Post Nasal Drip (or PND). Mucus draining down the back of the throat over the back of the tongue where the bad breath bacteria live. They feed off the proteins in mucus and create strong odors. If you still have your tonsils, you may be harboring a higher number of the bacteria in the crevices of your tonsils.
Our Professional Practice Model, adapted from Hoffart and Woods (1996)1, contains the values, structures, and processes that support registered nurse control of the delivery of nursing care and the environment in which care is delivered. The center of the model is the patient and family.
2. Experts describe nursing as a cycle of nursing research, practice, and theory, with entry into this cycle from any point. I disagree with this statement. First of all, research, practice, and theory omit some emphatically important other facets of the cycle, such as reflection, the development and application of insights, and interaction with and feedback from both patients and others. Second, entry into the cycle from any point could be disastrous.