As a community health nurse the most important elements to stress to the community is to ensure steps have been implemented to secure your family‚ property and business. Developing a Family Disaster Plan is an often overlooked but crucial part of disaster preparedness. Living in Florida we prepare annually for hurricane season from June through November and prepare a hurricane preparation list as follows: Assemble Important Documents In a waterproof container‚ put important documents like:
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Rape and Sexual Assault Community Rape and sexual assault can be traumatizing‚ as well as mentally and physically debilitating to those who have been subjected to these horrific crimes. So many victims go unheard or simply unreported due to fear and neglect. Proper justice is often not served because programs provide insufficient services or lack proper knowledge on successfully guiding and counseling victims. The number of victims continues to climb‚ as statistics claim that every two minutes
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The Benefits‚ Risks‚ Gifts‚ Sacrifices and Curious Events That Lead to Living Renal Donation Kidney organ donation is a hot topic these days due to the fact that so many End-Stage Renal Failure Patients are dying while waiting for a living or deceased transplant. The big questions‚ should healthy adults become living kidney donors to complete strangers? Should a healthy adult family member become a living kidney donor to a friend or family member? If a loved one is an organ donor upon their
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the context of the ecological model and social determinants of health (SDOH). With the ecological model‚ we look at the environment of the individual and how the two interact together. The environment consists of peers‚ family‚ community‚ infrastructure within the community‚ etc. All these things impact the individual’s perception of their health and they outcomes they will accept for their health. Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are a list of 10 items that are basically psychosocial influences
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Earth: A Living Planet To care for our planet we must understand how it opperates. Ecology is the study of interactions of organisms with one another and with their physical surroundings. Scientists who study ecology are called ecologists. Earts is a biosphere‚ or a living globe. The biosphere is that part of the Earth in which life exists. Biospheres include all the areas of land‚ air‚ and water on the planet. The biosphere goes about eight kilometers above the Earth’s surface to as far as eight
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Abstract While community policing is being touted by some as the panacea for all problems in the criminal justice system‚ others believe that it is just "old wine in a new bottle." Many departments around the country have embraced the tenets of community policing‚ yet few can answer the bottom-line question: Is it a better way to police? This paper will provide a comprehensive history and evolution of Community Policing; give a history of community policing and lessons learned
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Living “Off the Grid” could be a different experience for someone to do in life. Thinking about someone living off the grid raises many questions. How lonely is it‚ are people constantly busy‚ or do they sometimes struggle to find certain necessities? When first thinking about living off the grid‚ it has deemed as something crazy. Defined living off the grid is a state of degree of self-sufficiency with little to no reliance on public utilities‚ especially the three traditional basics: energy (power)
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The concept of viruses being living or non-living has been greatly debated throughout the scientific community‚ essentially because of varying differences in scientist’s definitions of what constitutes life. Furthermore‚ scientists also disagree on the degree to which viruses fit into the living or non-living category. There are seven fundamental components which can be used to define life. The first being that living things must maintain homeostasis; the ability for it to control its internal temperature
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an investigation‚ a case study‚ of a nationally recognized successful‚ community action agency. The intent of this investigation is to understand the role of a leader in the nonprofit organizational setting‚ and the dynamic interrelationship of leader’s influence upon the elements of organizational leadership‚ culture and socialization. The primary incentive is to add to the knowledge of how an effective nonprofit community action agency functions. The study is grounded in extant research in the
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very seldom is that the case. Dorm life so far has not been what was expected to say the least. Between having to deal with the difference in personalities‚ communal facilities and spaces‚ and being considered partially independent‚ this new found living has been nothing short of a major adjustment. Coming into college the thought process begins to switch from adolescent and immature to adult-like and responsible‚ at least that’s what should happen. Students walk onto university grounds and get
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