to Nursing Research February 09‚ 2014 Monitoring Elevation of Head to Reduce Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia Being responsible for an intubated patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) can be an incredibly demanding job for the registered nurse. The fact that the patient is in need of an artificial airway via endotracheal tube into the lungs brings to the forefront the prospect of a ventilator associated infection‚ primarily pneumonia (VAP). VAP is also the leading cause of death from infections
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Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program for Child Abuse Prevention targeted at first time mothers is formed by absorbing elements from existed parent training programs and adding components of child abuse prevention specifically targeting to first time mothers and infants‚ This proposal seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Parent Training Program on maternal psychosocial health and child abuse prevention with a three years’ follow up. Randomized control trail will
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Childhood Obesity Prevention Obesity in children and adolescents has almost tripled over the past three decades in the United States (American Heart Association‚ 2015). Obesity in children is increasing at a faster rate than obesity in adults (Lakshman‚ Elks & Ong‚ 2012). Obesity in children and teens is described as having a body mass index (BMI) at the 95th percentile or above (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2015). This increase in childhood obesity places a major health challenge
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A Need for Greater Sports Injury Prevention Most know how important it is to be mentally healthy while participating in any competition. But in sports competition‚ it may just be more important to be physically healthy in order to compete at a productive‚ truly competitive level. As the competition in sports from pee-wee football leagues all the way through professional and international athletics increases‚ so too do the amount of injuries and magnitude of these injuries. Due to a more competitive
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instances where concussions have led to brain damage and in some cases‚ suicide‚ which shows that these continuous concussions need to stop. My biggest struggle with this essay was finding credible sources because the information that was presented ranged from significant to opinion based‚ wether it was a doctor writing about his studies‚ or a football fan writing on his blog. I felt that I did a good job providing certain examples backing up my argument‚ such as the anecdote about Junior Seau and the paragraph
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PREVENTION OF CRIMES: THE FOURTH ESTATE AS A BOULEVARD Gargi Whorra* Sudipto Mitra** Abstract The media is a chief spring of information on felony and wellbeing for a noteworthy fraction of the world’s populace. Technology has made it easier for criminals to commit crimes at the same time facilitates people to stand against crimes through
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nutrition‚ skin and foot problems‚ mental health issues‚ infectious diseases‚ mortality‚ and unintentionally injuries (Home). “Typically‚ families become homeless as a result of some unforeseen financial crisis - a medical emergency‚ a car accident‚ a death in the family - that prevents them from being able to hold on to housing.” (National Alliance to End Homelessness) Families have difficulties coming out of homelessness at a quick pase. Normally homeless families need “rent assistance‚ housing placement
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Introduction As a nation we need to acknowledge that the prevention of obesity‚ which affects approximately one in four children today beginning in childhood‚ offers the most effective means of achieving a healthy weight. Therefore‚ how do we prevent childhood obesity and what strategies can be implemented that will increase and promote awareness of increased physical activity amongst young children? A whole of society approach can play a major role in addressing and or preventing obesity. If young
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implemented what is considered to be successful Air Force Suicide Prevention Program in 1997 that helped to reduce suicide by over 30% (Knox‚ Pflanz‚ Talcott‚ Campise‚ Lavinge‚ Bajorska‚ & Tu‚ 2010). This program‚ customized for the Air Force‚ focused its efforts on improving the wellness of all service members instead of specifically targeting at-risk airmen. This approach was not entirely novel; by focusing efforts on prevention of conditions before they become problematic‚ the Air Force model
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drowsiness detection algorithm by means of sequential fitting and selection of regression models is presented. chapter 2 system model 2.1 General Block DIAGRAM: Discription The Systems consist of AVR controller which is ATmega16 from Atmel l company In this project we are going to developed for automatic detection of the eye blink The whole setup consists of Micro controller‚ IR sensor and LCD The IR sensor would be used for sensing the eye blink. Whenever the
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