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DIF: Cognitive Level: Application z z REF: Page 6 z z
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their point of view, from the clinician’s vantage, when new protocols are being put into practice, a
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis z z REF: Page 4 z z
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order to determine the effect upon the elders’ level of orientation. (The dogs’ level of orientation
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a. Control
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lves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena and, sometimes, the relation
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a. Control
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harnesses and the subsequent rate of children’s spinal cord injury will consequently utilize whic
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