Air Pollution Earth is the only place in the universe that can support human life. It is very important that we realize this fact and take very good care of it. Various human activities cause the destruction of earth. Human beings can live a few days without food and water however humans can last only a few seconds without oxygen. Various human activities lead to the aggravation of the quality of air.
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PHI 3200 Professor Greig Mulberry November 28‚ 2012 Brittney Wiggs November 28‚ 2012 PHI 3200 Professor Greig Mulberry Case Study: Mr. Martinez The case study goes as such: Mr. Martinez was a seventy-five year old COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patient. He was in the hospital because of an upper respiratory tract infection. He and his wife had already requested that CPR should not be performed if he required it and a DNR is placed in his charts. While in his room on third
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Parker1 Avery Parker Smoking Bans Essay English 1301 Wooldridge 06 August 2012 Banned Against Smoking Smoking has always been a bad habit for most people‚ some more than others. Regardless of awareness that smoking damages their health‚ smokers could not easily give up on smoking due to physical and mental addiction‚ stress‚ and peer pressure. Dozens of localities and a number of states have enacted sweeping smoking bans. To many people tobacco smoke is considered as air pollution. Smoking
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ice-breakers to start a conversation (Lantry‚ 2009). However‚ smoking is the greatest cause of illness‚ because cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemicals‚ including over 50 known carcinogens and other poisons (Patient UK‚ 2008). Major diseases caused by smoking are:
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1. My understanding of the business problem: There are two problems in this business that combine to make one big issue. First‚ we have a major shortage of caregivers. This is not specific to the VNA‚ it’s happening all over the country. But it’s a big problem for all agencies right now. People just don’t want to do this job because it’s hard and low-paying. Second‚ we are shortly going to be “graded” on our clients who have potentially avoidable events. All home health agencies are facing this
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woman who has just been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ a type of lung disease‚ after she was taken to the emergency room (ER) for chest pain with shortness of breath‚ while vacationing with her partner Charles. Candice has been smoking one pack of cigarettes daily for the past twenty-five years‚ with multiple unsuccessful attempts of cessation. The ER doctor has warned Candice that she can possibly develop emphysema‚ also a lung disease‚ if she does not quit smoking soon
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Lynes (2010) stated that PLB has better outcomes for patients with stable and unstable COPD. Jo looked worried in the beginning as it was her first meeting with the pulmonary rehabilitation team. Therefore‚ I stayed with her throughout the session‚ explained everything and reassured her which helped to establish a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. Saracino (2007) defines the therapeutic relationship as a professional
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for the other and lead to the misdiagnosis and treatments that are associated with each respiratory disease. If one has never been faced with the reality of living with either of these diseases knowing what to look for is something that is not easy. While asthma and COPD are both similar respiratory defects‚ COPD is often misdiagnosed asthma and goes untreated. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory of the airways. The inflammation of the airways is usually associated with constant wheezing
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the arms and legs‚an inabilty to concentrate on their work and coughing more than usual.These unpleasent symptoms make some people continue to smoke‚even though the symptoms usually disappear in a relatively short time. Smoking causes a number of diseases‚some of them life-threatening.Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals‚some of which are harmful to the body.We shall find more about the ones that have been linked to health problems. · NICOTINE This is the addictive drug that is present in
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According to Lung.org cigarette smoke has over 4‚800 chemicals with sixty-nine known chemicals to cause cancer. Even with just one inhale all of those chemicals will enter the lungs. Cigarette smoke has been also connected to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. On top of COPD‚ cigarettes also cause the lungs to shrink and turn black‚ thus causing inability to breathe deeply and less oxygen in the blood
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