Personal Reflection Paper BSHS/345 November 10, 2014 Personal Reflection Paper Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two very real concepts in life. However, when working in the human service field, both concepts must be controlled to avoid negative outcomes. This paper will describe two concepts and how each has played a part in my life. The first concept of discussion is invidious comparison. The second topic of discussion will focus on vicarious traumatization. Aside
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PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY FOR PARAMEDICS (EMS) ANTHONY L. PETERKIN DEVRY COLLEGE INTRODUCTION: “What ever can go wrong, will go wrong.” This application paper provides a summary of Professional Liability for a Paramedic and EMS personnel in general. We forget (omissions) to perform a needed task or skill and we make mistakes or professional errors for whatever reason when performing our duty in the name of doing no harm. The incident (the liable act) may be minor and reversible; on the other
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person, they can follow some and not the other but they are all important morals in the end. (Appiah 401) Humans will not always address situations of ethical dilemma with the same matter or approach. For example, external factors like hunger level, fatigue and stress will influence a person’s response to a certain or particular situation. Given a different day and time that same individual may react quite differently because of their feelings. Everybody can relate. I also notice many actions that I
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ASB 353 Chapter 5 1/5 of Americans are home when they die, over 30% die in nursing homes, and 50% die in hospitals. Three major categories of institutional medical care * Hospital are devoted mainly to acute intensive care of a limited duration. * Nursing homes provide long-term residential care for people who are chronically ill and those whose illness does not require acute, intensive care. * Hospice care is distinguished by its orientation toward the needs of dying patients and
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learn about his life in the isolated village. He told me that his mom was in line to be seen by the dentist, before saying that he loved sports. His energy was extremely contagious as I too felt as active as a 9-year-old boy, despite my lingering fatigue from the trip’s string of late nights and early mornings. At one point, I gave him a small bottle of bubbles, and watched the amazement on his face as I filled the air with small shiny orbs of soap. He has never played with bottled bubbles before
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Introduction It is approximated that 3 to 17 million Americans [have] fibromyalgia.(New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, 2004). Fibromyalgia is a debilitating disease that attacks people of every age, race, and gender. It is a disease that may develop out of nowhere, or be brought on by a stressful event. With it comes pain, both physically and psychologically. There is hope though as there are several ways to try and alleviate the pain, or reduce the symptoms. Medications are available, and of
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In fact, there were some suggestions of negative impacts of harsh policies, in that “[c]ounties that made fewer drug arrests, and concentrated their enforcement efforts on felony manufacture or sale rather than simple drug-possession offences were significantly more likely to experience declines in violent crime.... Counties that rarely imprisoned low-level drug offences showed the largest reduction in violent and property crime” (pp. 10–11). Minor drug arrests appear to have “no relationship to
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Anisha Lakhani HMGT 6320 March 20, 2017 Mental Health Policies around the United States Problems and Recommendations: Some solutions of the Mental Health Policies around the United States include: prevention for all, early identification for those suffering or at risk, and recovery as the end goal. As we direct towards the first aspect, Prevention for all, according to the “Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), approximately 9.3 million adults, or 4% of Americans
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A). There are three different models of health and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing
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The Physical Health of Older People with Learning Disabilities: The Nurse’s Role Student Professor Course Date Introduction In the UK, the term “learning disability” is used to depict people who have an impairment of intellectual ability that strongly affects their daily activities. For that reason, they need constant supervision, help and care from authorized nursing personnel, in order to lead a rather normal life. Other countries use terms such as “intellectual disability” or “mental
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