Head: BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION Nursing student perceptions and incidence of performing breast self-examinations related to educational level in a baccalaureate nursing program Teresa Fulton Erin Kane Lisa Travers Caitlin Van Brunt Nursing of Department The University of Scranton Intro/Lit review: Cancer is one of the most pervasive diseases in the world today. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women, second to skin cancer. According to the American Cancer Society
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their community. Let’s take “Earth hour” as an example; it started in 2007 in a small city in Australia, Earth Hour aimed to create among Australians on the issue of climate change. Thanks for social media; Earth hour is now the biggest ever-public awareness campaign about environment. More over, Earth hour now is not only about “no electric for 1
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Mei Chew Professor Casprowitz SCN 195/7752 January 14, 2012 Advocacy Letter Dear Dr. Thomas A. Farley, Commissioner, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, My name is Mei Chew and I am a Nursing student at LaGuardia Community College. I am currently taking Community Health course whereby we have an assignment to look into the health issues in our neighborhood. In examining the Community Health Profiles, Second Edition-2006, from New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, I
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING CARE HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING CARE Donna Pisarski Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Ms. Renita Holmes September 21, 2012 Health Promotion in Nursing Care This paper will discuss health promotion and what health care changes are occurring. Through the expanding role in nursing this paper discusses what those roles will entail and the use of primary, secondary, and tertiary care when developing a patient centered
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Abstract— Cancer is the most important cause of death for both men and women. Earlier diagnosis of Lung Cancer saves enormous lives, failing which may lead to other severe problems causing sudden death. Its cure rate and prediction depends mainly on the early detection and diagnosis of the disease. Examine the potential use of classification based data mining techniques such as Rule based, Decision tree, naive bayes and Artificial Neural Network to massive volume of healthcare data. It is an extension
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Selling ideas can be a very challenging process for a marketer to carry out, particularly when the ideas are centred on modifying someone’s particular beliefs and lifestyle choices. Social marketing is a concept that is used to market this selling of ideas and in this report we shall examine the concept of social marketing in relation to alcohol abuse in Scotland. We shall look to devise a direct marketing campaign to provide a solution to the problems behind alcohol abuse in Scotland. We shall
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Case Study: The Dannon Company OL 690: Responsible Corporate Leadership Southern New Hampshire University March 25th, 2015 Introduction Danone, the parent company and U.S. subsidiary of Dannon, was founded in Barcelona Spain in 1919 by Isaac Carasso (Marquis, Shah, Tolleson, & Thomason, 2011). Isaac had the goal of developing a yogurt for more than the purpose of taste, but with additional inherent health benefits (Marquis, et al., 2011). The health benefits were based on the use of
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Navigation and the Impact on Breast Care Christina Reid-Brown California Baptist University Foundations of Management BUS 503A February 9, 2015 Dr. Marc Weinger Abstract This research paper evaluated the relationship between navigation and navigator roles as they relate to the patient journey with breast cancer. The goal of the research was to determine if these care coordination models eliminated institutional barriers experienced by patients
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Joseph Rotondi Mikhoel Siyanov Maria Santos Verdiner Wolf Abram Zavulunov Group 6: HPV as a leading cause of Cancer Human papillomavirus (HPV) was founded in the 1950s as a virus infection that is associated to many cancers. It is primarily transmitted through sexual contact and less intimate skin-to-skin contact. Preventions have been implemented to raise awareness of the virus. The first vaccine for HPV approved as a widespread use in the US was in 2006. The virus acts to infect the keratinocytes
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What is cancer? Cancer is basically the roof that houses many diseases. It is a general name for all the different types of diseases that fall under the category of the true definition of cancer. Cancer: a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis or an abnormal bodily state marked by such tumors. Statistically, half of all male population and one third of women will develop cancer in their lifetime. New drugs for Cancer are being
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