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A Study Of Lyme Disease In New Jersey
1,275 words... flu-like symptoms (1: 47). If left untreated, the disease spreads to other parts of the body, and often results in more joint, tendon and muscle pain, partial facial paralysis, and heart palpitations (8: 11). Chronic symptoms can develop if the disease goes untreated for months or years, and leads to severe arthritis and neurological problems (5: 29). The best way to arrive at or exclude a diagnosis of Lyme disease is to examine three aspects of the patient. The first is to determine if the ...
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Type 2 Diabetes Balanced Budget
713 wordsAltimier, L. B. , Sanders, J. M. , (2000, April). Can you make a merger pay off? Nursing Management, 31 (4) 8. This article discusses the merger of three hospitals and prenatal departments with the results of this complex transition. This huge project comprised of five nurse led areas proved to be cost-effective. By maintaining a single administrative structure, they eliminated bureaucracy and cut costs with staffing changes. No doubt time will test the success of this story. There are many give...
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University Of Phoenix Roles And Responsibilities
430 wordsThe student roles and responsibilities of the Masters of Counseling in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy (MCMFCT) at the University of Phoenix are to advance competent and ethical practitioners in family, couple and individual therapy in a variety of settings. By following the program's defined curriculum for professional role development, the successful graduate will be able to provide counseling services "in accordance with the highest ethical and professional standards" (Master of Counseling...
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Social The Role Of Worker
833 wordsSocial Justice and the Role of Social Work Social and economic justice occurs when "all members of a society share equally in the social order, secure an equitable consideration of resources and opportunities, and enjoy their full benefit of civil liberties" (DuBois & Krogsrud Miley, 1996; p. 15). An easier way to understand the concept of social and economic justice may be to consider what is a lack of justice: "when societies do not accord citizens equity and equality and when they violate the...
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Kill Cancer Cells Breast Cancer
856 wordsIn the United States women each year develop breast cancer. Although these statistics are alarming, there are a number of treatment options available for those that are diagnosed with breast cancer. The best way to treat any disease is to prevent it. Since little is known about breast cancer, there are no established rules for prevention. women age twenty and older perform monthly breast self-exams, and it also suggests clinical examinations every three years. Mammography is also a wonderful too...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
1,460 words... if you do decide to treat the child with antidepressants, which is by far the easiest mode of treatment, the child could still be at risk for self-harm due to the risk associated with antidepressant drugs and children. As a parent, this scenario is like tossing a one-sided coin, in that with or without treatment your child may be at risk of suicidal tendencies. Another concern is the dosage of antidepressants being given to children and adolescents. Currently, the lowest dosage for an antide...
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Hiv Infected Women Health Care Providers
689 wordsHence, without this diagnosis, many women are unable to receive health benefits and services available to those with an "official" AIDS diagnosis (12). Further data that show that women with AIDS do not survive as long after diagnosis as men and, once diagnosed, become sick faster and die sooner than men with AIDS (12). Some studies suggest this be attributed to gender differences or to delay diagnosis of women, inferior access to health care and poor utilization of service (12). Utilization of ...
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Sexually Transmitted Disease Human Immunodeficiency Virus
738 wordsInfection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had emerged as a major health problem for women in the United States. Family physicians can play an important role in the detection and care of HIV-infected women. The epidemiology and natural history of HIV infection in women were reviewed. HIV infection is now a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young women in the United States, particularly women of racial and ethnic minorities. Most cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome...
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Cutting Edge Medical School
673 wordsDisorders of the brain, spine and nerves commonly treated by neurosurgeons include: Carotid Artery Disease, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cervical Spine Disorders, Chronic Pain, Craniosynostosis, Epilepsy, Head Injury, Herniated Disk, Hydrocephalus, Intracranial Aneurysm, Lumbar Spinal, Stenosis, Meningomyelocele, Parkinson's Disease, Spina Bifida, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke (Brain Attack), Trigeminal Neuralgia, Tumors. After four years of medical school and an internship program, the doctor enters a ...
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Department Of Health Decision Making
768 wordsInterdisciplinary Care in the Community Teamwork within the context of the clinical and healthcare services is fast becoming a trend in the field of applied health science. This particular approach involves the partnership of specialists and trained individuals coming from varied and or multiple professions who either assume traditional or non-traditional roles in the healthcare set-up. Several health care models apply the principle behind this joint action and collaboration theory. Models of he...
