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Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Pros and Cons of QII

of projects is critical to the success elements affecting the Six Sigma program (Antony 3). Prioritization is often based on subje...

A Good Customer Service Model

to use preventative measures to thwart competition and also to see that the firm stays on course. In order to create a viable an...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Hate Crimes Legislation

history, and how politics and media have affected it can help shed light on this relevant issue. The Hate Crimes Prevention Ac...

Importance of Isolation Precautions

most effective forms of primary prevention for the spread of contagious diseases (Gould, 2009). There are five principles regardin...

Public Health Organizations

Both Winslow and Acheson make the link between society and health, and the role of social actions; a concept that was seen in many...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

Intimate Relationships and Psychological Abuse

In ten pages this study examines intimate relationships and the incidence of psychological abuse and includes causes, abuser trait...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Exposure of Sanitation Workers to Disinfectants in a Hospital Environment

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...

Enhancing Outcomes by Revising a Protocol Based on Evidenced Based Practice

populations, and changes within the structure of the hospital or facility as a whole. Because falls impact patients health, nursi...

Emergency Response and Fire Prevention Plan

any conditions including total darkness or thick smoke. This requires that the signs have their own backup power systems that wil...

Loss Prevention Program for Golf Course Turf Management

the applicator or the general public, however, and some have the ability to damage the turfgrass plants they are meant to protect ...

Preventing Falls

Institute as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, which set the benchmarks for success (Jackson and Gleason 37). St. Clare...

Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...

Preventing Obesity

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

United Kingdom and Policies of Suicide Prevention

considered. Durkheim looked at suicide, which was defined as any action which lead subsequently to the death of the individual, ei...

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...