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Secondhand Smoke and Public Policy

to be the "third leading cause of preventable death in the United States," as it constitutes a "major source of indoor air polluti...

STD Abstinence-Only Education/Is It Working?

any longer than the regular sex education curriculum that is taught in many schools and that "Morality needs to incorporate realit...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

Scope of Practice and APN Roles

This research paper presents an examination of nursing empirical literature that covers a number of issues relevant to advanced pr...

Can Friendships Reduce Employee Turnover

and communication networks. This section is followed by a literature review that discusses prior research related to organizatio...

Effectiveness of CBT With Schizophrenia

that precedes the first episode of psychosis in schizophrenia is referred to as the "preprodromal period...and the prodrome" and i...

The G-Spot, Real or Myth?

as to whether or not the G-spot actually exists from the time that Dr. Ernst Grafenberg first described it in 1950. At that time, ...

Heat-Related Illness

system impairment and cardiovascular failure" are all significant to the pathology of heat stroke (Lim and Mackinnon, 2006, p. 39)...

PTSD Group Therapy for Veterans

This research paper presents empirical information that the student can use to develop group therapy that addresses the needs of v...

Reducing Central Line Infections

blood stream infection (BSI) (CVC, 2005). *The Central Line (CL) Bundle, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (...

Which is Worse Carbs or Fats

Diet Revolution in 1972. It was at about the same time that Americans were just accepting the official notices that saturated fat ...

CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

Reflections on the Concept of Self

be, the "self," derives from memories of past experiences in the context of present relationships and situations. While the popula...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Changing a Dangerous Situation

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

Maori Culture and Crime

as the concept of the constructionism explanation has formed the basis for many social polices and programs that are in place to t...

Research Proposal to Assess the Problems Associated with Foreign Aid in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the worlds fourth largest recipient of international aid, but many of the goals set by the aid providers are not be...

Effect of Divorce on Children

This essay pertains to how divorce affects children. The writer/tutor relates personal experience, as well as additional material ...

Student Retention Two-Year Institution

This paper describes a program to retain at risk students in community colleges. The program is based on empirical studies that id...

Reality Orientation, Remiscence, and CBT

This paper explains, describes, and discusses three specific therapies that can be used with dementia patients. They are: reality ...

How to Utilize Databases

This paper pertains to the health challenge inherent in hospital acquired infection and focuses on the process of searching databa...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Part II of a Proposed Intervention

This paper pertains to the second part of a proposed intervention to decrease the incidence of underage drinking on college campus...

Crtically Analyzing an Empirical Study

premise of the studies presented, then, is to determine whether the fears that are created as a result of this belief in focus are...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Carper's 4 Knowledge Types and Nursing Evaluation

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

School Uniforms and Their Impact

conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2000, surveyed 755 principals across the nation. Some of ...