...time, when everything around us says give up. It is the driving force for all types of success. Personal Goal One of my personal goals is to slow down the process of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in my health. I have a very strong family history and background of DM. Diabetes is a disease in which a person has a high blood sugar. Diabetes is due to pancreas not producing enough insulin or the body does not respond properly to the insulin produced. Controlling the progression of diabetes in my health will prolong my life expectancy. Prevention involves modification in diet, physical exercise, and avoiding the use of tobacco or smoking. A yearly physical examination and regular monitoring of blood sugar as well as laboratory work for diagnosis of diabetes are routinely done by my primary doctor. All these measures aid me in regulating my blood sugar and achieving my goal to delay the progression of diabetes in my system and prolonging my lifespan. My only challenge that I face for not reaching my goal is when my motivation fades and declines because of changes in my attitudes and behaviors. Being an active participant for the benefit of my health I know I am able to accomplish my goal. Having an extensive knowledge about diabetes to be a chronic metabolic disease and being in the medical field is a big help to keep on track. Being a nurse as my profession, I consider my development level to be highly competent and highly committed on attaining and maintaining...
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...8-week scheme would surely but multiply. While the freedom at my fingertips was invigorating, there was the gnawing sense that failure to grasp the key issues involved would lead to the teacher’s greatest fear – wasted lessons; wasted lessons after which the class would struggle to maintain a respect for the teacher. Furthermore, it would be the waste of an outstanding opportunity. As commentators to the publication Teaching History have repeatedly stressed, the new History National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 offers teachers a ‘glorious flexibility’ to throw out the straight-jacket of centralised requirements beholden to political overlords (Dawson 2008, 18). Instead, led by a relit passion for their discipline, teachers are able to respond to the very specific needs of their school and construct personalised routes towards a variety of objectives. For some commentators, the National Curriculum Key Concepts and their accompanying levels represent the vestiges of an ancien regime of central control that prevent true pupil ownership developing (see Knight 2008). However, a determination to facilitate pupil progression in six concepts at the heart of our subject should be valued as a way to structure our planning, teaching and assessment. What is more, aspiring to teach such crucial concepts – in addition to the corresponding Key Processes – should complement rather than devalue what is, in my opinion, the history teacher’s unique advantage; insodoing, it would release our subject...
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... Montoya Page 1 Introduction Nursing is a profession that is ever changing. Early historian nurses are accountable for many of the changes and progression that we see today. We as well are equally responsible for this progression of the nursing profession. One example of the progression in nursing was the start of the Associate degree of nursing program. The nurses who finish this program are known as ADN’s. Since the ADN program was initiated there have been many debates on the differences between ADN’s and Bachelor degree nurses (BSN’s). Where does this topic stand today? What does the future hold for the ADN’s? History of the ADN Nursing shortage has been a challenge in nursing through out time. In 1951 Mildred Montag developed a two year associate degree program for nurses. The purpose of this program was to help with the nursing shortage. Studies were done five years after of the start of this program and showed it to be successful because these nurses demonstrated clinical competency. Today the ADN program still exists. ADN’s are expected to take and pass the same state licensure exam as BSN’s. When passed, the same license is issued to the ADN as the BSN. Both can apply and be considered for entry level nursing positions. This has led to much confusion in the eyes of the public and in the world of nursing. What is the difference between ADN’s and BSN’s? Educational Differences The associate degree program is a two year degree program...
