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- 2741: Home Health Care Nursing
- ... corner. Both the patient and the nurse were put in harmful situations. (Smith 1997) As one can see, the different home environments can alarm us all. Safety should be everyones utmost concern. With these stories and numerous other stories which I am sure have not been told regarding safety, a home health nurse needs to follow rules for playing it safe. Some of the rules which would make a home health care nurse more ...
- 2742: The Real Side of Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol
- ... built up, thus meaning the more marijuana you need to get "high". Marijuana has not been proven to be physically addictive, but it is mentally addictive. People who use marijuana often, are known to have short-term memory loss. Other drugs that are used commonly are hallucinogens. These drugs are highly dangerous. People over dose all the time and are hospitalized or worse. These drugs highly addictive and more are required ... Alcohol is another addictive substance used by many people all over the world. There are many health problems that are also caused by it. Alcohol can cause serious liver damage. Drinking too much in a short period of time can lead up to alcohol poisoning. Depending on how serious the case of alcohol poisoning is, it can mean a night of throwing up or a night in the hospital. Alcohol is ...
- 2743: The Circulatory System
- ... heart is thrown forward and upward with a slight rotary motion then this impulse, called the apex beat, can be detected between the fifth and sixth ribs. The heart is entirely at rest for a short time after the ventricular systole occurs. The entire cycle can be divided into three periods then in the first, the auricles contract and in the second, the ventricles contract; in the third, both the auricles ... 3 second. Thus, the heart is completely at rest for about 0.4 second, or during perhaps half of each cardiac cycle. With every beat, the heart emits two sounds, which are followed by a short pause. The first sound, coinciding with the ventricular systole, is dull and protracted. The second sound, made by the sudden closure of the semilunar valves, is shorter and much sharper. Diseases of the heart valves ...
- 2744: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... a bathroom and killed himself. His family in Ireland kept asking, why Las Vegas? At that same pistol range, a man from Japan shot himself in his shooting stall. It's strange." I hear other stories. Of a wealthy man from Malibu, in the computer business, who committed suicide with sleeping pills and a plastic bag, in a luxury suite at the Mirage. His body was found next to the room ... the devil isn't staring you right in the face, then he's just around the corner." Little Lil, the show's three-hundred-fifty-pound comedy drag, agrees with Kerr. "I got lots of stories on the devil in Las Vegas. I helped a friend once who lost everything in a casino. House, bank account, car, the works. He was high as a kite on the Flamingo Overpass, ready to ...
- 2745: Florida Should Legalize Euthanasia
- ... health care spent to keep many of the people who live on machines from terminally or incurable diseases would be saved, many families would not have to watch there family member die slowly, and many stories like Sue Rodriguez's would never be. In the first place, health care on people with incurable or deadly diseases cannot be paid by many people because of no medical insurance according to Euthanasia questions ... the amount of money saved that is spent on keeping incurable patients alive, families of victims could live peacefully and not go under much stress knowing the victim died peacefully and not painfully, and how stories like the one of the 31-year old mother Sue Rodriguez and how she woke up every day wondering if she would choke to death in front of her children and family because the courts ...
- 2746: Patient Assisted Suicide: Whose Example Should Be Followed?
- ... they have to, but they differ in the methods in which lead up to the decision process of choosing euthanasia or not. The belief that individuals facing terminal illnesses and or certain death in a short period of time should have the "right to die with as much control and dignity as possible" is shared by both Kevorkian and Quill (Quill 434). There are many cases in which people become sick ... He meets his patients for the most part by their contacting him to perform assisted suicide. He only spends about a week with them. In Tom's case he was with him only a few short days. According to Dr. Quill "he has frequently acted without knowing people in even the most superficial way. He has no experience in end of life care
He is a pathologist, so he doesn't ...
- 2747: Cognitive Development in Children: Experiment
- ... few minutes, if you don't know the child. When the child has settled down and there is no distractions proceed with the investigation. Tell the child that you will be reading a pair of stories about children. As you read to the child change the name of each character in the story to correspond to the subjects gender. The child being read to must determine which child in the story ... The results of the children's responses are recorded on the Child Observation Project Frequency Histogram (FIG 1). The data formulated state that, the children between the ages of three & four, the score for the stories was relatively low. The children between the ages of nine to eleven the score was very high. These results indicated that the older children knew from right and wrong. Discussion "Piaget believed that all children ...
- 2748: Work Stress
- ... The natural thing to do would be to withdraw from others who do not understand their plight, resulting in profound human loneliness . The symptoms mentioned above are usually long-term effects. There are many other short term, psychological effects of stress that can be readily seen or felt. The following is by no means a definitive list of mental effects as it only illustrates some of the symptoms that could readily ... by others (low self-esteem) 11. Feelings of despair at failing as a parent 12. Feelings of dread toward an approaching weekend 13. Reluctance to vacation14. Sense that problems cannot be discussed with others 15. Short attention span 16. Claustrophobic 3.0 Management's Role in Reducing Work Stress Employee stress can have an enormous impact to an organization in terms of cost. As many studies have shown, there is a ...
- 2749: The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- ... is no effective treatment because antibiotics do not affect viruses. Many viral pneumonia cases are a result of an influenza infection and commonly affect children, however they are not usually serious and last only a short time (American Lung Association, 1996). The "virus invades the lungs and multiplies, but there are almost no physical signs of lung tissue becoming filled with fluid. It finds many of its victims among those who ... the infection. Within a few weeks the antibiotics will build the body's resistance and slow the poisons of the TB germ to prevent the patient from being contagious. An example of treatment would be short- course chemotherapy, which is the use of isoniazid (INH), rifampin, and pyrazinamide in combination for at least six months (Cook & Dresser, 1995). The drugs need to be taken for six to twelve months or there ...
- 2750: Schitzophrenia, Childhood, Mental, Anxiety and Other Disorders
- ... disorder means psycological and behavioral syndromes that deviate signicantly from those typical of human beings enjoying good mental health. All that mumbo jumbo means that a person with a mental disorder was a few cards short of a full deck. This is probably not the persons fault that they are like this they were just born this way. These people are not all a like. They are not even in exact ... Earnie took of because he thought Cat was going to kill him with his knife. Now that situation showed the mean side of Jimmy Sanders. That mean side I will call Bluegill #2. So the short term for schitzophrenia is Split Minded and that is definetly Jimmy. Jimmy has two mindes the nice Cat (Bluegill #1) is when Jimmy is seen with not so weird clothes on and he usually is ...
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