FALL PREVENTION ON ELDERLY PATIENTS IN A SURGICAL WARD There are various reasons why elderly patients in a surgical ward may fall‚ injuring them even more almost instantly‚ the issue of patient’s safety and security have been the primary concern of most hospital and clinical institution but elders do fall unpredictably. Elderly patients at the age of 65 falling is a serious problem‚ medical professionals has realized the needs to develop a plan to purposely prevent such incidents from happening
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Running head: VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP): The Key to Prevention Aleisha N. Curry Professional Role Development II Nursing 402 Christian Brothers University February 20‚ 2012 Sue Trzynka‚ Ph.D.‚ RN Introduction In the fast paced Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU) there are many things to remember while working with ventilated patients. Therefore‚ it is essential to implement practices that will decrease opportunities for
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Commentary Prediction and prevention of sudden cardiac arrest Heikki V. Huikuri MD See related research article by Reinier and colleagues on page 1705 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.101512 Competing interests: None declared. This article was solicited and has not been peer reviewed. Correspondence to: Dr. Heikki V. Huikuri‚ heikki.huikuri@oulu.fi CMAJ 2011. DOI:10.1503 /cmaj.111245 CMAJ ajor advances have been made in understanding the causes of and treatments for cardiovascular
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irreversible damage such as damaging women’s reproductive organs‚ and infertility. In men Chlamydia can cause discharge from the penis of an infected men. How is Chlamydia transmitted? Sexually active women and men can get Chlamydia through sexual contact with an infected person. Chlamydia can be transmitted during vaginal‚ anal‚ or oral sex. Chlamydia can also be passed from an infected mother to her baby during vaginal childbirth. Babies born to infected mothers can get pneumonia or infections
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seem to pay more and more attention to prevention issue than cure. That is why in recent years there has been a growing body of opinion in favor of putting more resources into health education and preventative measures. Nationwide publicity campaigns as well as longer term education are believed to be able to combat‚ for example‚ the ignorance of basic hygiene or the dangers of an unhealthy diet or lifestyle. Obviously‚ it is important to detect any medical condition as early as possible. There is
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Richard Rivas Criminology 06/06/07 Assignment 1 3). Situational crime prevention aims to remove whatever is attractive to criminals about committing that particular crime. An example of this is the method they use at the shoe stores in the mall. At footlocker they only show you one shoe‚ this makes stealing non-rewarding for thieves. It would not make sense to only steal one shoe even if it was in your size. This approach reduces crime in quick and practical ways‚ by removing the opportunities
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Chapter one Computer virus COMPUTER VIRUS A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly‚ but erroneously‚ used to refer to other types of malware‚ including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have a reproductive ability. Malware includes computer viruses‚ computer worms‚ ransomware‚ Trojan horses‚ keyloggers‚ most rootkits‚ spyware‚ dishonest
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Genocide: Motivation‚ Deception‚ Prevention The terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” were formulated only in the last seventy-five years. Raphael Lempkin conceived the word “genocide” (geno meaning “tribe” and cide meaning “murder”) in 1944 to describe the Nazi Holocaust‚ while “ethnic cleansing” originated in reference to the Yugoslavian conflicts of the 1990s. (Lempkin 11) The United Nations formally defines genocide – recognized as an international crime against humanity – as attempting to
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Birth Control Tamara Bernard March 5‚ 2013 Ms. Morcos Period #8 Abstract According to Women’s Health Channel‚ teenage mothers and the baby’s birth are at risk for developing health problems. Therefore teenage pregnancy prevention is an important matter. This research paper will be focusing on the advantage and disadvantage of the contraceptive‚ and how effective it can be‚ comparing abstinence and birth control and
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Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)‚ also known as Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)‚ are network security appliances that monitor network and/or system activities for malicious activity. The main functions of intrusion prevention systems are to identify malicious activity‚ log information about said activity‚ attempt to block/stop activity‚ and report activity. [1] Intrusion prevention systems are considered extensions of intrusion detection systems because they both monitor network
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