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... Montoya Page 1 Introduction Nursing is a profession that is ever changing. Early historian nurses are accountable for many of the changes and progression that we see today. We as well are equally responsible for this progression of the nursing profession. One example of the progression in nursing was the start of the Associate degree of nursing program. The nurses who finish this program are known as ADN’s. Since the ADN program was initiated there have been many debates on the differences between ADN’s and Bachelor degree nurses (BSN’s). Where does this topic stand today? What does the future hold for the ADN’s? History of the ADN Nursing shortage has been a challenge in nursing through out time. In 1951 Mildred Montag developed a two year associate degree program for nurses. The purpose of this program was to help with the nursing shortage. Studies were done five years after of the start of this program and showed it to be successful because these nurses demonstrated clinical competency. Today the ADN program still exists. ADN’s are expected to take and pass the same state licensure exam as BSN’s. When passed, the same license is issued to the ADN as the BSN. Both can apply and be considered for entry level nursing positions. This has led to much confusion in the eyes of the public and in the world of nursing. What is the difference between ADN’s and BSN’s? Educational Differences The associate degree program is a two year degree program...
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...As a native Washingtonian, social change is something that I have witnessed my entire life. Whether that was observing how District of Columbia’s government approached the city’s faulty public educational system, or how social media enhanced efforts for demonstrations on Capitol Hill. In each example social change has afforded progression. And it’s important to tell the stories that are writing our country’s history, which is something I’ve always had a passion for. When it comes to being a Production Assistant, I not only have the excitement and drive to assist in telling stories through video, but also the skill set. I’ve had the pleasure of not only working in film settings as an aspiring producer, but also within the broadcast field at...
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...Emperor. This held influence in the Divine Comedy. In trying to get these ideas out the people Dante wrote the epic poem in the vernacular of the Italian people. The Divine Comedy is centered on Dante and his two guides. The poem takes the reader on a journey with Dante and his guides through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. This is accomplished through the poem being broken up into three main canticles. Each one of these canticles contains thirty-three cantos. The number three is an important Christian symbol as it symbolizes the Trinity. This is important to Dante in his poem due to his religious beliefs. As the reader gets a literal description on Dante’s travels, the reader symbolically gains insight on how people viewed the progression of a person’s soul toward God. The first canticle is about Dante’s and his guide, Virgil’s, descent through the ten circles of Hell. As they descend through Hell the reader learns about the 10 circles. The deeper in Hell the worse your sin is considered. The sins that represented the circles included lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy and more. The reader also learns that the punishment a soul in Hell receives is tailored to the sin they committed. For example fortune tellers have their heads placed on backwards so they cannot see what lay ahead. Heretics are buried in tombs that burn forever. Lastly Dante...
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...Perspective on Health Care HCS/212 The history of health care has changed dramatically in the United States over the last 100 years. The most significant of those changes have occurred within the last 40 years. My personal interest in the history of health care is the advancement of technology and the progression of procedures to deliver adequate health care to everyone. Changing strategies to improve health care and access to healthcare for everyone is an area that I am interested in pursuing. I have experienced two different levels of healthcare in my life that have given me the opportunity of experiencing positive and negative outcomes to both levels. I will attempt to explain my experiences, opinions and research about the history of health care in the United States and the resources that I have found to be reliable. One of the biggest interests I have about the history of health care is the vast amount of changes and advancements that have taken place in recent decades. The origin of our modern system of healthcare can be traced to the beginning of the twentieth century. It went from an inadequate and primitive, but relatively inexpensive, health care service to a quality care that is far better and technologically advanced coming at a very high price tag. With advancement in the health care field, we have adopted more complexities in costs, insurance, and available coverage that is very confusing for many. Even though we have progressed in advanced medicine...
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...Bird Flu of H5N1 virus threatens world pandemic Public health has traditionally been an area of concern as anything that poses a threat to humans should be considered a top priority societally. From a global standpoint if public health is neglected then the amount of preventable deaths would rise exponentially. In the past few years several events have been noted as threats to public health, but society had identified them quick enough so that the threat to humans was minimized. One such event occurred in 2006 and was known as the bird flu. Although there is currently no vaccine for this strain of bird flu the rapid identification of this deadly virus helped to minimize its spread. According to Medline, birds just like humans can be stricken with the flu but the virus historically only affected avian species without the potential to affect humans. This remained true until 1997 in Hong Kong when the first case of the avian flu was reported. This avian virus has the ability to mutate or change its genetic makeup so that it can be easily incorporated into the human genome, thus causing a new form of flu that can be deadly and difficult to treat. Since 1997 the avian flu has spread to several countries and has severely affected both the commercial poultry supply and humans alike. Although the viral transition to infecting humans is rare, the avian flu is responsible for approximately 600 infections since its inception with a mortality rate of 60% (National Library of Medicine...
