What is first aid? First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert‚ but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care past the first aid intervention. It generally consists of a series of simple and in some cases‚ potentially life-saving techniques that an individual can be trained to perform with minimal
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BRAND: HISTORY: The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson‚ an employee of Johnson & Johnson‚ for his wife Josephine Dickson‚ who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. The prototype product allowed his wife to dress her wounds without assistance. Dickson‚ a Highland Park‚ New Jersey resident at the time‚ passed the idea on to his employer who then went on to produce and market the product as the Band-Aid. Dickson had a successful career at Johnson & Johnson‚ eventually
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Date: 10 January 2013 Executive Summary: Operating in an industry where intense competition exists‚ Foreign Aid Canada (FAC) has encountered some challenges and strategic choices that will be discussed and analyzed in this report. FAC is considering two strategic alternatives in order to introduce testing‚ treatment‚ and education of AIDS in Africa and Asia: 1. AIDS Clinics 2. Mobile AIDS Units This report will also assess another major alternative to outsource its HR function‚ travel‚ facilities
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Drug addiction and Drug abuse Ramona Collins AIU online Abstract Drug addiction and drug abuse a chronic and habitual use of any chemical substance to alter states of the body and your mind for other than medical warranted reasons. The definition of addiction is a physical dependency and withdrawal have
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Summary This paper summarizes the activity of the drug cartels that is responsible for terrorizing the citizens inside and outside Mexico. They are responsible for ruining young people’s lives by making them addicted to the drugs. These drug cartels are in Mexico and send drugs illegally throughout the world and their goal to make a lot of money by making more people to purchase their drugs. These organizations work like Mafia that no power could stop them from doing so. They have threatened people
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Drug Withdrawal Drug Withdrawal The documentation is on drug withdrawal and the effects on people going through the situation. When in middle school and high school people become addicted to marijuana which leads to pills and more. The further into drugs people start getting a taste of the game they play to get them. So‚ while people are using and partying all the time‚ they start selling and in time can start to get sick because of having so much going on in their system it can start rejecting
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Thematic Review Global Theme: Belief Systems Since the establishment of civilization as a result of the Neolithic Revolution‚ Belief Systems have been a means for established‚ orderly ways for groups or individuals to deal with issues of life‚ death‚ and the relationship of mankind to his fellow man. A Theme essay will ask you to be able to focus on the major beliefs of these systems‚ their key individuals and any basic codes of behavior connected with them. Hinduism. More than 3000 years
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CASE PROGRAM 2004-57.1 HIV/AIDS in the Barbados workplace – one company’s dilemma On 20 June 2004‚ George Hope‚ the General Manager of Caron Foods‚ a major manufacturing company in Barbados‚ faced the challenge of having to deal with the death of one of his employees - Maxine Cave - who had died of AIDS. Maxine was a production worker in the food plant and had been with the company for five years. She was a dedicated employee who had a positive work attitude. She rarely missed a day from work
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AIDS In Africa HIV-AIDS has infected over thirty million people in the world. Over 95% of all AIDS cases in the world are in Africa and in some of those countries over 40% of the people are infected (Frederickson and Kanabus HIV and AIDS in Africa 1). AIDS does not solely affect homosexuals‚ or any certain ethnicity of people‚ either; HIV-AIDS can affect any type of ethnicity including African Americans‚ Caucasians‚ Asians‚ Indians‚ and Hispanic people. AIDS cannot be reversed or cured‚ but with
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First aid for cuts Cuts and grazes are part of growing up. Small wounds are usually easily treated at home with a little first aid and lots of TLC. The aim of first aid is to promote healing and to minimise the risk of infection. Large or severely bleeding wounds need immediate medical attention as blood loss can lead to falling blood pressure and shock. Home treatment Minor wounds * Wash your hands before handling a wound or wear sterile disposable gloves. * Most minor wounds stop
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