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    CURRENT TREND AND ISSUES OF NURSING | Current Trend in Nursing Research What is research? Focused on uncovering new knowledge to help understand phenomena‚ answer questions‚ or address problems‚ Goal directed‚ A systematic process of inquiry. Research means “to search again or carefully examine” (Langford 2001). “A systematic study of problems in patient care.”  Abdellah: “A systematic detailed attempt to discover or confirm facts that relate to a specific problem to improve the practice and profession

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    Data warehousing and current trends Submitted to: Mr. S. Ramanathan TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Executive Summary 2. Data warehousing basics‚ difference from database and its business implication 3. Data mining‚ businesses using it and how 4. ETL technology‚ businesses using it and how 5. Tools used 6. Data mart and difference in business implication 7. References EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study takes an insight into the usage of data warehousing and data mining

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    Suicide Related to Substance Abuse TEEN SUICIDE RELATED TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE The greatest health threats for today’s teens are behavioral rather than medical. Many‚ though not all‚ teens engage in behaviors that might be considered threatening to their health and well-being; furthermore‚ adolescents partake in risky and dangerous behaviors including drug and alcohol use and abuse at increasingly younger ages (Adger & DeAngelia‚ 2004). Linked to teen substance abuse is the most deviant

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    What trends are currently impacting policing? The biggest issues affecting policing trends are new technology. The rapid growth of technological advancements will continue to boost social weakness and fear‚ giving terrorist and criminal’s new methods and opportunities‚ and police new tools to stop them. In almost every area‚ technology is wiping away traditional working methods faster than people can adapt to the new possibilities becoming available to them. Since the 9/11 attack on the US people

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    Substance Abuse in the African American Community Stating the Problem      The contemporary problem that I would like to address is Substance abuse in African Americans community. Most Africain American uses Substance abuse as a stress reliever . They use religion by going to church to get strength asking for forgiviness. Adolescent are the one’s who are at risk the most . In the Hampton Roads you will see a lot of homeless people substance abuse users. Interview from a experience individual

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    Rodriguez‚ Paul Angelo R. Orata‚ Ma. Leah Uy‚ Richie Maximillan Pangilinan‚ Erika IT1041 The article that we are going to give a reaction paper about is entitled “Current and Future Trends in ICT” by Gordon Segal. Basically the topic talks about the progress and changes in the field of IT and ICT. It gives information on what has become and what are the things that must improve more. Not to mention the facts it gives that others need to focus also for it may be a great contribution upon the

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    breaks down the negative consequences associated with the abuse of alcohol and drugs in society. “Substance abuse‚ the nation’s number one preventable health problem‚ places an enormous burden on American society…” (Linda A. Mooney 64)‚ a statement from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation directly shines a light on the abuse of alcohol and drugs. This paper will briefly summarize the chapter. “The term drug refers to any chemical substance that (1) has a direct effect on users’ physical‚ psychological

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    because my grandmother‚ her‚ and my aunt‚ had to flee Haiti during coup. My mother had me at a very young age‚ she was 17 years old and shouldn’t have had a child in my opinion. One of my first childhood memories was insignificant . I went through abuse a majority of the time I was with my birth family. I remember one time my mother came home drunk.I was about three years old ‚and I went to go give her a hug‚ she grasped me by my hair and yanked me to the basement door‚ then she opened it and chucked

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    Murder‚ theft‚ sexual assault. These are just a few crimes that people that have substance abuse users have committed.. Substance abuse increases the risk of criminal activity which can lead to increased economic and medical costs. Over 1.5 million arrests are due to drug law violations resulting in drug law violations to be one of the major crimes committed in the U.S. (Hart & Ksir‚ 2015‚ p. 40) According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (2015)‚ drugs and alcohol are implicated

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    Vulnerable Populations Paper: Substance Abuse Substance abuse disorders is easily defined when an “individual continues to use the substance despite experiencing negative consequences from their use. These negative consequences can include health problems; difficulties in their family‚ work‚ and social life; and financial and legal problems. They are said to be dependent on the substance when‚” in addition to theses negative consequences‚ they build tolerance and experience withdrawal if

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