most times often remains constant, or rises less than proportionately (Bramlett & Blumberg, 2007)
This is, most obviously, a result of the stress and depression that comes with bringing up a family as a lone parent. As mentioned elsewhere in this text, a single mother acts as a mother and a father at the same time; she has to juggle the responsibilities of parenting, housekeeping, and financial provision, without "a supportive spouse to turn to for counsel, cooperation, and support" (Bronniman, 2008)
Moreover, single mothers often have minimal funds and almost "half the adult time resources available" (Bronniman, 2008). For this reason, most single mothers rarely have free time to spend with their kids, help them with their homework, or even just take an afternoon out with them (Falana, Bada & Ayodele, 2012)
Counseling When someone is asked to give examples of heroines in society today, the picture that immediately comes to a mind is that of renowned athletes, authors, or politicians; rarely would anyone include single mothers in their list of heroines. One could then ask, how would one describe a person who is a nursemaid during the day, a mother by night, and the sole breadwinner who has to attend to the bills and ensure her kids have something to eat, as well as "decent clothing so they can go to school and look like they belong to somebody" (Huda, 2001, p
On a typical day, a working single mother with young children would have to "rush to get to work on time, race to pick up the kids at daycare and juggle an endless list of household chores before falling into bed at midnight" (Hittner as cited in Bronniman, 2008). Most single mothers actually find it difficult to engage in such female tasks as cleaning and cooking (Lleras, 2008)
Children in female-headed households lack the masculine influence of a father, find it difficult to develop self-control and are, hence, more likely to be delinquent than their counterparts in either two-parent, or male-headed families (Falana, Bada & Ayodele, 2012). In an attempt to earn the authority that a father would normally posses, single mothers often "use more dominating, hostile, and punitive disciplinary styles than do mothers in two-parent families" (Murry et al
162). Moreover, most single mothers resort to smoking due to the psychosocial stress imposed by the aspect of dual responsibility (Sperlich, Maina & Noeres, 2013)
This is why she develops a strong bond with Christophene. This "cross-racial mothering relationship" allows Antoinette to "transfer" her love, which Annette could not accept, to a surrogate (Adalgisa 62)
Race, class, gender, and power converge in the mother-daughter relationship. In Wide Sargasso Sea, the "mother-daughter trauma narrative" is "encrypted within the outer framework of the white creole historical trauma," (Burrows 27)
" This is because Eva knows her actions speak louder than words. She angrily states, "what you talkin' 'bout did I love you girl I stayed alive for you can't you get that through your thick head or what is that between your ears, heifer?" (Morrison 69)
As Rich points out, there is a myth that nurturing comes naturally to mothers. "Learning to nurture…does not come by instinct" (Rich 12)
Constant efforts are being made by the working mothers and wives to achieve the impossible standards of being the best housewives and best at their jobs. These women suffer from anxiety, hopelessness, stress, depression, low self-esteem and guilt due to their constant efforts to be perfect in all the 3 roles of being a wife, worker and a mother and their failure in getting all these roles done perfectly (Allen & Quinn 1989; Burden 1986; Campbell & Moen 1992; Hochschild 1989; 2008; Keel et al