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Help Look After Our Soldiers
697 wordsImagine me helping the war effort. Tending to those back from the war. The notice said", Look after our soldiers", but as an impressionable child, I be lived what the picture showed The sign was up, bold and proud on St Mary's Hospital wall. The picture showed a young nurse helping a smiling soldier in a warm cosy room. The big, bold, black letters shouted", Help look after our soldiers. Enroll in the war effort today!" . All I wanted to do was help those smiling soldiers, just like in the pictu...
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Wiswell Study On The Risks Of Circumcision
1,644 wordsMale Circumcision: A Social and Medical Misconception University of Johns Hopkins Introduction Male circumcision is defined as a surgical procedure in which the prepuce of the penis is separated from the glands and excised. (Mosby, 1986) Dating as far back as 2800 BC, circumcision has been performed as a part of religious ceremony, as a puberty or premarital rite, as a disciplinary measure, as a reprieve against the toxic effects of vaginal blood, and as a mark of slavery. (Milos & Macros, 1992)...
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Volunteer Nurse
3,375 wordsThe dictionary describes the word humane as humane adj. Kind, compassionate, merciful. and this was indeed so in the case of the volunteers who worked tirelessly to ease the suffering of the wounded soldiers of all combatants in the fields of northern France and Belgium, during the First World War. In the early days of the war, army nursing was strictly a male preserve, until it was necessary to recruit female nurses from the ranks of middle and upper class ladies. The warm summer days preceding...
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Physicians Assistant Web Allied Health Programs
4,283 words(this paper is very precise with several pages explaining the books that I read and even the list of pages of every piece that I had cited. I relieved a A for this paper and it is 15 pages long History of the Physicians Assistant Occupation Jayme K. Hansen 13 December 1999 Course: LC 393 Professor: Ettinger, Laura The year is 1959, and Mr. Scott has had a migraine headache for the past few weeks and so he drives to the local Potsdam Hospital. The poignant antiseptic smell fills his nostrils as h...
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Union Nurse
339 wordsWomen were a great effect in the civil war. Many women would disguise themselves as men or spies to fight in the war. Other women would be nurses, aides, and doctors on the battlefield. Women who were not part of the civil war still mad a great effect by manufacturing things to the war. Women as spies were particular effective. The people they helped were very grateful. Belle Boyd a teenager known as 'La Belle Rebella' was one of the most famous spies. after being arrested six times it still did...
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Convicted Nurse
523 wordsUnprofessional Conduct. Unprofessional Conduct according to the Arkansas State Board of Nursing is detailed in ASBN Rules and Regulations, Chapter 7, Section XV, #6. The section states the following conduct are considered unprofessional. Failing to assess, evaluate, and intervene, Incorrect documentation, Misappropriation of residents property, Medication and Treatment errors, Performing or attempting to perform procedures that the nurse is untrained to do, Violating confidentiality. Neglect / A...
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Elaine Chase Faces Four Misconduct Charges Nurse
968 wordsElaine Chase faces four misconduct charges nurse who injected a terminally ill teenager with morphine twice in five minutes has insisted she was acting on instructions and in his best interests. The 16-year old boy, who was suffering from cancer, died a couple of hours after Elaine chase gave him the pain-killing drug. On Friday, the 51-year old fro Benfleet, Essex, insisted the boy's comfort was her priority. She denied four misconduct charges at the Nursing and Midwifery council. Following ins...
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Civil War Nurse
578 wordsCivil War Nursing Over 5000 volunteer nurses' north and south served in military hospitals during the Civil War. Nurses were of all sorts and came from all over. Women wanted to be involved in this national struggle in any way they could. They did not want to stay home and play their traditional domestic roles that social convention and minimal career opportunities had confined the majority of their sex to. Many women thought of nursing as an extension of their home duties, almost like taking ca...
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Continuing Education Of Their Nursing Staff
2,600 wordsIntroduction Change which has been well planned can in effect be the most important contributory factor to any projects eventual success. Upton and Brooks [1995] say:' dissatisfaction alone is not sufficient to bring about change: people have to believe that the proposed change would lead to an improvement 'All staff within the NHS in recent years have experienced change [ref], particularly change that has been politically led and therefore experienced a process which has in effect changed the c...
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Billy's Mother And Nurse Ratched
883 words"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Female Importance Until modern times, society validated that a man's role was at work, while a woman was required to stay home and play the role of the main caregiver. Men were given power and authority, and women, contradictory to men, were expected to be humble and subservient. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey reverses the stereotypical gender roles to show that the chaotic and sometimes tragically comic world of a mental institution. In the n...
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Army And Navy Nurses
954 wordsMilitary nurses were very much involved in the turmoil at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, working under tremendous pressure during the aftermath of the morning's raids. The Japanese attack left 2,235 servicemen and 68 civilians dead. Eighty-two Army nurses were serving at three Army Medical Facilities in Hawaii that infamous December morning. Hundreds of casualties suffering from burns and shock were treated by Army and Navy nurses working side-by-side with civilian nurses and doctors. Nurses at S...
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Young Doctors And Michael Christian
1,203 wordsAt first reading, this story seems to be a little discouraging. The boy telling the story, the main character Michael Christian, and the other children reside in this home where the Old Head Nurse oversees and there only link to the outside world is a black and white cracked Zenith television set with no knobs, a dime stuck in the channel selector and the sound and picture work at different times. There was the Human Skeleton that would bite people, the Big Boy who ran away every night, and the ...
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McMurphy Watches As The Big Nurse
2,788 wordsThe novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey was published in 1962 and was a best seller of its time. The novel was important for its time because of its anti-establishment message. The United States government at the time was involved in a struggle and the American people were concerned over the threat of nuclear war. The theme of the novel is the individual versus society. I will prove using text from the novel and other critical works that the politics and rules of the hospital mimic...
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Highest Cases Of Malpractice And Negligence
300 wordsThis article is about a study done in the United States, on nurses and malpractice and negligent issues. This article covers how this study defined and tracked the malpractice cases in the states. It then gives you a brief description of what is classified as negligence and malpractice. It then explains possible things or concerns that may have contributed to these malpractices occurring. They then went into explaining the areas of nursing that have the highest cases of malpractice and negligenc...
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Personal Philosophy Of Nursing The Word Philosophy
1,533 wordsPersonal Philosophy of Nursing The word philosophy is derived from the Greek and Latin word philosophic, the love of wisdom. It is defined as the "critical examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs and an analysis of the basic concepts employed in the expression of such beliefs". (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002) Nursing philosophy then, would be the examination of the fundamental beliefs about nursing practice. That it were so simple! It is the time consuming, soul-searching act of comp...
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Nurse Anesthetists
1,532 wordsWho would have thought that a small carbon based organic compound such as ether would spawn a new field of medical specializations, changing the history of medicine for ever. Ether was discovered in 1275 by a Spanish chemist named Raymundus Lull ius, (Evans, 1995, p 1). It was his discovery that allowed William E. Clark to use ether as an anesthetic for the first time in 1842. He administered the ether on a dental patient for Elijah Pope as he performed a dental extraction on Miss Hobbie, (Evans...
