Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is a topic of concern due to the significant impact on the health of the mother‚ child‚ and community. The resources available for supporting the needs of teenage mothers are decreasing; resulting in the majority of teenage mothers being caught in the vicious cycle of poverty‚ school failure‚ and limited life options (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2000). In the United States more than 40% of women become pregnant before they are twenty years old‚ and 50% of teenage pregnancies
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skills‚ that hold promise for preventing the critical public health challenge of overweight and obesity in our children (Berkowitz & Borchard‚ 2014). The pandemic of childhood obesity is truly a nursing concern as it embodies every aspect of the metaparadigm of nursing: person‚ environment‚ health‚ and nursing. Nurses are responsible for being advocates for the patient at the political and legislative level as well. They care for obese children through identifying the causes‚ assessing the condition
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The Roy Adaptation Model Ella Linden POINT LOMA UNIVERSITY The Roy Adaptation Model Sister Callista Roy proposed the Roy Adaptation Model. The person or group responds to stimuli from internal or external environment through control processes or coping mechanisms identified as the regulator and cognator (stabilizer and innovator for the group) subsystems. The regulator processes are essentially automatic‚ while the cognator processes involve perception‚ learning‚ judgment‚ and emotion. The
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take leading roles alongside men in these issues. Women were able to manipulate the ideology of ‘separate spheres’ to relate public sphere issues such as women’s health to their duties as wives and mothers. For example‚ in 1889 Millicent Garrett Fawcett argued for votes for women on the basis that “we want to see the home and the domestic side of things to count for more in politics”. By using women’s domestic responsibilities as the basis for their political arguments‚ women could justify a public
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Importance of Theory Tricia Creviston RN-BSN NR- 501 January 18‚ 2015 Dr. Carin Tripodina Legacy‚ what is Legacy? As a nurse there is history and meaning behind everything that we do and stand for‚ this is based on our nursing legacy. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines legacy as: “something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past” (Merriam-Webster‚ 2015). The theoretical basis for our nursing interventions and knowledge is wrapped up in the legacy
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High-Risk Family Assessment and Health Promotion NUR/542 August 11‚ 2014 Professor James Bon High-Risk Families A high-risk family is a family unit that is at an increased risk for emotional‚ intellectual‚ or developmental problem because of the type of environment or circumstances that is occurring within the family unit. Adults and children that are involved in these high-risk family units are at a higher risk to develop problems‚ both physically and emotionally. There are
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INTRODUCTION Donnabelle Allauigan and Ericka Sarmiento In an ever-changing world‚ society tends to become increasingly diverse‚ in terms of behaviors‚ values beliefs and norms. With constant internal and environmental stimuli‚ such behaviors‚ values‚ beliefs and norms develop overtime which creates a mark in the mind of every individual‚ and is observed through social practices‚ religious structures and artistic expression. The end result of such change is what we recognize now as culture.
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COMMON SYNTHETIC PLASTICS INRODUCTION Plastic molecules are made of long chains of repeating units called monomers. The atoms that make up a plastic’s monomers and the arrangement of the monomers within the molecule both determine many of the plastic’s properties. Plastics are one of the classification of polymers .If a polymer is shaped into hard and tough utility articles
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Technovation‚ Vol Evans‚ J.R. and Dean‚ J.W. (2002)‚ Total Quality: Management‚ Organization and Strategy‚ South-Western College Publishing‚ Cincinatti‚ OH. Fawcett‚ S.E.‚ Allred‚ C.‚ Magnan‚ G.M. and Ogden‚ J. (2009a)‚ “Benchmarking the viability of SCM for entrepreneurial business model design”‚ Benchmarking: An International Journal‚ Fawcett‚ S.E.‚ Wallin‚ C.‚ Allred‚ C. and Magnan‚ G. (2009b)‚ “Supply chain information-sharing: benchmarking a proven path”‚ Benchmarking: An International Journal
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transportation. The transportation sector involves the taxation of gasoline. Gasoline balances on a positive and negative line. On one hand‚ it provides transportation for the majority of citizens and companies in North America. However‚ Menkes and Fawcett explain‚ “octane enhancing constituents of gasoline pose a number of health hazards including metallic (lead‚ manganese)‚ aromatic (e.g.‚ benzene)‚ and oxygenated additives in both industrialized and developing countries”(1997‚270). When approaching
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