Case #1: Jim and Jane Magnolia have tried for years to conceive a child, with no success. So instead, they have decided to adopt a child. They have found a beautiful little girl named Emma who has been given up by her mother. The child, only two weeks old, was born at the mother’s home and has not received any medical attention beyond that given by EMS during the birth. 1. Should the parents be particularly concerned with Emma’s lack of medical attention? Yes, the child has only been seen by local
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C228 - Community Health Nursing – Task 1 Christi Corder Western Governors University Identification of Community Greenville County is located in upstate South Carolina along Interstate 85. It is found halfway between Atlanta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina. Greenville is part of the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area and is the largest city in this area (“Greenville, South Carolina,” n.d.). Approximately 59.7% of the population consists of individuals
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Executive Summary Over the past decade, Ohio has wavered from either the 7th or 8th largest economy amongst the states according to GDP. On the positive side, Ohio has maintained a lower cost of doing business than most, if not all, of its neighbors. Ohio is centrally located with many major manufacturing facilities in the United States. Secondly, the state of Ohio has the lowest tax rate on new capital investment in the Midwest and the third lowest in the U.S. for most of the last decade. Negatively
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Case Study 11 Karley Lapointe Liberty University Abstract C.W. is a patient with a gastrointestinal bleed that produced a duodenal ulcer. This ulcer then produced a bloody diarrhea stool. C.W. Was brought to the emergency room with by his wife for having bloody diarrhea for three days and was presenting signs of weakness and hypotension. C.W. underwent surgery for his gastrointestinal bleed and then was admitted to the hospital for having a fluid volume deficit, due to his diarrhea and bleed
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Anemia in Chemotherapy Patients Anemia: Side Effect of Chemotherapy BIOS 260 Section B 2/4/2012 Anemia and Chemotherapy Patients For patients receiving chemotherapy, anemia can be a common side effect . The big question, though is, why is anemia a common side effect for these patients? In order to be able to answer that question, the understanding of what both anemia and chemotherapy is necessary. Once that understanding is clear, then the causes can be analyzed. From that analysis
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What short-term impact did black power and black radicalism have on the black civil rights movement in the period 1965-69? Black power can be seen as having a big short-term impact as it changed the civil rights movement pushing it away from integration, to separation with a more superior black race. The main positive accomplishment for the movement was that it “raised morale of many black Americans” by giving a new found pride and improvement of black “Self image.” However, the movement was
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to display strips of fat. Over time and with age, the fat builds up, causing small damage to your blood vessel walls. The fat turns eventually turns into plaque, as time goes by, the inside of the arteries develop plaques of different sizes. (Cleveland clinic). Being overweight or obese can lead to an accumulation of plaque in arteries. A plaque can rupture, causing a clot to form, and can dangerously lead to a stroke. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, if you are overweight
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Joana Socarras ENC1101 Professor Gray November 20, 2013 Do we really love animals? The truth behind animal research and testing Animal research and testing has been a huge controversial topic in the U.S. For many years, lots of organizations like PETA have created movements to eliminate this completely but without very much success. Personally, I can’t find any positives to animal research and testing but the majority of the U.S population does since animals are used in most major companies
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The Adkins Diet vs. the South Beach Diet Tonya Richardson COM 155 May 5, 2012 Michele Armentrout The Adkins Diet vs. the South Beach Diet The Adkins diet is famous for claims of weight loss, but the South Beach diet is said to be a more heart healthy choice for dieters. Most diets are hard to follow, and have so many restrictions on food that people often get fed up and revert to their old eating habits, instead of continuing with a new diet plan. A diet that restricts certain foods
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Introduction Stents were first developed in the late 1970s out of a need to keep coronary arteries open after balloon angioplasty (Cohen, 2006). Balloon angioplasty can weaken the arteries, sometimes causing them to collapse within a few days (Cohen, 2006). At that time, the only treatment available was emergency bypass graft surgery (Cohen, 2006). Further, angioplasty was causing restenosis in almost one-third of all patients (Cohen, 2006). Bare metal stents were developed in the mid 1980s
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