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    Reflection can be defined as “a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse and evaluate and so inform learning from practice.”(Reid‚ 1993) It is an important factor when working within any health profession and midwifery is certainly no exception. Schon (1991) defines a reflective practitioner as “someone who learns by reflecting on current experience and applies that learning to future practice.” Reflection allows midwives to grow and develop professionally as well

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    Hospital Study

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    CASE: Community Hospital Evening Operating Room Solution 1) The average customer arrival rate and service rate per hour Patient arrival time in a day (11 pm to 7 am) = 8 hr/day Patient arrival time in a year (Total study time) = 8 (hr/day) * 365 = 2920 hrs For average customer arrival rate‚ we know that 62 patients are required during that time period. So average customer arrival rate (λ) = 62/2920 = 0.0212 patients /hr Service rate (μ) = 60/80.79 = 0.7426 /hr

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    Does Marriage and Love come Hand in Hand? When the question arises on love‚ mostly any human believes in love and would want to have a special feeling of finding a person of their life. Believes in holding hands‚ commitment to each other and make promises to each other‚ and live happily ever after. The universal feeling of love appears everywhere‚ in novels‚ religious‚ movies‚ songs and on television. Nowadays a great controversial topic of same sex marriage comes in our head as we all think of

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    Surgical Site Infection Prevention Lisa M. Ehret Walden University NURS 4001‚ Section 5‚ Research and Scholarship for Evidence-based Practice October 19‚ 2014 Surgical Site Infection Prevention Surgical site infections (SSI) are infections acquired after a patient undergoes an invasive surgical procedure. A surgical site infection is considered a hospital acquired infection‚ and in the United States is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality from hospital acquired infections (Korol‚

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    a major society issue. Hand sanitizer is the latest trend going around that is used to induce intoxication. Did you know 1 squirt of hand sanitizer is equivalent to drinking 10 shots of hard liquor? Hand sanitizer should be taken off the shelves. A Taste Hand sanitizer does not have the best taste and teenagers know that. This is a problem for consumption. Teenagers are looking at different brands to target the best tasting one for easy drinking. They are mixing hand sanitizer with different

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    children’s hospital. In July after Kalebś baseball game‚ I was on my way down to Centerville with my aunt and uncle. I wanted to spend time with my cousins and I could just go to Omaha with them. The day after I got to Centerville‚ my mom called my uncle and said that Kaleb was unresponsive and was in cardiac arrest‚ so the ambulance was taking him to the hospital. His temp was 104 and if he didn’t get to the hospital quick he was going to die. After several tests‚ they FINALLY

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    Cool Hand Luke How does Luke Jackson represent Christ? Could it be by his cellmate‚ Dragline who could represent Peter‚ Christ’s first follower? Could it be Boss Godfrey‚ the man with no eyes‚ who could represent the Devil? Or could it be the Captain who could represent Pontius Pilate? How would a fight scene with Dragline or eating 50 eggs or a picture in a magazine or even a pair of mirror sunglasses tie in with Christ? First off‚ before there was a fight of any kind‚ the prisoners were out

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    Second Hand Smoking versus First Hand Smoking ! Smoking is the most deadly drug in the world. It kills 120‚000 people each year in the United Kingdom‚ and almost 90% of patients with lung cancer are attributable to smoking. However‚ smokers around the world are not the only ones in danger. Not only smokers‚ people around them are also in risk. Second hand smoking is as harmful as direct smoking. It is proven by research that exposure to other people’s smoke can increase the risk of cancer

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    Decreasing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections Urinary Tract Infections are one of the most common hospital-acquired infection and many are associated with an indwelling catheter. For each day a catheter is in place the risk of developing a CAUTI increases 3%-7% (Kahnen‚ Flanders‚ & Magalong‚ 2011 ). Although indwelling urinary catheters are widely used in hospitalized patients and can provide an appropriate means of therapeutic management‚ they are often used without clear indications

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    Hand-in Assignment

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    Question 1 Activity Mean duration Std. dev. (days) A 11 0.9 B 13 1.1 C 7 0.2 D 9 0.8 E 6 1 F 7 1.2 G 10 0.7 H 9 0.6 I 8 0.8 Table 1 Complete the following: 1. Calculate the project completion time. 2. Indicate the critical path activities. 3. What is the probability of completing this project between 38 and 40 days? 4. What are the slack values for activities C and F? Interpret the meaning of their slack values? Qustion 2: A registered nurse is trying

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