Drowning Of Children 0 – 5 Years Of Age: Preventable Or Inevitable? Injury is a significant cause of illness‚ hospitalisation‚ disability and death in Australian children and adolescents. This research based report by first year nursing student‚ Karla McCulloch‚ aims to promote awareness and educate nursing students and colleagues‚ as well as the general public and parents‚ on unintentional injury. In particular‚ it will focus on drowning in children from birth to 5 years of age. The report will
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healthcare setting. Nurses constantly deal with possible injury from lifting a patient‚ exposure to blood borne pathogens‚ and experiencing fatigue‚ along with emotional stress. One type of hazard that has been an issue in the healthcare setting involving nurses is the exposure of needles causing needle stick injuries. Needle stick injuries can be defined as an incident involving used or non-used needles that penetrate the skin. These types of injuries usually cause harm with the exposure to blood and other
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Street Children "People don’t love us‚" says Tigiste‚ a 12 years old street girl from Addis Ababa. A small example of how these kids suffer everyday‚ as Tigiste‚ there are many kids like her all over the world. One of these countries that has a huge problem in this issue is Egypt. But who is a street kid? how can we classify these children by that name? and what is the number of them? "A street child is defined as any boy or girl for whom the street in the widest sense of the word
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All head injuries are potentially serious because they can damage the brain and make someone lose responsiveness. The severity of a head injury depends on how someone hit their head and how hard the impact was. A head injury may cause damage to the brain tissue or to blood vessels inside the skull‚ or even break the skull (a skull fracture). Clear fluid or watery blood leaking from the ear or nose‚ and a deteriorating level of response‚ are some of the signs of serious injury. The severity of a
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In youth and high school football‚ many injuries are suffered every year. Some injuries are just painful spots on the body‚ such as contusions‚ breaks‚ and sprains. Other injuries may be catastrophic and sometimes even deadly. State laws in WV now require players to take concussion tests yearly before seasonal play begins‚ but the question some may ask is‚ is just one test a year enough? Personally‚ I am a strong supporter of children playing any sport that is offered. With that being said‚ young
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Introduction In an attempt to deal with the high level of personal injury litigation in the Irish courts and tackle the high cost of insurance the government introduced The Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act in 2003. 2 The act came into effect in June 2004 and established the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB). PIAB is primarily governed under the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003 (amended 2007) the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 and more recently The Civil Law (Miscellaneous
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Traumatic Brain Injury A description and criteria for Traumatic Brain Injury using DSM-IV-TR According to the Center for Disease Control‚ a traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an individual sustains a jolt to his head or a piercing head damage that interrupts the functions of human brain. The degree of TBI varies from mild to traumatic. Mild TBI occurs when a person loses consciousness for a short period. Traumatic TBI on the other hand occurs when an individual experiences long-term period
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Kaplan University CM220: College Composition September 5‚ 2012 Traumatic Brain Injury is an injury that affects an estimated 1.7 million people per year in the United States. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits a solid object‚ or an object pierces through the skull and enters the brain tissue. There are two main types of TBI a closed head injury (CHI)‚ or
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Physical factors are one the primary cause of injuries in sports and exercise for instance‚ a poor tackle in football‚ an awkward landing in gymnastics or poor warm-ups in sprinting. However‚ psychological researchers are continuing to show that thoughts‚ perceptions and aspects of personality may be linked to the incidence of injury. Stress and athletic injury Past research has seen the relationship between athletic injuries and psychological factors as essentially stress-related (1). In this
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A brain injury is of the most severe types of injuries that can occur as a result of an accident. There are many different symptoms that can occur as a result of a brain injury. The brain is still very much a mystery to even the most trained medical professionals. Different types of brain injuries can produce different symptoms and adult symptoms can vary from children’s symptoms. In order to get quick treatment to prevent further brain damage‚ though‚ a brain injury must be identified as soon as
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