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    Life After Stroke

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    Life after stroke Stroke affects everybody differently‚ and it is difficult to say how much of a recovery is possible. Many stroke survivors experience the most dramatic recovery during their stay in hospital in the weeks after their stroke. But many stroke survivors continue to improve over a longer time‚ sometimes over a number of years. Their recovery is in fact a long period of rehabilitation‚ as they learn to deal with the effects the stroke has had on them. Rehabilitation is about getting

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    telling the story of six survivors of Hiroshima. In this book‚ John descripies into great detail of what these six people were doing the day of the bombing that ended World War 2 and how they survived the atomic bomb. Miss Toshinki Sasaki‚ Dr. Masakazu Fujii‚ Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge‚ Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto where the six survivors that Mr. Hersey writes about in his story. These six people were among many other survivors. In this book‚ John Hersey

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    Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

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    Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Stroke‚ if survived‚ is the largest cause of long-term disabilities in the United States. Nearly 160‚000 Americans have strokes every year‚ killing one of three individuals (reference?). Due to our nation’s ageing population‚ the stroke epidemic is expected to increase nearly 25% by year 2030 (Brewer‚ 2012). These stroke-related disabilities impact the survivor’s quality of life and independence in everyday activities. Nearly 50% to 75% of all stroke survivors have residual

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    Survivor Siblings

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    Savior Sibling: What would you do? One of the most important hopes of any parent is to raise a happy and healthy child‚ and watch that child grow up and become an adult. What if one of those children had a disease that would one day claim his or her life? What if there was an option that could save your child’s life? To what lengths will parents go to save the life of a terminally ill child? A savior sibling is a child selected as a result of genetic screening to have some innate characteristics

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    Mobility in Stroke Rehabilitation The purpose of this assignment is to identify the nursing role in the mobility rehabilitation of a patient who had a lacunar ischaemic stroke affecting the right corona radiata.The nursing care and the interdisciplinary management of the impairment will be critically evaluated as well as the patient progress during the stay in the hospital. The patient that will be discussed in this assignment was given the pseudonym of Martha. Martha is a 76 year old female who

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    No One Knows Me Like Me

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    No one knows me like me I. My childhood a. Early childhood b. Teenage years c. Adult life II. Important people in my life a. My mother b. My boss c. My friends III. Personal‚ Professional‚ Academic goals a. To have a family b. To have my own business c. To get through school with a good GPA IV. Things that make me happy in the future a. Having a sense of purpose in life b. Being debt-free c. Going on a road trip with my friends My childhood is something

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    Essay On Rape Survivors

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    What rape survivors go through is beyond imaginable and I would not wish it on my worst enemies.  Rape survivors suffer a lot more than just physical damage‚ they go through several different stages afterwards and to some people the physiological damage can be a lot worse than the physical damage.  Anyone that suffers this horrendous attack will experience physical‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and interpersonal behavior.  As described in the Round House‚ a book about a boy’s journey to seeking revenge

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    Hiroshima Survivor Notes

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    family and friends each month for one year? Survivor (record occupation and character descriptions) Objective details (facts) Subjective details (opinions) 1.Miss Toshiko Sasaki 2. 20 Years Old. 3. 4. Clerk in the personnel department in the East Asia Tin Works. 5. High school student 6. 7. 8. At work 9. 11 month old brother‚ Akio. 10. 11. 12. About to speak to the girl at the next desk. 13. 14. 1.Dr. Masakazu Fujii 2. Healthy 3. 50 years old. 4. 5. 6. 7.He enjoyed passing

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    Six Stroke Engine

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    Introduction We have heard about two and four stroke engines. Two stroke engines got its name from the fact that the required strokes are completed in one revolution. In short there is one power stroke in one revolution. In the case of four stroke engines the four strokes are completed in two revolutions‚ or there is a power stroke in two revolutions. Then how about a six stroke engine. The name of the engine has nothing to do with the number of revolutions or anything of that sort. This engine

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    My Stroke of Insight

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    Taylor’s Journey to Nirvana Silence. It’s something that very few people actually experience in their lifetime. Jill Bolte Taylor is one of the few lucky individuals who have experienced silence. In her talk “My Stroke of Insight‚” Taylor tells the audience of how she was able to experience silence in her mind. Jill Bolte Taylor spent many years of her life researching the brain‚ which is when she discovered the differences between the left and right brain. The left brain thinks methodically‚ making

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