The debate about health care reform rages on with little discussion about the negative effects that all of us are likely to see. While the goals of health reform seem noble‚ an in-depth look will reveal the unintended consequences. Higher cost - Health reform focuses on forcing insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and a myriad of other mandates for the benefit of those that have been irresponsible. Maintaining health insurance coverage long term eliminates any problems with pre-existing
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B. Calculate the five-number summary and the mean and standard deviation of the data. C. Describe the distribution of the data‚ citing both the plots and the summary statistics found in questions 1 and 2. AP Statistics Exam Review Topic II: Normal Distribution [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] FREE RESPONSE A set of 2‚000 measurements had a symmetric‚ mound-shaped distribution. The mean is 5.3 and the standard deviation is 0.7. Determine an interval
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← Definition of health: “A state of complete physical‚ mental‚ and social well-being‚ and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”(WHO‚ 1948) ← Definition of illness: “A highly personal state in which person’s physical‚ emotional‚ intellectual‚ social‚ developmental‚ or spiritual functioning is thought to be diminished. ← Definition of wellness: “Wellness is a state of well-being .It defines by each person relative to his or her own values and beliefs *(Environmental‚ social‚ emotional
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Transcultural Nursing and Culturally Competent Care are in society. It will also clarify what these two terms are for those nurse and health professions that are not clear on what it is. Transcultural Nursing is a study‚ research‚ and practice‚ focused on culturally based care beliefs‚ values‚ and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures. Along with it being “directed toward holistic‚ congruent (appropriate)‚ and beneficial health care.” Transcultural Nursing has changed
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Oxygen Delivery Devices Fact: Oxygen is a medication ordered by the physician Humans naturally breath 21% oxygen from the room air Normal oxygen saturation is 95-99% Clinically‚ if not receiving oxygen therapy‚ a patient on room air should have pulse ox reading of at least 92% or above Definitions: Pulse oximeter – a non-invasive way to monitor the percentage of oxygen carried in blood. Hypoxia – Impaired level of oxygen in the body Hypoxic - Lack of oxygen in the tissues‚ tissue starved
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Normal What is normal? In my opinion‚ there is no definite answer to this question. Normal is a word that is relative to time and space. Normal is‚ and always will be‚ in a constant state of change‚ today’s normal is not the same as twenty years ago‚ and it will be different ten years from now. However when you consider the way this word came about‚ you may be surprised. Normal comes from the Latin word normalis‚ which refers to a carpenter’s right angle. When you think of a right angle‚ it is
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Equipped for Efficiency: Improving Nursing Care Through Technology CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION December 2008 Equipped for Efficiency: Improving Nursing Care Through Technology Prepared for California HealtHCare foundation by Fran Turisco‚ M.B.A.‚ research principal Jared Rhoads‚ M.S.‚ senior research analyst CSC December 2008 About the Authors Fran Turisco is research principal and Jared Rhoads is a senior research analyst at CSC’s Emerging Practices‚ the applied research arm
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S1 Jan 2001 1) The students in a class were each asked to write down how many CDs they owned. The student with the least number of CDs had 14 and all but one of the others owned 60 or fewer. The remaining student owned 65. The quartiles for the class were 30‚ 34 and 42 respectively. Outliers are defined to be any values outside the limits of 1.5(Q3 – Q1) below the lower quartile or above the upper quartile. On graph paper draw a box plot to represent these data‚ indicating clearly any outliers
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Introduction This paper presents the care to a patient during one shift in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Tony*‚ a 79 year old‚was admitted to ICU with suspected anoxic brain injury;post Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest; and Head Injury. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation was initiated by his son. When the EMTambulance arrived Tony was pulseless‚ cardiac monitoring showed Ventricular fibrillation – he was cardioverted twice at the scene. Inthe Emergency Department (ED) he developed Ventricular tachycardia
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The last 50 years has seen a major shift in how care is delivered to service users particularly those who suffer with Mental Illness. It was as recent as the 1960’s the concept of community care as opposed to institutionalisation was first considered and asylums began closing. Strains on resources and works such as those documented by Goffman and referred to by Miller 1996highlighted how institutions didn’t aid services users back to health but made them dependent on the system and incapable of making
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