...be a successful trauma surgeon? In fact, what is trauma surgery? Trauma surgery is a surgery that treats the most severe life threatening injuries. Trauma surgeons need to know what to do with these positions and think quick about it . Most patients are in life threatening positions and need care immediately ("BestMedicalDegrees.com"). Most trauma surgeons that are not on call, work from fifty to sixty hours per week (Www.facs.org). Sometimes it is worth the hard work because the standard trauma surgeons are paid on an average of $301,774 each year (Study.com). To become a trauma surgeon one needs to know the qualifications, compensations, and responsibilities of that medical practice. Trauma surgery is one of...
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...a warm sunny day and I was in the backyard playing on my homemade wooden swing-set. My stepfather was a general contractor, so he built me and my younger sister a new swing-set. The slide was made out of copper and it had wood as the rails. As I was sliding down it my leg got to close to the side of the rail and I got a huge splinter in the side of my leg. I was crying very loudly because it hurt so bad, my mom heard me so she ran out there to see what had happened. I had to go to the emergency room to get the splinter removed so it wouldn’t get infected. I knew right then at that very moment that I wanted to be a nurse. Here are a couple things that I found to be interesting about nursing. Did you know that Jan 27th is school nurse day? Or did you know that in 1783 a black slave named James Derham worked as a nurse in New Orleans, eventually earning enough money to buy his freedom and move to Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and became a doctor? And I also bet that you didn’t know that the largest demand for Licensed Practical Nurses through 2110 will be in nursing homes? Or that the 4th week of May is National Nurses week, which is coming up pretty soon. And May 8th is national Student Nurses’ day (Start a nurse staffing agency). Well I didn’t know any of that either until I started my paper on my nursing career. In December 2010 I finished my schooling for a Licensed Practical Nurse at the JCTC Campus in the accelerated program. I chose to start out at...
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... That faith does not have to be in God but it does have to be a faith in something that you believe with protect you and see you through life’s trials. While a belief in something other than God many help a person in the short term, it will ultimately fail them as everything falls short of the Lord. What is Resilience? Simply defined, resilience is the ability bounce back or recoil after being mashed, twisted, or bent. This is a fitting definition as I know that when I have been faced with trauma, I often felt mashed, twisted, or bent. It is such a simple word with a simple meaning but putting into action can often feel almost impossible. Putting this into action requires strength. A person needs to have a strong resolve and a strong faith in order to bounce back in the face of trauma. We are faced with some sort of trauma on an almost daily basis (Maddi, 2013). From the moment we are born we are participating in the Resilience Life Cycle (Dees & Huckabee, 2011). This applies to people of all ages. Trauma and the ability to recover from it start the minute we are born. The actual act of being born is a traumatic experience in and of itself. Resilience is something we are born with and also something we can strengthen and grow as we get older. Many studies have shown the resilience of children to recover from serious traumatic events. However that resiliency is fostered through a positive development...
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...Why I Want To Purse My BSN Degree I was taken away from my parents at the age of one year old and placed into a foster home; because my parents were on drugs, and my father abused my sister’s. I have a total of ten siblings, five sisters and five brothers. They were taken away from my parents as well at a younger age and placed into foster care, we all lived in different foster homes. I left my foster home at eighteen years old. I stayed in school but my main goal then was to build a closer relationship with my siblings. My past is my testimony, and it build me to become this stronger, intelligent, humble, and goal oriented woman today. When I was sixteen years old, I was on the nursing board at my church. I enjoyed the feeling of helping others at church; especially, when a church member faint, due to the pastor preaching. I was always ready on the spot to assist with a warm towel and bottle of water....
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...10/27/2011 Arnold Palmer Hospital Is First to Receive New FDA-Approved X-ray Imaging Technology New System Dramatically Cuts Radiation Exposure for Young Patients MEDIA CONTACT Geo Morales, APR 321.841.5766 geo.morales@orlandohealth.com | | |Orlando, FL (October 27, 2011) - Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is the first hospital in the United States to receive innovative | |new x-ray imaging technology that decreases radiation exposure to young patients and produces high-quality images. The system, | |manufactured by Siemens, is called Luminos Agile and received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in June 2011. | |A key feature on the Luminos Agile system is a large flat-panel detector that enables physicians to examine an image that is up to 117 | |percent larger than images generated by older technology. A larger image allows physicians to examine a wider area of the anatomy | |without repositioning the patient - reducing scan times and radiation dose. | |Luminos Agile delivers a package of features designed to increase patient comfort and enhance efficiency in the exam room. It offers the| |flexibility of a table that adjusts height from 25 inches to 44 inches to easily accommodate children and patients with mobility | |challenges. The adjustable table also has a weight capacity of 600 pounds and a 24-inch wide opening to provide easy...