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Central Nervous System Motor Control
1,145 wordsSport Skill Sports skill learning has always been concerned with the acquisition of new skills with practice. This emphasis has been blended somewhat with the field of motor control, so that the ideas about the how skills are learned and particularly how they are performed differently after practice were an important emphasis. The concern has been to understand the principles by which these new skills were acquired and to develop theories that would account for them. For example, Swimming is a c...
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Bubonic Plague Infectious Diseases
1,096 wordsThe Bubonic Plague Devastating epidemics and infectious diseases took place in all periods of the mankind's history. The number of the victims at times considerably exceeded losses during military actions. Plague was one of the terrible general illnesses of the classical Middle Ages period. 3 enormous plagues are known in the history. The first is Justinian's plague (sixth century A. D. ), which, having left Egypt, has devastated almost all the countries of the Mediterranean and it was kept abou...
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Principles Of Utilitarian And Logic
699 wordsPrinciples of Utilitarian and De ontological Logic The U. S government and private health care providers are currently trying to create a more systematic approach for States and local communities to extend health and mental health care to their uninsured residents, which correlates directly with the principles of utilitarian and de ontological logic. In the United States cultural and social factors contribute to the causation of mental illness, yet that contribution varies by disorder. Mental il...
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Residency Program For Nyu College Of Dentistry
598 wordsRESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR NYU COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY The rate of change experienced by the dental health care industry is unprecedented. There has been, in fact, a complete evolution of the American health care delivery system. Driven by economic and social change, both the structure and power base of the health care system have changed. Our general practice residency provides a broad range of experience dealing with the dental patient in both a clinical and didactic sense. For me, a good career optio...
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Knowledge And Skills Career Goals
1,245 wordsAdmission Essay to the Nursing School I have chosen a nursing career consider that it is one of the most humane professions. I was researching a career change and have always been stimulated by health sciences. Health care fields are static, in that they will always be needed, and dynamic due to the constant evolutions in providing patient care. Every new patient is a separate case which is needed to be specially treated. As I researched more I found the need both immediate and future to be quit...
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Prentice Hall Computer Based
1,591 words... opportunity for a District Nurse in the Pennines to join a seminar or virtual lecture with an intensive care nurse in Leeds and a School Nurse in London (Donahue, 75). computer based education and role-play. computer based education has an interesting feature in the use of role-play. Students can enter the environment in any character and participate by anticipating the way in which their given character would interact. In nursing this has particular application. The application of role-play...
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Brain Tumors Brain Stem
1,215 wordsBrain CanceThe brain is the center of thought, emotion, memory, speech, and many more, and it is the most sophisticated organ in the human body. A hard skull protects the brain where it floats in a fluid called Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF). The brain is generally set apart from the rest of the body, and functions rather differently too. Most of the brain cells are called astrocytes, and they basically support and serve the 10 billion working cells that are called neurons. These neurons make about 1...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Eating Disorders Eating Disorders
609 wordsEating Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Eating disorders are a growing problem in teenagers of today. According to an Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) study, eighty-six percent of eating disorder victims report their problem before the age of twenty. The two main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that usually strikes women. There are about seven million women who have anorexia, and many of th...
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Zero Tolerance Drug Trade
780 wordsThe Heroin War: Why We Must Change our Battle Plan If a single reason can be given to illustrate the urgent need for reform of the current Australian drug policy it is this; that the prohibition strategy is simply not working. The toll from heroin deaths in Victoria has risen 73 percent over the last ten years, addiction and overdose rates are soaring and the price of heroin is declining. The Federal Government is applauding the zero-tolerance regime. The Prime Minister displays the seizure of l...
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Part Of The Body Breast Cancer
1,203 wordsCancer is not just one disease but rather a group of diseases. All forms of cancer cause cells in the body to change and grow out of control. Most types of cancer cells form a lump or mass called a tumor. Cells from the tumor can break away and travel to other parts of the body. There they can continue to grow. This spreading process is called metastasis. When cancer spreads, it is still named after the part of the body where it started. For example, if breast cancer spreads to the lungs, it is ...
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