How to dispose of the needles in WV? 1. You should place: • Needles • Syringes • Lancets‚ and • Other sharp objects ... in a hard-plastic or metal container tightly secured lid A coffee can will do if the plastic lid is reinforced and sealed with heavy duty tape. DO NOT USE GLASS OR CLEAR PLASTIC CONTAINER 2. Place the container where you will be using your syringes and sharps to minimize handling. 3. Place the sharps in the container immediately after use. DO NOT try to RECAP‚ REMOVE‚ BEND
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Ethical Principles Related To the Needle Exchange Program Jaimi Kilcrease Community Health Nursing‚ N141 Department of Nursing California State University‚ Fresno September 29‚ 2013 When I first heard about the Needle Exchange Program (NEP) several years ago‚ my thoughts were about how it was wrong to help people use drugs by providing a means for them to obtain clean needles. I struggled with morality and ethical principles that were at play in this program. Helping individuals
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Hypodermic Needle Theory History and Orientation The "hypodermic needle theory" implied mass media had a direct‚ immediate and powerful effect on its audiences. The mass media in the 1940s and 1950s were perceived as a powerful influence on behavior change. Several factors contributed to this "strong effects" theory of communication‚ including: - the fast rise and popularization of radio and television - the emergence of the persuasion industries‚ such as advertising and propaganda - the
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Clean Needle Programs In the article “A Case for Clean Needle Programs”‚ Breat Whitteker and Dawn Day argue that a clean needle program in the S.D. County could save hundreds of lives. One of the many benefits of establishing a clean needle program would be that it allows not only the S.D. County to save hundreds of millions of health care dollars but it allows other counties to do so as well. Some who obstruct against this program believe that when sterile needles are given out‚ there is
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The Needle Exchange Program The needle exchange program is very vital‚ and throughout this paper I will discuss the pros and cons about the program and I will discuss the reasons surrounding why the program was started. AIDS has been a growing epidemic through the 1990’s and it was estimated by the World Health Organization that the number of people infected with HIV or AIDS would reach thirty to forty million individuals by the year 2000 if nothing was done (Health and Disease). In Africa and
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Institution Name Student Name Roll No Topic: What are the main arguments for and against needle exchanges? The needle exchange program is a social service program which is aimed at allowing the drug syringe users to have free or cheap access to hypodermic needles. The idea underlying the program is to realize the concept of harm reduction i.e. to reduce the harm and to reduce the risk associated with the use of syringes. It is because the syringe users who use syringes for drug
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Mark Kendall: A needle-free vaccine patch that ’s safer and way cheaper Filmed June 2013 at TED Global 2013 Edinburgh‚ Scotland Transcript 0:11 It ’s a pleasure to be here in Edinburgh‚ Scotland‚ the birthplace of the needle and syringe. Less than a mile from here in this direction‚ in 1853 a Scotsman filed his very first patent on the needle and syringe. His name was Alexander Wood‚ and it was at the Royal College of Physicians. This is the patent. What blows my mind when I look at it
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Communication theory etc. refers to the ways mass media affect how audiences think and behave. "The hypodermic needle" as coined by Harold Lasswell is a model of mass communication also referred to as ’the magic bullet perspective ’. It is meant to give a mental image of the direct‚ strategic and planned infusion of a messages into individuals.Both images used to express this theory (a bullet and a needle) suggest a powerful and direct flow of information from the sender to the receiver. The bullet theory
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places to visit. The Space Needle and the Washington State Ferries are my favorite place to visit. First of all‚ the Space Needle is one of my favorite place that I want to take a visitor to Seattle‚ because it is a tower in Washington State and a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States‚ and a symbol of Seattle. Ride up in the elevator is very cool‚ as you are able to see everything through a big glass window. Beside this‚ inside the Space Needle is the Observation Deck
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Personal Space A personal space is a place where one can go to be alone‚ it is a place that one knows like the back of their hand‚ and it is a place where many memories are made‚ some are trivial‚ some are heartfelt. A personal space is defined as “The physical space immediately surrounding someone‚ into which any encroachment feels threatening to or uncomfortable for them.” (dictionary.com) My personal space is my car. It is a very intimate‚ meaningful space in which I have made many fond memories
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