What social factors have driven the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the immune system caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV is transmitted via unprotected sexual intercourse‚ contaminated blood transfusion‚ contaminated hypodermic needles‚ and from an infected mother to child during pregnancy‚ delivery or breastfeeding. There is currently no cure for HIV/AIDS. AIDS is a debilitating condition that has great social
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Descriptions * Community Health Nurse * Health and Social Care * NHSScotland * Nursing and Midwifery * Review of Nursing in the Community * Job Descriptions * Staff Nurse * Health Care Support Worker * Advance Practitioner * Community Health Nurse Community Health Nurse 1. JOB IDENTIFICATION | Job Title: Community Health Nurse (CHN)Responsible to (insert job title):
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Health Prevention September 15‚ 2013 Health Prevention Health promotion according to World Health Organization‚ “Is the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” In this assignment I have chosen three articles talking about the different health promotions. I will start with my article on teen suicide and primary prevention‚ then stroke
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Personal Health Records Main Concepts and Current Issues Personal health record (PHR) is a very useful tool for patient and not to be confused as medical records. Personal health Record is electronic file or record designed to help patients manage their health information and be more involved in their health care‚ while a medical record is patient health record manage by healthcare providers. Over the years‚ as technology is progressing and the amount of healthcare providers are increasing‚ we found
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will define the role of the nurse in healthcare and outline the different qualities required for this profession. Berridge and Liddle (2010) demonstrate that the definition of nursing according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is “the use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve‚ maintain‚ or recover health‚ to cope with health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life‚whatever their disease or disability‚ until death.” A nurse is an individual
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During a visit to India in March President Clinton watched a woman enter a village health centre‚ call up a web page on the computer‚ and get information on how to care for her baby.1 It is possible that this baby will have better health because of the availability of information on the internet. However‚ this possibility is underpinned by several assumptions‚ and the potential of information and communication technologies still has not been harnessed systematically to bring about important improvements
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Introduction 1 Defining Mentorship 3 Classical Mentorship 4 Modern Mentorship – Mentors as Assessors 8 Conclusion 10 Reference 11 The Role Of The Mentor Introduction Mentor‚ mentoring and mentorship are terms that have received increasing attention in health related circles over the last thirty years. In the ten years between 1978 and 1988 the number of references in the ‘ERIC’ database‚ which included ‘mentor’ as a keyword‚ increased
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understand the contributing causes of falls‚ to minimize their occurrence and resulting injuries or deaths. Today‚ organizations have begun reaching out to each other for collaboration on the best ways to prevent falls. Based on Centers for Disease and Prevention (2012) data‚ each year one in three older Americans (65 and older) falls and about 30% of those falls require medical treatment. Falls are not only the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries but also the most common cause of hospital admission
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482 Dr. Donna Cole December 4‚ 2013 HIV-Infected Parents and Their Children in the United States HIV has an insightful influence not only on the people it infects‚ but also on their families. Children who are dependent on their parents are particularly vulnerable. Because of the effects of HIV disease and the social conditions that are often associated with it‚ parents living with HIV may have limited financial‚ social‚ and emotional resources to draw upon
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Disparities in HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency Virus also known as HIV is a sexually transmitted disease. It attacks your body’s immune system. The virus destroys CD4 cells‚ which help your body fight diseases. HIV damages your immune system and it leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome also known as AIDS. AIDS is the final stage in HIV‚ and it’s a disease where severe loss of the body’s cellular immunity occurs. The disease lowers the resistance to infection and malignancy. Anyone can get HIV/AIDS
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