p37-41w29_ART&SCIENCE 18/03/2011 15:20 Page 37 art & science literature review & Improving evidence-based care for patients with pyrexia Scrase W‚ Tranter S (2011) Improving evidence-based care for patients with pyrexia. Nursing Standard. 25‚ 29‚ 37-41. Date of acceptance: December 29 2010. Summary Fever or pyrexia is a common clinical condition which nurses treat regularly. Fever and hyperpyrexia are defined in this article with a physiological explanation for this adaptive response
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Prim’s algorithm Prim’s algorithm is an algorithm used to find out the minimum spanning tree. The cost or value of all the paths should be positive. For a given source vertex‚ this algorithm calculates the minimum distance that should be taken to all the nodes from the source vertex. Algorithm of Prim’s algorithm: 1. Initialize two sets S and V-S‚ where the set S will have the start vertex and V-S will have all the remaining vertexes. 2. Starting from the source vertex‚ traverse the adjacent
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universally stated goal of current social work practice is the need for practitioners to use reflection in order to enhance‚ develop ‚improve and emancipate their own practice. In professional practice‚ the concept of reflective practice which entails a process of self-analysis‚ self-dialogue‚ self-evaluation and self-observation has long been a prominent concern. In recent years‚ there has been a growing literature concerned with reflective practice which is conceptualized as an approach that acknowledges
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How models of disability influence practice. Attitudes towards disability affect the way people think and behave towards disabled people and impact on outcomes for disabled people in the way they are treated and able to participate in society. Social model of disability The social model looks at the barriers erected by society in terms of disabled people being able to access goods and services. It seeks to remove unnecessary barriers which prevent disabled people participating in society‚ accessing
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knowledge and evidence in professional practice and then conduct a search in what role nurses can play in childhood obesity prevention. I will outline the search process using database and library searches for the evidence. To arrive at a conclusion regarding the reasons for the rise in childhood obesity and the evidence that can support the role nurses can play in preventing obesity in childhood. Using knowledge and evidence base practice to support my conclusion. Knowledge and evidence is an important
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REVIEW ARTICLE A New‚ Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care John T. James‚ PhD Objectives: Based on 1984 data developed from reviews of medical records of patients treated in New York hospitals‚ the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98‚000 Americans die each year from medical errors. The basis of this estimate is nearly 3 decades old; herein‚ an updated estimate is developed from modern studies published from 2008 to 2011. Methods: A literature
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SURVEY PAPER Top 10 algorithms in data mining Xindong Wu · Vipin Kumar · J. Ross Quinlan · Joydeep Ghosh · Qiang Yang · Hiroshi Motoda · Geoffrey J. McLachlan · Angus Ng · Bing Liu · Philip S. Yu · Zhi-Hua Zhou · Michael Steinbach · David J. Hand · Dan Steinberg Received: 9 July 2007 / Revised: 28 September 2007 / Accepted: 8 October 2007 Published online: 4 December 2007 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2007 Abstract This paper presents the top 10 data mining algorithms identified by the IEEE
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Social Work Department Faculty of Humanities University of Johannesburg Student Surname | Le Roux | Student Initials | C | Student First Name | Charlene | Student Number | 201170104 | Assignment Title | Practice Model | Date of Submission | 15 March 2013 | Course Title | B Social work | Lecturers Name | Prof. Adrian Van Breda | Course Code | SW2A11 | Plagiarism Declaration | I‚ Charlene Le Roux 201170104‚ declare that this assignment is my own original work. Where secondary material
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Early in the information technology revolution Richard Mason suggested that the coming changes in information technologies would necessitate rethinking the social contract (Mason 1986). What he could not have known then was how often we would have to update the social contract as these technologies rapidly change. Information technologies change quickly and move in and out of fashion at a bewildering pace. This makes it difficult to try to list them all and catalog the moral impacts of each. The
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of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2011). Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus 0Mellitus.aspx. [Last Accessed April 19‚ 2013]. Goh‚ J.E.L.‚ Sadler‚ L.‚ Rowan‚ J. (2011). Metformin for gestational diabetes in routine clinical practice. Diabetic Medicine‚ 28(9)‚ pp.1082-1087
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