Youth Gang Prevention EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Gang prevention‚ intervention and suppression for youth at risk and gang members are strategies for addressing the recent increases in youth and gang related problems in the city of Norfolk‚ Virginia. State and local policymakers as well as citizens are concerned about public safety and want to avoid a continued increase in gang activity and membership. An effective response to the problems of youth must be built on a thorough understanding of the problem
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Fall Prevention in the Long Term Care Setting Preventing falls among residents in the long term care healthcare setting requires an all-around approach‚ and the recognition‚ evaluation and prevention of resident falls are significant tasks for all who seek to provide a safe environment in any healthcare setting. It is acknowledged that most of the currently available data‚ research and guidelines on fall prevention are most evident in long-term care settings; however‚ much is applicable for all
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Teenage Pregnancy and a Way to Prevent It Teenage pregnancy it can ’t happen to me. This is the mindset that most teenagers have these days. Teenagers feel that they are invincible and that things‚ such as pregnancy‚ happens to others‚ but that they are immune to it. A lot of teenagers believe that you can ’t get pregnant the first time you have sex‚ if a girl is on her period‚ pregnancy cannot occur‚ among other myths. The reason teens believe this is that the education on sex isn ’t teaching
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Medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or harm to a patient (FDA‚ 2009). Being one of the most common medical errors‚ medication errors are not a subject to take without due consideration. In 2006‚ the National Academies stated “Studies indicate that 400‚000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals. Another 800‚000 occur in long-term care settings‚ and roughly 530‚000 occur just among Medicare recipients in outpatient
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Cyber bullying is a serious problem for this generation. With access to technology so easily obtainable someone somewhere is being cyber bullied right now. Many people find it easier to make fun of someone then to just be nice to them and now that you can type up a rude comment while sitting in the comfort of your living room its even easier for a bully to work up the courage to do something they probably wouldn’t in person. Cyber bullying can’t just be ended and won’t just end because mean people
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Running head: DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION Drug Abuse Prevention Programs: Effectiveness of DARE and Project ALERT Drug Abuse Prevention Programs: Effectiveness of DARE and Project ALERT Although drug use among secondary school students appears to have leveled off during the late 1990s‚ US adolescents continue to use alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and marijuana at unacceptably high rates. Among eighth graders‚ 52% have tried alcohol‚ 41% have tried cigarettes‚ and 20% have tried marijuana. By 12th grade these rates
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surveillance of the incidence of diabetes in the morbidity and mortality of Americans of African descent. This paper will also discuss the definition and purpose of epidemiology‚ epidemiological methods‚ the epidemiological triangle and levels of prevention as they relate to diabetes in the African American community. Definition and purpose of epidemiology The definition of epidemiology is very important if one is to use the definition to describe its purpose. “A common definition of epidemiology
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Three scenarios where I would apply each of the three levels of prevention According to Edelman‚ Mandle and Kudzma (2017)‚ the three levels of prevention are primary‚ secondary and tertiary. Through primary prevention level‚ it is possible to have health promotion and specific prevention such as immunization. Immunizing a healthy infant at the hospital is an example of a primary care scenario. The first step in this scenario would be checking on the immunization records to determine the required
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and their workers may lead to older adult neglect and an overall inferior quality of care. There are several reasons why falls are becoming more frequent for the elderly but they can be prevented by carefully managing the fall risks and creating a prevention program that should be implemented in order to reduce the number of falls in older adults. The population of older adults is rapidly increasing. One common work setting for a registered practical nurse is a long term care facility. Thus
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focus of this program is to support the staff in identifying the system issues which gives rise to the error and the near miss situation. A quality improvement initiative was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a fall prevention program using education and a fall prevention kit
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