among the leading cause of injury related deaths in older adults. Falls also cause a substantial increase in cost due to an increased length of stay. Falls are detrimental to the health and well-being of the patients and are preventable. Falls prevention is imperative in providing the highest quality of care to our patients. As a result‚ decreasing the incidence of falls in patients in the hospital setting is a vital change that needs to be implemented. As health care providers‚ it is our foremost
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Running head: FIRE PREVENTION Fire Prevention in the Healthcare Setting John Diaz MA 101 Carrington College Fire Prevention in the Healthcare Setting Fire safety and fire prevention are very important. Prevention is defined as the act of prevention‚ to stop‚ hinder or to keep from happening. Accidents are bound to happen‚ it is impossible to predict when it is going to occur but we can always be more cautious to lower those odds. Unfortunately‚ as much as we would like to think that
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Diabetes Prevention Diabetes is a disease that afflicts millions of Americans each and every year. For many of them diabetes has been with them for their entire lives‚ they have never known what life is like without it‚ others however develop diabetes as they grow older. "Diabetes is a caused by lowered levels of insulin which helps regulate the uptake of glucose into most cells from the blood" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes‚ 2006). There are 3 main types of diabetes that occur in human
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HOW PARENTS CAN PROTECT THEIR KIDS FROM BECOMING ADDICTED SMOKERS The vast majority of parents do not want their kids to smoke‚ for obvious reasons. Smoking causes a wide range of serious health problems – including lung cancer‚ heart disease‚ and strokes – and frequently results in premature disability and death. To make matters worse‚ kids can start becoming seriously addicted to smoking very quickly‚ just weeks or even days after first “experimenting” with 1 cigarettes. What’s more‚ smoking
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2 of 1973‚ signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28.[2] It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government’s drug control activities. Congress accepted the proposal‚ as they were concerned with the growing availability of drugs.[3] As a result‚ the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD)‚ the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE); approximately 600 Special Agents of the Bureau of Customs‚ Customs
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Depression is a very serious disease that is often overlooked in a clinical setting. The patient population associated with depression ranges from children to the elderly. However‚ this specific report will address the clinical prevention techniques for nonpregnant adults over the age of 18. According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in their Task Force Final Recommendation 2016 edition‚ “ depression is one of the leading causes of disability in adults. It affects men and women of all
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How can AKI be prevented? According to the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death 2009‚ up to 30% of cases of acute kidney injury may be preventable and the best ’treatment of AKI is prevention.’ [3]This can mainly be done by identifying patients most at risk as early as possible. This would involve constant monitoring of urinary output and serum creatinine levels for the high risk patients. However in general‚ all hospitalized patients with acute illness should be monitored
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What More Can We Do To Stop Rape? There is a lot more all of us can do to help disengage our rape culture beyond not raping someone else. Since again‚ most men won’t rape‚ these “extras” are the things most of us need to work on. This article is not meant exclusively for men; women too should read it and help propagate it. For instance‚ people will often report that they know or have known that someone else — even people very close to them — are or have been raping or abusing another and
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Prevention Programs Papers: What type of drug prevention program is used to address the needs of the population? I am interviewing my local priest. I decided to interview him because I remember when I was in high school‚ I did volunteer work with him as a youth coordinator. The organization is called “YES”‚ they vary from many subjects and programs and prevention of drugs and alcohol is one of them. Father Miguel explained to me that the program educates not only the teens that are experimenting
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Childhood Obesity And It’s Prevention. Childhood Obesity is the excess weight gain of a child who intakes unhealthy food more than required‚ causing an unhealthy lifestyle and wellbeing. Childhood Obesity is one of the main issues of today’s growing society‚ which is rapidly growing since 1970 to 2012 from a number of 100 million to 500 million. It is expected that nearly half of the world’s population will be considered obese by 2030 (Abc.net‚ Obesity 2012). Childhood Obesity is becoming a very
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