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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as the act of aiding individuals and communities in making informed decisions for their health. The goal of health promotion is to empower people to take charge of their well-being, while also enabling organizations and communities to address all factors that impact health. Effective health promotion requires…

The Medical Protection Society define a profession as a “calling or vocation involving a degree of skill, learning or science”. Professionalism is a set of core values, behaviors and beliefs that are based around integrity, duty, honesty and competence in clinical skills. (Sarah Whitehouse, 2013) Professionalism in the healthcare workplace is based on putting patients’…

Introduction The purpose of the experiment was to oxidize and identify an unknown alcohol using hypochlorite, or household bleach. During the experiment, the bleach oxidized the secondary unknown alcohol into a liquid ketone which was distilled or boiled to find the boiling point and then identified using a chart of unknown identities and boiling points….

Paracetamol is ill soluble in cold H2O, but more so in hot H2O. One portion of paracetamol is soluble in 70 parts of H2O at room temperature, and 1 in 20 parts in boiling H2O. The aqueous solubility is elsewhere reported as 14.7 mg.ml-1 at 20A°C, 14.3 mg.ml-1 at 25A°C and 23.7 mg.ml-1 at 37A°C.[…

Abstract Rechtschaffen (1983) and his students at the University of Chicago conducted a study on the effects of sleep loss on rats. Their experiments showed that well-controlled and sustained sleep deprivation were uniformly fatal to rodents. Human studies on the effects of sleep deprivation yielded results that are similar to those of Rechtschaffen’s. The Study…

Super Size Me Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock decided to go on a McDonald’s binge diet for one month in order to prove or disprove the health risks of fast food. Spurlock was given this idea by two girls who were at the time perusing lawsuits against the company for their health problems. The two girls claimed…

Emily Dickinson, as a poetic writer, composed most of her works with the theme of death, the entirety of which can be categorised into three different periods of writings; the earliest mainly contained the themes of death and immortality, personifying death and elegiac poems and lacked the intensity and urgency of her later poems or…

Nurses who regularly see children in their practice are currently treating victims of child abuse, including sexual abuse and neglect, whether they know it or not. The causes of child abuse and neglect are complex and varied, and occur in all types of families and settings. Nurses must always remain alert to the possibility that…

Since I was a child, I have always dreamed of becoming a nurse. When I was 18, I became a Certified Nursing Assistant, and though I have had several other jobs since then, I always found myself getting back into nursing. In my early thirties, in addition to having my two children I became a…

The basic purpose of Healthcare Organizations is to meet the healthcare needs of individuals and to promote health of the community. Goals of such facilities is to provide practical assistance, improve quality of life, help people become self-sufficient and to deliver wellness care. For me as a future nurse it’s really important to know such…