in Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia September 19‚ 2013 Literature Review The review of literature was conducted using the following databases CINAHL‚ PubMed and Medline using the keywords oral care‚ mouth care‚ ventilator-associated pneumonia‚ ventilator‚ critical care and hygiene. Of the articles retrieved there were randomized‚ nonrandomized and quasi experimental. Location of the studies included single centers to university hospital settings in multiple critical care units
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"A Student Nurse ’s Bibliography on Pneumonia" Early Intervention for the Pneumonia Patient: An Emergency Department Triage Protocol Preventing Nosocomial Pneumonia I. Background/Rationale Pneumonia is a respiratory disease that causes an inflammation of the lung parenchyma commonly caused by microbial agents such as Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae. The disease is acquired through inhalation of the microorganism in respiratory droplets‚ as well as aspiration of secretions
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Well my paper is on pneumonia. The little I do know about pneumonia is that it is caused by an infection. You can recover from pneumonia with the right treatment. Pneumonia is more serious with people with weak immune systems. But to further my knowledge on pneumonia I did some research. What is pneumonia? Pneumonia is a common lung infection caused by bacteria‚ a virus or fungi. The infection inflames your lungs’ air sacs‚ which are called alveoli. The air sacs may fill up with fluid
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Dealing with childhood pneumonia in developing countries: how can we make a difference? The past few years have seen renewed attention focused on the persistent burden of childhood mortality globally. Of the 10.6 million deaths of children under 5 every year‚ the vast majority occur in a mere 42 countries of the developing world. It is also apparent that despite advances in understanding the pathophysiology and significance of the major causes of child death‚ most of the known killers such as diarrhoeal
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Propose how would you minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infection and monitor degree of success of these measures. INTRODUCTION The occurrence and undesirable complications from hospital acquired infections (HAIs) have been well recognized for the last several decades. The occurrence of HAIs continues to escalate at an alarming rate. HAIs originally referred to those infections associated with admission in an acute-care hospital (formerly called a nosocomial infection). These unanticipated
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 56 (2012) 175 – 182 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (ICTLHE 2012) in conjunction with RCEE & RHED 2012 A Conceptual Framework for Mathematical Ability Analysis through the Lens of Cultural Neuroscience Aisha Mahmooda‚ *‚ Mohd Fauzi Othmanb‚ Yudariah Mohammad Yusof c b Centre for Engineering Education‚ School of Graduate Studies‚ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia‚ UTM
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Conceptual skill Modern management has been trend globalization and improve constantly. A manager’s job is complex and a range of skills are used by different level management. Although some management theorists propose a long list of skills‚ the necessary skills for managing a department or an organization can be summarised in just three categories: conceptual ‚human and technical (Katz‚1974) .The application of three skills changes as managers move up in the organization. Although the degree
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The Conceptual Blender The findings shown from the theory of conceptual blending‚ also known as the blending theory‚ described in The Way We Think‚ by Giles Fauconnier and Mark Turner‚ allows students and researches an opportunity to better understand both the general and comprehensive organization of linguistic and conceptual occurrences. What is conceptual blending? Conceptual blending is a theory of cognition or the way we think. Conceptual blending‚ also called conceptual integration‚ can
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journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0969-6474.htm A conceptual framework of corporate and business ethics across organizations Structures‚ processes and performance ¨ Goran Svensson Oslo School of Management‚ Oslo‚ Norway‚ and Corporate and business ethics 21 Greg Wood Deakin University‚ Warrnambool‚ Australia Abstract Purpose – The objective of this paper is to introduce and describe a conceptual framework of corporate and business ethics across organizations in terms of
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The Conceptual Age Society has gone through stages‚ each one spurred by the want or need of improving life. At the beginning of time‚ society was based on hunting and gathering and then it advanced to the agricultural age. Then we moved into the industrial age‚ and recently‚ the information age. But now we are heading into a new stage‚ the Conceptual age. To adjust to and prosper in this age‚ people will need to develop skills in creating artistic and emotional beauty‚ in detecting patterns
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