Following the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct and ensuring confidentiality‚ dignity and respect is maintained throughout this essay‚ I will be changing the child’s name to Alfie (NMC‚ 2015). Alfie was a 3 year old who my mentor and I triaged and assessed in the early hours of the morning in A and E. He presented with a barking cough‚ temperature of 40°C and very irritable. These are all common signs and symptoms of croup. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2012) defines
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Taylor Roberts Granbery English 10 January 30‚ 2012 The Effects of Chewing Tobacco Every year in America‚ there are approximately 146‚023 people who chew tobacco that end up with cancer‚ according to mylastdip.com‚ a website committed to informing people of chewing tobacco. Those cancers include lip‚ mouth‚ throat‚ stomach‚ esophagus‚ pancreas‚ lung‚ trachea‚ and lastly‚ cancer of the bronchus. Chewing tobacco‚ also known as smokeless tobacco‚ is a term used to describe tobacco that is not
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Many citizens attempt to discover the reason for the obesity pandemic occurring across the world‚ however few understand the true cause. Media attempts to portray the simpler cause of inadequate energy balance‚ consuming the proper amount of calories to energy expenditure. Conversely‚ the quality of the calories consumed drastically alters the end result. For example‚ consuming excess sugar with limited fiber leads to the creation of fat. The directors of Fed Up raise awareness of the many other
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Negative Effects of Media on Children The media evidently has a noticeable impact on our lives and behaviours and especially the immature‚ impressionable and weak-minded people in our society. In a short span of time‚ most children can imitate a movie character‚ sing an advertising song‚ or show other impressions of what they learn from media. These examples may include posing indecently or expressing violent behaviour. Children only have to put a movie into a DVD player‚ open a magazine‚
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The world is constantly changing and evolving. Humans have played a large role in these changes. We have come far since the time of man creating the wheel. One of the areas that humans have improved on the some of the years is medical technology. The life expectancy for the average human being is now eighty years old compared to back in the day where someone would be lucky if they made it to their mid thirties. Medical advancements have done more than just help humans live longer. In today society
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confinement can be defined as torture because it often causes prisoners to lose their mental stability‚ or make their mental state worse. Social interaction is beyond important to humans. Humans are social creatures‚ and it can cause detrimental effects on us if we don’t socialize regularly. Forcing humans to go without this interaction can cause them great mental harm. There are a whole host of psychological consequences that are associated with long-term solitary confinement in Supermax prisons
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editorial staff to ensure the reliability of information. • Can be manipulated and rigged • By simply linking a large amount of web pages to a certain site to increase its popularity. (“Google Bombing”) • Social networking sites can have negative implications on relationships o Causes superficial (lack of intimacy) relationships • Under the illusion of intimacy • We are being kept in the loop with what our friends and family are up to‚ so we wouldn’t have to regularly call them up or go
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many different types of ways. Sometimes conformity can be used in a bad way like in behavior like changing to fit in. Then‚ it can be used in a good way like when a person can look up to someone to be there for them. Conformity can be used in many negative ways like a person changing who they really are just to fit in. When one is forced to be like by others part self respect is lost because never should a person to like something because they have to. “You lose something priceless and precious
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babies were born‚ though‚ scientists realized there was a hidden side effect. Thalidomide had caused the babies to be born with limb-defects. More than 10‚000 babies had this problem because side effects were not experienced when tested on the mice. (http://www.pcrm.org) This shows how inaccurate animal testing can be. This means that there have been many instances where experiments go perfectly on lab animals‚ but cause side effects on humans. It is fairly common‚ and because of this‚ lab experiments
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Bulimia Nervosa Alicia Lang-Goseland February 12‚ 2012 Abstract Little do bulimics know that what they are doing really is a big deal and is affecting them not just socially‚ but they are damaging their bodies physically and emotionally in ways they could not even imagine. For whatever reason they have decided to lean towards bulimia‚ they don’t understand that it is an unrealistic and very damaging habit to form. Vomiting their food up doesn’t mean they will lose weight‚ but they will definitely
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