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...As a victim of childhood abuse I can tell you that life was difficult. From having to see my perpetrator, my father, in court, every 3-5 years, to seeing other abused children suffer as they came into adulthood with finding jobs, I realized that I had it lucky. I was one of the lucky ones. Seeing perpetrators in court and being limited to what jobs I could have (Lincoln County CAC), all based on the things my perpetrator did to me when I was a child, wasn’t fair. I didn’t do anything wrong, yet here I was being punished once again for something that I had no control over. For me, it was only seeing my father in the courtroom but for many of my friends and the cases that were going on during the same time period as mine, the girls and boys...
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...program. These models have greatly helped leaders as the outcomes have benefited from careful planning. As decision-makers have gained great amounts of knowledge and experience, I have experience that collaboration within a group can be best effective when these factors are used. This allows different perspectives to be realized and produce a more professional product. Continuous quality improvement does not just happen, it has to be planned and managed using tools such as PDCA and DMAIC. If you want to be better than your competitors and to flourish as a business then you must ensure that business processes are continually improved (Liesener). In order to do this action plans need to be developed. For many employees, experienced or less experienced, the variety of problem-solving approaches for action plans can get confusing. But there are not so many differences between these approaches, as you could expect. All differences are depending only on the type of problem, which has to be solved. Various problem-solving approaches like PDCA and DMAIC can be sorted in the following categories (Liesener): 1. Is it a small, medium or large sized problem you want to solve and is the solution of the problem unknown? 2. Does your problem solving strategy follow a continuous improvement process or do you want solve a single problem (e.g. a customer complaint)? What do these approaches have in common? They follow a scientific and methodic way to solve the problem. In addition to...
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...Case study: Erectile dysfunction from torture by Laleh Yaghoubi The following is a case study of a male client, Mubilajeh, suffering from a sexual disorder (impotence). Erectile disorder, the inability to have an erection or maintain one, is currently the most common sexual disorder among men (Hyde 468). One result of erectile disorder is that the man cannot engage in sexual intercourse. For many men, including this individual, psychological reactions to erectile disorder may be severe: embarrassment, depression, and anxiety. The client was diagnosed and given an assessment with the goal of determining the factors. Through a process of discovery, the client's history finally revealed that the impotence was actually a result of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by a past experience. People with PTSD fear re-experiencing a traumatic event and sometimes are unable to remember certain aspects (Barlow 138). However, through psychoanalytic therapy, this client illustrates a successful recovery. Patient This section presents a brief patient assessment, including a case history of the client considered in the study. Mubilajeh, thin proportioned and nearly seven feet tall, is a thirty-year-old African male originally from Nigeria. He is a peaceful and proud African man. He has been married to his wife, Zhane, for nine years, and they hope to have children very soon. At the age of fourteen, Mubilajeh's father passed away, which left his...
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...Sports Injuries While researching further into the major of Physical Therapy, there was a topic that kept resurfacing. That topic was adolescent sports injuries and why/how they occur. Injuries from sports participation are a substantial cause of hospitals visits and medical bills. Sport injuries are the second leading cause of ER visits for adolescents. As I dived deeper into researching this topic I came across scholarly articles though places such as JSTOR, Google scholar, and more through the library databases. One of my favorite articles that I used throughout the semester was Taft’s. Although this article might be slightly out-of-date I think the information is still respectable and still truthful to the current date. Timothy...
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...Introduction The samples below are papers by students, unless specifically noted. They are examples of "A" level undergraduate writing or entry-level professional work. To get a better idea of how this type of paper is written, you will want to look at all the samples. Then compare the samples to each other and to what the "Basics" part of this chapter says. The authors of all sample student papers in this Web site have given their permission in writing to have their work included in WritingforCollege.org. All samples remain copyrighted by their original authors. Other than showing it on this website, none should be used without the explicit permission of the author. If you do not have time to read every sample below, word for word, then use a form of skim reading: read the entire introduction and conclusion paragraph of a sample, and then read just the first and last sentence of all the other paragraphs in the sample. This method of skimming often provides an understanding of the basic contents and of the paper's form or structure. Another method of faster reading is to choose just one or two of the samples that are most like the paper you will be required to write; then read, either fully or using skim reading as described here. Unless otherwise noted, sample papers do not necessarily meet all requirements an individual instructor or professional supervisor may have: ask your instructor or supervisor. In addition, the samples single spaced to save room; however...
