A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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Disaster Planning Disaster Planning prevention‚ preparedness‚ response‚ recovery PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DISASTERS .................................................................................................. 2 – NATURAL DISASTERS........................................................................................................................... 2 – MAN-MADE DISASTERS ...................................................................................................................
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Reportage- Natural Disasters: How do they affect the human beings? It is the 31 December of 2004. We are heading for a new year with new expectations‚opportunities and goals. However we have experienced a Tsunami that just very recently struck Thailand. This has left some traces and marks. How has this natural disaster really affected the human beings? I am about to find out. As I walk the beach of Khao Lake I see destruction so far from the paradise pictures I am used of seeing. It is forenoon
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Critically examine the factors which impeded the development of a Haitian state after 1804 The American Revolution of 1776 proclaimed that all men have “inalienable rights‚” but the revolutionaries did not draw what seems to us the logical conclusion from this statement: that slavery and racial discrimination cannot be justified. It took the Civil War of 1861-65 to bring about emancipation. Just when the American constitution was going into effect in 1789‚ a revolution broke out in France.
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NURSING INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE NORMAL ELIMINATION Aujero‚ Cacar Bilon‚ Kristine Domingo‚ Essie Ibrahim‚ Omaeir Panopio‚ Eunice Salcedo‚ Demsky Urination Micturition‚ voiding‚ and urination all refer to the process of emptying the urinary bladder. Defecation Elimination of the waste products of digestion from the body. - Expulsion of feces from the anus and rectum. - The excreted waste products are referred to as feces or stool. Maintaining Normal Urinary Elimination Promoting
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Every population in the world experienced disasters at a certain time with little and sometimes no warning. Adequate preparation and training are necessary to ensure optimal outcomes‚ whether the disaster is natural or a human made. Preparation for disasters must include conducting a comprehensive assessment of systems‚ risks‚ and resources available. Essential human services can be interrupted for significant amounts of time despite the type of disaster. That can produce exceptional needs and placing
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traditions leave both mother and babies in great danger. Upon assessment‚ those of the Haitian culture are often diagnosed as high risk cases when they seek prenatal care. The concept of “high risk” or “low risk” are based on observations‚ interviews‚ and interactions with people of a particular culture or group and statistics are used to compare them with other groups or cultures before drawing a conclusion. Analysis of Haitian women point out why they are considered as high risk during childbearing ages
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Cyclone and Other Natural Disasters Scheme 2011-2012 Role of Ministry of Environment & SD The scheme is in four parts A. Cyclone Emergency Scheme After a cyclone A.2.11: MoESD to form part of the Local Cyclone Committees which will be set in each Municipal and District Council. A.5.1: Immediately after a cyclone‚ MoESD to attend the standing Cabinet Cyclone Committee at the PMO. A.5.2: MoESD to form part of the Committee of Officials which is concerned mainly with work of relief and reconstruction
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“Disaster‚ Disaster” Oh Disaster‚ Disaster how cruel you are Oh Disaster‚ Disaster how rude you are You shake the ground beneath my feet You attack me‚ and you wake me up from my sleep I have so little time to get away from you I never though you would become my foe Oh Disaster‚ Disaster what have I done Oh Disaster‚ Disaster why did you have to come? Because of you I have nothing left Except for bricks and rocks and the smell of dust You made me cry‚ you make me scream You make me panic and entangled
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3. Referring the patient to a cardiology for further evaluation. Advanced Practice Nursing Intervention Plan for Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage‚ Unspecified The patient has a heme positive test‚ which means that there is blood contaminate in his stool sample. This result indicates that he may be suffering from gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage or gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. According to NIDDK (2016)‚ gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is any type of bleeding in digestive tract. There are two type of
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