Randy Pausch: Inspiration to Both Students and Teachers Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. In September‚ 2006 he learned that he had terminal pancreatic cancer and a year later he delivered a speech commonly referred to as a “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. A video of this speech was posted on the internet and was watched by millions of people. Randy states that while this lecture was given to students and faculty at
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Discharge Criteria in Day Surgery The continuing increase in day surgery procedures has led to a number of issues‚ as nurses are challenged to provide the best possible care within a short time frame as well as to minimize the length of hospital stay. Utilizing the evidence from the literature‚ I am focusing especially on factors that lead to a delay in discharge and the introduction of guidelines to overcome the issue. I presently work the day surgery unit of a new hospital and
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Author Randy Pausch stated‚ "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” in his bestseller book‚ The Last Lecture. The author explores the meaning of life’s difficulties‚ and how these difficulties shape our character and help us discover our own potential
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Discharge Facility Case Study HW is a governmental agency handling the waste water treatment of the state. The Administration & Main Sewage Treatment Plant is situated about 15-20 minutes from the airport and is within the Industrial Area. They are currently operating a waste water treatment plant with an average capacity of 55‚000 m3/day. The flow ranges from 53‚000 to 57‚000 m3/day on peak and off-peak time. There is a current demand to expand the plant’s hydraulic capacity to 100‚000 m3/day
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23‚ 1960 – July 25‚ 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18‚ 2007‚ before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation‚ “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals with quotes that have been circulating around the web since his stunning lecture that touched so many people. It gave them courage to live a better
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Children always have dreams that they want to achieve when they get older. However‚ when they get older they start to think that to achieve their dream is something impossible; therefore‚ they change their dream or give up on it. Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture to explain how he did not give up on his dream though. He wrote about his childhood dreams and even though he had cancer and knew he was going to die‚ he kept striving to achieve his childhood dreams. He managed to get through life achieving
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Respiratory Discharge Nurse Specialist (Nurse Led Discharge) A Concept Paper for the course Evolving Roles of the Nurse in Education‚ Practice and Research Raymund Christopher R. dela Peña Saint Louis University Background Patients who are well enough for discharge are sometimes spending hours or days longer than they needed to in hospital waiting for the next doctor’s ward round. At the same time‚ patients in the emergency department are waiting for a bed to become available so they
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Nadia Comaneci‚ the first gymnast who achieved perfection Nadia Comaneci‚ a Romanian gymnast‚ was born on November 12‚ 1961 in Onesti‚ a factory town in the mountains of Romania.She was the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. But this is only one of her many unique achievements. Nadia Comaneci was the first Romanian gymnast to win the all-around title at the Olympics. She also holds the record
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Improving Individual Health Practices and Patient Understanding through Comprehensive Discharge Education Improving Individual Health Practices and Patient Understanding through Comprehensive Discharge Education. As healthcare enters a new frontier with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ millions of previously uninsured Americans will flood the healthcare market. As members of this complex and vast healthcare system‚ individuals
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It was in the summer before my sophomore year when I read the book “The Last Lecture” by CMU professor Randy Pausch. The book was based on his famous “last lecture” that he gave while being terminally ill with few months to live. In that lecture‚ instead of talking about his tragedy‚ he spoke about the positivity of life‚ continuous learning‚ unconstrained imaginations‚ honesty and integrity‚ overcoming obstacles and choices that one can make to lead a good life. Two of his key experiences has stood
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