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...mother and father about everything. “Why are there so many people asking for money?” and “why are the dogs so skinny you could see every rib in their body?” are the questions I would ask my dad every time we would cross the border to visit my family. I have to thank those memories for they have embarked the person that I am today. Coming from a Hispanic family has made me value all of the opportunities life has to offer. Most importantly, my heritage is a constant reminder to always keep my feet on the ground and achieve all the goals I have set out for myself. However, this mentality...
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...Casualties of Law Enforcement: Homicide and Suicide Katherine Nielsen Buena Vista University Online Abstract This work is an overview of the increase in deaths of law enforcement agents: those killed on duty and those who kill themselves. As per a yearly report (Berman, 2014), the number of law enforcement agents killed while working rose almost a quarter this past year compared to years prior, especially ambush-style killings. Police officers across the country face potential dangers on their job, and they are a target simply because they are in uniform. As well, every 17 hours an officer commits suicide (Berman, 2014). This paper explores the correlation of the stress experienced by law enforcement associated with general strain theory (GST). GST is an explanation for suicide ideation for law enforcement officers. Other articles observe that police officers may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a critical incident or a traumatic experience. PTSD awareness is critical for saving lives. Why is there an increase in law enforcement deaths and suicides, and what needs to occur to change this trend? Keywords: post-traumatic stress disorder, general strain theory Introduction There were 50 officers murdered by shootings in 2014, a huge leap from the 32 such deaths a year prior (Berman, 2014). One officer killed is one officer too many, and this trend needs to be reversed. How does society stop this? Altogether, 126 law enforcement officers died in...
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...treatment outcomes, so AI can be used by a decision support system as pattern recognition to analyze healthcare data and generate a representation of knowledge and make a decision support. One of this AI technologies tools is the Artificial Neural Networks which work much like the human brain and have the ability to learn from training data and store knowledge in the network. It maps relationship between inputs and the corresponding expected outputs. Neural networks have found the majority of their application in time series prediction, signal processing, and financial forecasting and especially in health care as pattern recognition. 2. At the Mayo Clinic, patients are given opt-in and opt-out rights concerning whether or not their information is used in the system that determines the most appropriate therapies given the specific patient profile. So far, 95 percent of the patients have opted to have their information included in the system. (This is the notion of opting in.) Why do you believe that 5 percent of the patients have opted out? Would you opt in or opt out in this case? Please provide your reasoning. -For me, I think the reason why 5 percent of the patients have opted out because they want to secure their privacy. I think not of all the people are willing to share or give information about them especially when it is confidential. 3. In this case, demographic information such as ethnicity, gender, and age greatly...
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...W O M E N ’ S C O M M I S S I O N for refugee women & children w U N TA P P E D P OT E N T I A L : Adolescents affected by armed conflict A review of programs and policies U N TA P P E D P OT E N T I A L : Adolescents affected by armed conflict A review of programs and policies Wo m e n ’s C o m m i s s i o n f o r R e f u g e e Wo m e n & C h i l d r e n N e w Yo r k W O M E N ’ S C O M M I S S I O N for refugee women & children Copyright © January 2000 by Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-58030-000-6 Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children 122 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10168-1289 tel. 212.551.3111 or 3088 fax. 212.551.3180 e-mail: wcrwc@intrescom.org www.intrescom.org/wcrwc.html w cover photographs © Rachel K. Jones, Marc Sommers, Sarah Samson, Holly Myers, Anne-Sophie Rosette, International Rescue Committee M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children seeks to improve the lives of refugee women and children through a vigorous program of public education and advocacy, and by acting as a technical resource. The Commission, founded in 1989 under the auspices of the International Rescue Committee, is the only organization in the United States dedicated solely to speaking out on behalf of women and children uprooted by armed conflict or persecution. Acknowledgments The Women’s Commission expresses its sincere...
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...Imagine the ambulance service in your town was shut down and taken over by the fire department. That is exactly what could happen here in Decatur, Illinois. On November 18th, 2014, many employees and supporters of Decatur Ambulance service gathered at the Civic Center and sat in on a Decatur City Council meeting. Ryan McCrady, the city manager, released his plans for the 2015 city budget. In this budget McCrady made it possible for Decatur Fire department to acquire equipment that would be found on an ambulance. This equipment would also allow the department to start providing some emergency transport services. McCrady believes that this investment will eventually pay for itself. Allowing the fire department to take over transporting patients...
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