In today’s nursing world‚ more is expected from a nurse than following doctor’s orders‚ administering medications and starting IVs. The nurse must be able to make critical decisions about a patient’s care‚ to question the doctor if orders seem inappropriate and educate a patient and a family. These skills take an education that is broad based‚ one that includes critical thinking and exposure to many different people‚ thought processes‚ and culture and societal norms. Nurses are prepared in two different
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Obesity Response In his article‚ Kentucky Town of Manchester Illustrates National Obesity Crisis‚ Wil Haygood talks about the obesity problem among the people of Manchester Kentucky. Haygood observes that Manchester is one of the unhealthiest places in Kentucky. However‚ the people of Manchester are far from eager to discuss or even acknowledge this problem. Haygood places much of the blame for the obesity problem on the local people being uneducated about the risks being obese can pose
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chose for my research paper is “Childhood Obesity.” I chose this topic for many reasons. One reason I chose this topic is because it has become an ignored problem because it is considered to be normal now because so many of our youth are over-weight. Many of the parents‚ teachers‚ and friends of children who are obese become enablers because they either feel bad for the child or think that it’s cute or harmless. Not many people realize that childhood obesity is a rising epidemic and that it leads to
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for treatments‚ cure‚ medical support and equipment‚ but also for health education and staving diseases off. I fully agree with this statement‚ as the possibility of disease development and infection could be decreased substantially. To begin‚ health services have played a very measurable role in every society from the early ages. Eventually‚ people always craved for the peak of health care development level‚ trying to produce best medicaments‚ to discover new methods of cure. In our days‚ the
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prevention is much less than cure. To prevent‚ we just spend a little money for vaccine or some other kinds of preventative drugs. Meanwhile‚ to cure‚ especially with some serious diseases such as cancer‚ we need a lot of money as well as time and sometime it is in vain. Secondly‚ prevention is very simple. Beside injecting vacine‚ we only need to ensure personal hygiene like washing your hands whenever you think it is “dirty” or taking a shower everyday. Small actions can make huge effects. Just
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY Abstract Twenty years ago there were just a hand full of children that were overweight‚ mostly because of a hormonal or genetic disorder (Johnson‚ 2005). Today a high rate‚ nearly 40 percent of children are overweight. There are so many questions to be answered and problems to be solved. Will schools actually start stepping up and helping parents with this problem? What about the affects on the children who have this problem? What should be done to help the children of the future
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Saving Poverty From Obesity Brent Royeton DeVry University Saving Poverty From Obesity Obesity is a problem that most people would assume is caused by laziness and poor lifestyle choices. Rarely would anyone think that poverty could be a contributing factor to obesity. A large question often asked is “How can our impoverished communities be so fat if they cannot afford to eat”? Other misconceptions come from the misunderstanding that people who are malnourished should appear skinny and lethargic
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Prevention is Better than Cure: This proverb is a message for the people who wait for the problem and disaster. The underlying idea of the saying is that it is much better to stop any harm from approaching us than to wait till it comes and ‘then to try to remove it. This waiting can be more injurious for us. It is beyond mauls power to be insulated against sudden dangers and difficulties. But much can be done for the prevention of the dangers and difficulties which can be anticipated. First and
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parents can improve children’s health. I constantly hear‚ how “convenient dining out is” or how “it is less expensive to eat off the dollar menu at McDonald’s than cooking at home”. Children’s health should be more important than convenience and expense. Parents should step up and prevent their children from becoming obese and from developing health issues. The amount of advertisement for fatty foods should be decrease and also physical activity should be required by all school-aged children.
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Obesity in the Workplace: Human Resource Goals Carol Cook HRA-330 June 18‚ 2012 Obesity in the Workplace: Human Resource Goals You can lose 12 inches in less than thirty days! A person can’t help but notice all the Nutri-System and Weight Watcher commercials on television‚ or the late night infomercials for that DVD that help a person look like a bodybuilder by exercising in the comfort of their own home. Obesity has become a hot topic in today’s society
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