Preventing Central Line Blood Stream Infections 4010 Scholarly Paper LeTanya V. Cintron Huron School of Nursing 09/29/2010 There are a variety of intravascular devices used for vascular access and they are becoming more common in today’s healthcare system‚ mainly due to their convenience. Whether it’s a short-term triple lumen central venous catheter or an arterial catheter for hemodynamic monitoring or long term venous access for inpatient or outpatient use for fluids‚ TPN‚ chemo
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transported to South Africa around the 19th century (pg 3). Britain was a leading factor of spreading diseases as imperial expansions across these colonies made it easier for people to get infected. Diseases like smallpox and cholera were very common and spread not just to streets‚ but also within city walls and towns. The different outbreaks of disease forced families to reallocate from home and many found themselves turning to the British government for help. Plague camps during the 19th century centered
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expanded rapidly to a point that by the fourth century ten percent of the population and even fifty percent of the population in Asia Minor were Christians. Christianity emphasized the personal relationship between God and people. The religion slowly spread throughout the empire‚ but once it was established it was very dominating in the western culture. The religion was never again discriminated and its followers were never again persecuted or killed. The Christian religion was very important to the
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An analysis of the main reasons for the continued spread of HIV HIV‚ a virus only discovered in the late 1970s‚ has now become the most lethal virus around the world (UNAIDS‚ 2008). Scientifically HIV is a kind of virus which can destroy human’s immune system. Then‚ without defense of the body‚ other virus can easily infect body and ultimately results in death (WHO‚ 2013). Till the end of 2012‚ 35.3 millions of people live with HIV (WHO‚ 2013) and large quantities of family members suffer from the
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Does the Internet help spread democracy? How invention of the Internet changed the world? How it contributes to the spread of democracy? Does it have any impact on it? These questions are under debate till nowadays. In this paper‚ I will try to express my viewpoint on this dispute. To begin with‚ let briefly look at the Egyptian revolution which was held in 2011. It was the first revolution where social media and Internet played the crucial role. ” After 30 years of living in a “fake democratic
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Topic: Prevent the spread of disease by washing your hands Purpose: To persuade my audience that proper hygiene and hand washing can reduce the risk of contracting infectious diseases. Introduction Hand washing is a simple habit‚ something most people do without thinking. Yet hand washing‚ when done properly‚ is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick. The purpose of my speech is to show how hand washing is an easy way to prevent infection. I will begin with the dangers of not
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ROLE OF ROMAN EMPERORS IN THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY The very cruelty and hate of Christianity that various Roman emperors exhibited actually worked in favor of that religion. As it is said‚ "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church‚" for in many ways‚ persecution was beneficial to the new religion. Persecution gave the Christians a chance to flex their spiritual muscles‚ which many did‚ to great effect. The miracles that took place during these martyrdoms
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There are many factors that can determine gender identity. There is continuous research comparing the affect of both biology and environment on gender identity. Gender identity is almost always chromosomal sex although that isn’t enough to rule out the affect of environment. Intersexuals are rare individuals who posses the typical external genitalia while possessing ambiguous sexual organs of the other sex. There are also hermaphrodites who possess both testicular and ovarian tissue. These two
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be shaped and developed‚ shared‚ and changed overtime. This is important because culture benefits our ways of life. culture can include food/shelter‚ religion‚ language‚ educations‚ etc‚. This is the reason why how does culture shape and develop‚ spread‚ and change over time. You might be asking yourself‚ how does culture develop? Culture can be develop in many ways. The most popular way is to believe in something or worship whoever they are. People take these beliefs and share them with their
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Witchcraft is referred to as magical rituals (contagious magic) which are intended to cause misfortune or inflict harm to others. (Robbins et al. 2015:115). Witchcraft was a trend which spread very quickly during the 16th century in Europe. Many anthropologists argued that human social dilemmas have led to the fear of witches. In the European time‚ witches were often alleged to devour supernatural power which allow them to turn into an animal or have magic “familiars”‚ which also the beliefs in the
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