Running Head: DRUG COURTS AND THE TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE Drug Courts and The Treatment of Substance Abusing Offenders Traci R. Howard Guilford Technical Community College Drug treatment courts also known as Drug Courts‚ provide treatment services to offenders in the criminal justice system. These particular courts use various models to provide treatment to drug offenders such as strategies to assist offenders with recovery from substance abuse. The process
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The nurse is performing her admission assessment of a patient. When grading arterial pulses‚ a 1+ pulse indicates: Above normal perfusion. Absent perfusion. Normal perfusion. Diminished perfusion. Murmurs that indicate heart disease are often accompanied by other symptoms such as: Dyspnea on exertion. Subcutaneous emphysema. Thoracic petechiae. Periorbital edema. Which pregnancy-related physiologic change would place the patient with a history of cardiac disease at the greatest risk of
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Peri-operative Nursing Phases of Peri-operative period 1. PRE- operative phase 2. INTRA- operative phase 3. POST- operative phase PRE-Operative Phase Begins when the decision to have surgery is made and ends when the client is transferred to the operating table INTRA-Operative Phase Begins when the client is transferred to the operating table and ends when the client is admitted to the post-anesthesia unit Post-operative Phase Begins with the admission of the client to the PACU
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Exam 1: Exam Review Chapter 1 The scope of the registered nurse is defined and delineated; for what purpose? The scope of adult health nursing is to promote health and prevent illness or injury in patients from 18 to older than 100 years of age. Why do nurses need to know what interventions are within his/her scope? Nurses who practice medical-surgical nursing must have a broad knowledge base to meet the needs of patients in the variety of health care settings across the continuum.
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Briefly describe the key principles of person centred care and demonstrate how you implemented person centred care in practice‚ Illustrate with examples. Use academic literature and the insight that it provides to inform your understanding of the key principles of person centred care. Person centred care can be viewed in many different aspects. The eight key principles of nursing practice found by the Royal College of Nursing (2011) include‚ dignity‚ responsibility‚ safety‚ choice‚ communication
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i) What causes PID and what happens to the body when someone gets it? Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) occurs when an infection of the cervix‚ or to a lesser extent the vagina progresses into the upper genital tract‚ PRODIGY (2005). Warell (2003) defines an infection as an invasion of the body by harmful organisms (or pathogens) such as bacteria‚ fungi‚ protozoa or viruses. In the case of PID the two most common causes of the initial infection are the bacterium Chlamydia Trachomatis or Neisseria
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Sport is so much a part of daily life for so many Australians. An Australian child is brought up to idolise their sporting heroes and to pursue the sport itself. It is devastating to think that maybe our sporting heroes are cheats. Today students are being pressured to perform at higher levels to make the first team‚ representative side or a sporting scholarship at a Greater Public Schools (GPS) which then could lead to the opportunity to make a break into the professional sporting teams. With the
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human urine and the third plot was not treated with any urine for it will be the basis of comparison. The urine was ensured that came from two persons within the same gender; male‚ age level; adolescence and health condition‚ and it also undergone urinalysis to guarantee that the following factors were considered. The following procedures were performed. The human urine‚ diluted at least 8:2 with water‚ is collected and stored for three weeks‚ meanwhile three plots are prepared. After the
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PPA-1-ABBREVIATIONS CHART Abbreviation Letters Represent Context Definition or Application within the Patient’s Chart Source Document From Jane’s Dare Medical Record found on bottom of Medical Record pages… 1. ICD International Classifications of Diseases‚ Ninth Revision Published by WHO This is a systematic classification of diagnosis codes. These codes are numeric and alphanumeric codes that represent medical diagnoses ADMISSION SUMMARY 2. CM Clinical Modification This abbreviation
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This essay is going describe the skills that student nurses need to demonstrate to show that they have a clear understanding of good nursing practice. This essay will focus on four inter-related skills that complement each other in achieving goals (Barker 2007). The goal that these nursing skills seek to achieve is good nursing practice as according to Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC 2008) mission of protecting the health and welfare of the public. NMC is the National Regulatory body that
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