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...In this essay I am explaining why the African American has more African-ness the Nigerian Americans. I will examine the origin and the different aspects of the African American culture. I will also examine how the African culture is so rich in the American world and changed many aspect of the everyday life in the new world. Slavery predates back to the 18th century from when African Americans were enslaved. People of color were bought, sold, and used to work on farms, and in the household of their white masters. The progression of African American culture has progressed by leaps and bounds since the1800’s. It took a long time for slaves to be given their freedom. Although they were free, the reconstruction plan was a starting point, which in turn allowed former slaves to become freedmen. Freedmen who were allowed to own land and become upstanding citizen just like their white counterparts. The freed slaves went on to become prominent business owners and family men. They were still some racists who were appalled that they were allowed to go free. Slaves were not allowed to learn how to read and therefore could not read the bible. It was a way for the salves masters to protect themselves from the slaves getting a silly notion of equality from the bible. Religion became a big issue within the African American community. Black churches were established to allow them to come, worship, and not be segregated from their white counterparts. Even during slavery, they would...
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...healing In the history of medicine, progression, innovation, and challenging thought processes has brought us to the way of operation in healthcare today. Society’s understanding of health and wellness reflects progressive movement as evidenced by Dossey’s three eras of medicine. Era I formed in the 1800’s held beliefs that “health and illness were completely physical in nature” (citation). This view focused solely on the physical symptoms of health, and treatment choices reflected these practices. It was not believed to look at the whole body and person in aspects of healing. Treatment was limited to surgical procedures and drugs. With advancements of medicine and different approaches to healing, a new framework of operational thought is used in the world. Era III is the most recent and sophisticated model. This model began in the 1990’s and still has developing concepts today. In this era “consciousness is nonlocal and not bound to the individual body” (citation). Era III utilizes the concept of the “whole person” and how thoughts, experiences, and physical aspects have an effect on our health and the health of those that are close to us. Differences pertaining to professional presence In my career as a public health nurse, my professional presence most closely resembles that of Era III, the bio-physical model. Incorporating community and family members is an integral part of health promotion and wellness. In my role of maternal child health...
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...Throughout history there have been an array of diseases and illnesses, everything from the common cold to epidemics that have decimated populations. Medical Science has progressed to the point that many diseases are now treatable, curable, or even extinct. Yet even with this incredible progress there are still many diseases that remain not only without a cure, but without even effective treatments. One of these diseases is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease as it is commonly known, is a degenerative disease affecting the nervous system and the only outcome is death. Let’s take a look at the symptoms and how the effect they have on ALS patients. The early symptoms are slight and hardly noticed, they are easy for victim’s to ignore and even easier for physician’s to misdiagnosis. Early symptoms include muscle weakness, fatigue, and a heavy or numb feeling in the arms and legs. These symptoms begin slowly as simply dropping things or tripping frequently. Then the symptoms begin to cause a lot more problems that are much more difficult to ignore. Patients begin having trouble with things we do every day without really even having to think much about them. As this disease progresses into the more advanced stages victims experience difficulty with swallowing, breathing will become difficult and leave the patient at high risk for pneumonia and they lose the ability to speak. The only abilities spared by this devasting disease are brain function, eye...
