... had AIDS. By taking precautions such as wearing gloves when handling wounds, the risk of transmitting the disease is significantly lowered and the integrity of the child with AIDS remains protected. This idea has many faults. For one, children simply cannot be watched at all times. Referring to my earlier statement that kids will be kids. Also, what kind of environment is it to learn in when your teacher can't treat your scrapes without putting rubber gloves on first, a situation which will certainly lead to ridicule from peers. There is a simpler, more affective way of dealing with this issue. EDUCATE. By educating the parents and teachers about ...
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... if the player is able to compete with their condition in a matter of minutes. An athletic trainer also has to prescribe and support equipment to allow athletes to continue playing. Personal and physical characteristics are important to any career. Some jobs are more demanding than others physically. While others suggest a challenge more mentally than physically. Physically For an athletic trainer, physically you must be able to communicate well with athletes on proper use of equipment and confer with coaches and physicians. You also have to kneel, stoop, and crouch to examine and treat injuries. Athletic trainers also should have good hand-eye coordination. T ...
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... Nowadays, however, it continues to be practiced in Africa and the Middle East mostly due to social forces. New reasoning developed through the years to keep the ritual going on. The many reasons given for the practice are bewildering and unfounded in any scientific or medical fact. They fall into four main categories: psycho-sexual, religious, sociological and hygienic. Among the psycho-sexual reasons is a belief that the clitoris is an aggressive organ that threatens the male organ and even endangers babies during delivery. It is believed that if a baby's head touches the mother's clitoris during birth, the child will be born with a low IQ. Hence, a girl who is n ...
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... the American Medical Association to take active and preventive measures toward drug use as well as state medical boards (Mansky, 1996). The American with Disabilities Act protects the drug impaired health professional through recovery and back into his/her job. The problem concerning addicted health professionals seems to affect the public as most of us seek healthcare at one time or another in our lifetimes. First, the definition of impairment must be addressed. According to the American Medical Association’s Council on Mental Health, impairment is "the inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reasons of physical or menta ...
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... After analyzing some of the statistics one may ask, “Why should students be aloud to enjoy a cigarette at the expense of others?” I interviewed several nonsmoking students and asked their opinion on the subject; Maria Malaka, a first year student at SPJC stated, “I hate when people smoke near me, it makes me sick!”. Just about every nonsmoker I asked had close to the same opinion. Of the 24 students I interviewed 5 were smokers. Why should so many of us have to suffer for a small percent of students to reap the benefits? The administrators know the effects of smoking, I guess they’re just not concerned about the well being of their students. Second hand smoke shou ...
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... about their potential contributions…" (Cordes & Dougherty, p.624). Job burn out is best known for occurring among professionals, such as lawyers, nurses and doctors, who often spend large amounts of time in close, and sometimes highly emotional, contact with their clients (Schaufeli & Buunk, 1996). In some workplace situations people do not have all the resources they need, such as time, to do the job as well as they would like. If the employee has a high level of emotional involvement with the job this situation can lead to job burn out; the person is frustrated because they would like to do a better job but they are unable to. Schaufeli and Buunk ( ...
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... to treat them. Some are: feeling sad, worried or depressed; feeling as if your life is dreary and unlikely to improve; had crying spells; become irritated over little things that didn't used to bother you; find you no longer enjoy hobbies and activities that once made you happy; feel a lack of self-confidence or feeling like a failure; lost your appetite, or are eating more than usual; have had trouble sleeping, or been sleeping too much; had trouble concentrating and making decisions; and thought about death and/or suicide. Knowing the causes for depression can help depressed people, friends, family understand how painful it is and why it's not possible to "snap ...
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... tree to compensate, he thought, for his actions. Both Judas and Socrates fit the definition of because they took their own lives. The reasons for why people commit listed on www.psycom.net include reasons that are very selfish. It says ends all your problems in one fell swoop and since you are so different from everyone else and can never fit in, no one will really care and you can have the final say-so in life. In this exit, you will make people feel as you do. The site also claims that it is not the individual's fault for feeling suicidal, but the internal pain is too much for them to deal with. When committing , the highest number of people use a firea ...
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... first, are the normative crisis model and the second includes the timing of events crisis model. The normative crisis model has been powerful in shaping the psychology of the developmental stages as it has allowed theorists to imply that stages of development can follow an age related time sequence. (Gething, 1995). The normative crisis model suggests that human development has a built in ground plan in which crisis as describe by Erikson are seen as a requirement that must be resolved by the person before successful progression from one developmental stage to another. Such achievement of this task crisis should provide the young adult with the ability to chal ...
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... losing custody of their children. Pregnant women who continue to use drugs against medical advice face increased risks of losing their babies once they are born. In some States, they also risk criminal prosecution. (3) Children born to women who use drugs like alcohol, tobacco, or cocaine may have long term health problems. (2) Pregnancy and Smoking Cigarette smoking is associated with severe adverse conditions in newborns, including low birth weight. Infants whose parents smoke are unusually susceptible to pneumonia and bronchitis during their first year. (1) For women trying to become pregnant, smoking may impair fertility. For p ...
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