voluntary carbon offsets, al gore, an inconvenient truth, awareness campaign 2 1 Introduction Awareness campaigns that promote behavioral change exist across a wide spectrum of concerns, including health (e.g., National Breast Cancer Awareness Month events that encourage screening), political
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Pain Assessment and Management G u i d e l i n e f o r Marlene Walden, PhD RNC NNP CCNS Sharyn Gibbins, PhD RN NNP P r a c t i c e , 2 n d E d i t i o n Pain Assessment and Management Guideline for Practice, 2nd Edition This guideline is an outline of the pain assessment and management practices that currently are accepted and documented by experts in the field of neonatal care. In addition, it summarizes and recommends pain assessment and management practices based
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SPINE Volume 25, Number 22, pp 2940 –2953 ©2000, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. The Oswestry Disability Index Jeremy C. T. Fairbank, MD, FRCS,* and Paul B. Pynsent, PhD† tried. The questionnaire had been published in 198038 and widely disseminated from the 1981 meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) in Paris. The objects of this article are: To present the various versions of the ODI instrument for comparison ● To review the various efforts that have
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Wilson-Stronks, M.P.P., Project Director, Health Disparities, Division of Quality Measurement and Research, The Joint Commission. Paul Schyve, M.D., Senior Vice President, The Joint Commission Christina L. Cordero, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Project Director, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission Isa Rodriguez, Project Coordinator, Division of Quality Measurement and Research, The Joint Commission Mara Youdelman, J.D., L.L.M., Senior Attorney, National Health Law Program Project Advisors
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Class of 2014 First-Year Professional Development Timeline Ongoing Check email, the Career Center webpage and the Professional Development Resource Center (PDRC) for updates at least weekly. Review and regularly re-assess your personal professional network. Review legal & business media sources, including market-specific publications, both for subject matter content and possible points of connection. Attend and participate in the Career Center’s required first-year curriculum. Engage with
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NCSBN ON-LINE REVIEW 1.A client has been hospitalized after an automobile accident. A full leg cast was applied in the emergency room. reason for the nurse to elevate the casted leg is to A) Promote the client's comfort B) Reduce the drying time C) Decrease irritation to the skin D) Improve venous return The most important D: Improve venous return. Elevating the leg both improves venous return and reduces swelling. Client comfort will be improved as well. 2. The nurse is reviewing with
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Chapter 1: Ethical Theory Meta-ethical positions include: * Ethical non-cognitivism (concept that ethics is a matter of feelings) * Ethical relativism (concept that ethics is relative to a particular point of view) * Ethical objectivism (notion that ethics is objective in nature). Meta-Ethical Positions Ethical Non-cognitivism The basis of ethical non-cognitivism is that ethical disagreement can be a highly emotional affair where no amount of reasoning is likely to convince the other
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Estimation of optimal serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D for multiple health outcomes1–3 Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari, Edward Giovannucci, Walter C Willett, Thomas Dietrich, and Bess Dawson-Hughes Downloaded from ajcn.nutrition.org at UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO SCIENCE LIBRARY on September 23, 2012 ABSTRACT Recent evidence suggests that vitamin D intakes above current recommendations may be associated with better health outcomes. However, optimal serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D]
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Esperanza Bausela Herreras Arch Neurocien (Mex) Vol. 15, No. 1: 17-24; 2010 ©INNN, 2010 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Arch Neurocien (Mex) INNN, 2010 Artículo original Validación concurrente de la batería Luria-DNA frente a las escalas de inteligencia Wechsler (WAIS-III) Esperanza Bausela Herreras RESUMEN En el contexto de la evaluación
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...................................................................................... 1 1. Is there anything we have to do immediately? .................................................................. 1 2. Will I be required to offer health insurance coverage to my employees? .......................... 1 3. When will this requirement be effective? .......................................................................... 1 4. We have between 50 and 99 full-time employees
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