1 Running Head: Doctoral Readiness and Sense Making Doctoral Readiness and Sense- Making Annette Tucker Osborne University of Phoenix 1. What is a doctorate? According to Wellington text, how is a professional doctorate different from a traditional PhD? As I understand it, a doctorate degree is “an academic university qualification that requires research above a Masters’ Degree level. It is an academic degree or professional degree that qualifies the holder to teach at the university
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Progress Note Good morning Ms. Ella Smith, I see that you are here about the diagnosis of your father’s condition. I am prepared to explain the condition of your father. Mr. Drake was admitted to the hospital by ambulance he was suffering from fever and confusion. Mr. Drake had a physical examination done and he is suffering (encephalitis) inflammation of the brain tissue. Mr. Drake was given fluids through the IV to treat the infection around the brain tissue. Mr. Drake was placed on medication
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Processed Foods in the American Diet DeVry University Processed Foods in the American Diet According to the New York Coalitions for Healthy School Food, approximately 62 percent of American’s daily caloric intake come from processed foods. If you consider that twelve percent, in addition to that, comes from the “Plant Food” category, and even up to half of that may still be considered “processed” due to preservatives and freezing; that makes the food we consume to be up to 74 percent processed
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Adjustment Case Study PSY 100 Tiffany McKenzie Dysheka Barber December 16, 2015 Adjustment Case Study In this paper I will give the summaries of two stories retrieved from NPR’s StoryCorps Website. I will then identify and describe the major adjustment issues present in each story. Next I will examine a few strategies that could be used by the individuals in the stories to help them adjust. Finally, I will recommend the best strategy, in my opinion, that
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Antidepressants and the Body Many people in America take millions of pills, syrups and potions and ingest it in some form or another on a daily basis. It is helpful to know exactly what happens inside our bodies when we take some form of medication. Medicines work in a variety of ways depending on what they are taken for and in what form. Medication has a route and form in which they are taken. Medications can be taken in oral which would be a pill or liquid, sublingual in tablet or drops, topically
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Compromise For The Green The legalization of cannabis, or marijuana, for medical usage is a controversial topic among a substantial number of individuals. Many people argue that cannabis is an effective way to treat a wide range of diseases/disorders. As also, a numerous number of others contend that cannabis is not an effective way to help treat these diseases/disorders. Personally, I believe that cannabis for medicinal usage should be legalized because it has more benefits than risks. The smoking
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control, social behavioral or motivation. In view of the above symptoms, nursing care is important to help the patient in management of the condition. According to statistics It is estimated that 24.3 million people have dementia worldwide (Alzheimer’s Association, 2009) and with the United Kingdom (UK) having over 700,000 people with dementia, a condition costing the economy a staggering £17 billion a year (DH, 2009). As the dementia patients cannot explain their symptoms, care is based on the
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The Meaning of Poetry Alzheimer’s is written by Kelly Cherry and is about an old man who was once young, free, and living a happy life with the women he once called his wife. The women may still be considered his wife, but he has no recognition of her being any part of his life when he is welcomed back home by her. This proves a point that you must not take things for granite in life because one day something like this could happen to anybody. You
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diseases categorized by clinicians as movement disorders. Parkinson's disease Triggers In Canada alone there is over 100,000 Canadians affected by Parkinson's disease. It is the second most common neurodegenerative disease (after Alzheimer’s disease). Parkinson’s disease is most commonly found in people who are older than 50; the average age at which it occurs is over 60. But some younger people may also get Parkinson's disease younger than 40, it's called early-onset Parkinson's disease
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need it most. Marijuana is not only used to obtain a high for teenagers, but for any patient with medical issues that can be ingested to fit the patient’s need. Such issues that can be helped from cannabis include helping patient’s symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, various symptoms for cancer patients, and palliative care for the end of life process. Marijuana can be ingested in a variety of ways. The most common form is smoking it in the form of a cigarette and inhaling it through a glass pipe
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