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...manifested in your personality, personal history and lineage? --- As I was reflecting on this intently, I came across this online article from Harvard Business Review where Peter Drucker, one of the most influential people in the area of modern management, talked about the topic on managing oneself. And an excerpt from this article below quite interests me the most. “Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. More often, people know what they are not good at—and even then more people are wrong than right. And yet, a person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weaknesses, let alone on something one cannot do at all.” - by Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review: “Managing Oneself”; http://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself/ar/1 This struck me quite a bit as I found this a bit ironic, because this somehow describes how things are unravelling, particularly on the state of my profession right now, and the state of things, in general. Well, I am not quite sure what I’m really good at. It’s not like I’m inept. It’s just that I am not sure if I’m really good at something. I’ve always engaged myself with so many things back then as my personal history reveals, as “jack of all trades, master of none” identity. For example, I have passion for creating music – composing lyrics and arranging the melody. I played rhythm/lead guitar in a local “rock” band way back my entire college days. I would say I was an...
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...Care Crystal Crawford University Of Phoenix HCS/212-Health Care Vocabulary JoAnn Dade May 4, 2013 New To Health Care In healthcare there has always been interesting things that have changed the face of healthcare today. These changes need to be understood in order to know how healthcare got started and why it continues to be a growing concern for individuals in the United States. Before 1920 most people had no healthcare coverage (U.S. Healthcare History, 2013). Before this time doctors were not charging much for their services. However, as time progressed doctors stated to learned more about diseases and treatments and with this progression they started charging more for the services rendered. These new charging were often more than people could afford at the time. Doctors found that they needed to treated more people in hospitals in order to take advantage of the new technology which added to the cost of care for these individuals. The Great Depression only made the cost of these treatments worse for patients. In the 1930s Blue Cross was born to help people pay their hospital bills ("Stay smart, stay healthy," 2013). The healthcare industry offers plenty of profitable careers. Most of the best paid and fast growing careers belong to the healthcare industry. According...
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...The Tuskegee Study is known as the most infamous and the longest nontherapeutic experiment performed on humans in the history of medicine and public health .The U.S. Public Health Service it conducted between 1932 and 1972 to study the normal progression of untreated syphilis. The study was performed in Macon County, Alabama, where 400 African-American men with active syphilis and 200 uninfected men as controls were incorporated. The subjects were not made aware about the disease, nor were they treated a drug penicillin which was already validated and was known as effective cure for the disease by 1950. The patients were selected and allured by saying that they are being subjected to free medical treatment “bad blood” which was referred to any ailment in the native. The experiment was carried on up to 40 years and many of the untreated participants died in the due course, and autopsies were performed by doctors without permission. The study did not stop until Peter Buxtun, approached the press reporter and shared the truth about the study and its unethical methods. Fred Gray, a civil rights attorney, filed a $1.8 billion class action lawsuit that resulted in a $10 million out-of-court settlement for the victims, their families, and their heirs (Gray, 1998). On May 16, 1997 President Clinton...
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...Progression of black rights during 1945-1955 can be clearly seen but was a long and slow process, although the awareness of racial equality dramatically increased. Various factors were involved. Factors such as: presidential involvement and the use of media post WW2.We also see improvements in education and NAACP. More importantly how the NAACP and southern states responded to these factors, later shaping the result to black civil rights. During this time America saw two presidents come to power: Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). Both of which affected the civil rights movements in different ways. Truman who was vice president to Roosevelt was elected officially in 1948, Born in Missouri in the late 19th century he had been brought up in an area that saw racism towards coloured people as a natural occurrence, and this was also the case for Truman. Truman had first encountered blacks as family servants with his ancestors previously owning slaves. Truman had told his sweet heart Bess that: “One man is as good as another, “So long as he is honest, decent and not a Nigger or a Chinaman”. (Sanders, 2003, p60) So he is an unlikely candidate to eventually be bringing the lack of rights of the blacks to light and standing behind the civil rights movement later in his career. With the number of racial murders on the rise in the south, Truman set up and implemented a civil rights committee to produce a report “Secure These Rights” brought attention to the...
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