Reflection Seven Description: After working for nine months in acute mental health settings‚ I was allocated to go to a rehabilitation stream open ward with long-stay patients. Feelings: Initially I found the transition quite difficult as the style of nursing is markedly different in a rehabilitation ward as opposed to an acute ward. I was not confident at first as to what my role entailed on the ward‚ and how to best assist the patients work towards achieving discharge from the ward. I also
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your addictions? Even though we know more about the dangers of smoking‚ it sill haunts society. Not only does smoking have many dangers‚ physical outcomes‚ and costs‚ but also there are also many positive steps to combat this tribal habit. Some dangers of smoking are minor outcomes such as: problems breathing‚ wrinkles‚ and bad smelling clothes‚ hair‚ skin changes to yellowish color from the toxins in cigarettes. Major outcomes from smoking are risks of catching cancer such as lung cancer‚ cancer of
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Prevention of Smoking in Adolescents A man named Bryan‚ who lived in St. Petersburg‚ Florida‚ started smoking when he was 13 years old. Throughout his high school years‚ he smoked about twenty cigarettes a day with no problem. At age 33‚ he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died six weeks later. He left behind a wife and a three year old son (Landry). Each day‚ nearly six thousand children under the age of eighteen start smoking; of these six thousand‚ two thousand will become regular smokers
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INTRODUCTION Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco or cannabis‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use‚ as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes‚ primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling
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10: Peer Pressure While there are certainly other influences that can lead a smoker into the habit‚ peer pressure is one of the biggest. A large part of the reason peer pressure comes under scrutiny is that one of the groups most likely to begin smoking -- young teenagers -- is also one of the most susceptible to peer pressure. The awkward years between pure‚ dependent-on-parents childhood and independent young adulthood are marked for many by frustration and insecurity as status‚ family roles and
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Original Research The smoking habits‚ attitudes towards smoking and knowledge regarding anti-smoking legislation of students in institutions of higher learning in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa Awotedu AA‚ FMCP (Nig)‚ FCCP‚ FCP (SA-PR)‚ Department of Internal Medicine‚ Walter Sisulu University‚ Mthatha Jordaan ER‚ MSc‚ Biostatistics Unit‚ Medical Research Council of South Africa‚ Tygerberg Ndukwana OZB‚ BACur‚ BACurHons (UNISA)‚ MPH‚ Department of Health Promotion‚ Walter Sisulu University
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Smoking - effects on your body Summary Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco smoke that causes smokers to continue to smoke. Addicted smokers need enough nicotine over a day to �feel normal� � to satisfy cravings or control their mood. How much nicotine a smoker needs determines how much smoke they are likely to inhale‚ no matter what type of cigarette they smoke. Along with nicotine‚ smokers also inhale about 7‚000 other chemicals in cigarette smoke. Many of these chemicals come from burning
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FAMILY PROBLEM AND ITS EFFECT TO THE STUDENTS CLASS PERFORMANCE _________________________ A Research Paper Presented to Mrs. Dinah L. Mission‚ English – IV Teacher _________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English-IV by: Em Chafari Talamo Cajes Jessa Mae Caba Avila February 2013 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Apart from the efforts of me and to my partner‚ the success of this project depends largely on the encouragement and guidelines of many others
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in today’s society is smoking. Yet each year‚ cigarette smoking kills more Americans than AIDS‚ alcohol‚ car accidents‚ homicides‚ suicides‚ illegal drugs and fires combined. Smoking is an extremely bad pastime‚ practiced for centuries‚ for an individual’s health and those surrounding him/her. People start for many different reasons and get addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes. Smoking cause many fatal diseases‚ but help is available to those who seek it. Cigarette smoking is a disgusting and unhealthy
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prove‚ the responsibility for fixing this problem is landlords’. We’ve been plagued with this since we moved in on January 2‚ 2010. Since that time no actions were taken on our complaints‚ or any response followed to our explanations that secondhand smoke is making us sick‚ filtering in from nearby offices. Soon‚ our lawyers can take legal actions. We’ve announced that we were forced to hire contractors to apply weather stripping and seal
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