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American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Proteus Vulgaris

2000, p. 6888). Transmission Proteus is commonly found in such venues as hospitals and long-term care facilities (Gonzalez, 2006)...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

How to Prevent Youth Recruitment by The Bloods

the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Impact Of Suicide On The Survivor

experiences she has had with others as a means by which to demonstrate the individual issues of denial, false hope and the common ...

A Program to Reduce Infidelity

Vaughan also argues that it is unlikely that with this level of occurrence the reasons behind infidelity are unlikely to be simply...

Evaluation of a Prevention Program

the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...

Decreasing Drop-Out Rate In Washington State

rate in the state of Washington was 30 percent (Puget Sound Educational Service District, 2006). Although how this figure was dete...

Organizations and Change Management

In eleven pages this paper examines organizational change management in terms of health prevention screenings and promotions in a ...

Abuse of the Elderlye

In twenty one pages this essay considers issues pertaining to the abuse of senior citzens and includes definitions along with abus...

Americans and Mental Retardation

In five pages this paper discusses mental retardation in terms of definition, etiology, and incidence as it affects the American p...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

healthcare provider to assess the potential risk of constipation and helping to get preventative measures (Campbell et al, 2001). ...

Case Study on Computer Crime

experts, criminal activity with computers can be broken down into three classes -- first being unauthorized use of a computer, whi...

New Businesses, the European Union, and the IPPC

by the relevant regulatory bodies in each country. The approach is different in each country due to the principle of subsidiary. T...

Denial of Service Attacks Overview

the case of DDoS attacks, the demons are programmed to do certain tasks in response to signals from intruders (Mikusch, 2003)....

Overview of Needlestick Injuries Among Health Care Workers

infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as well as the hepatitis B virus. Of health care workers infected with HCV, "85% become ch...

Battered Child and Battered Woman Syndrome Legal Overview

Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "batte...

African American Females and Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

Fire Safety Issues on College Campuses

not taken and as a result small fires turn into large ones quickly. A burner left on and stored under a curtain can ignite the mat...

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Levels

Example Aggregate Several of the individuals surveyed during a needs assessment for a heart disease prevention program indi...

England's 1666 'Great Fire'

that they ignited the home of Farriner, which was a wooden structure (The Great Fire of London, 2003). The fire...

Overview of Lead Poisoning

disabilities to death (2003). Although frightening, experts say that lead poising is preventable (2003). The way to accomplish thi...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

Violence Prevention in the Workplace

ex-employees who killed their boss doubled (pp. 43) Information from the National Safe Workplace Institute states that: "... viole...

Nursing Environmental Stress and Back Injuries

of a holistic approach to team management, and the integration of efforts to improve the overall function of nursing teams to redu...