Contents Introduction How to use this guidance Chapter 1: Principles of safe and appropriate handling of medicines Chapter 2: Handling medicines in social care settings • Controlled drugs • Disposing of medicines • Medicine administration • Minor ailments • Record-keeping • Storage of medicines • Self-administration of medicine • Staff training Chapter 3: Handling medicines — requirements for specific services • Adult placement • Boarding schools‚ school care accommodation‚ special residential schools
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significant environmental damage. Let ’s face it. We don ’t want safe nuclear power plants. We want NO nuclear power plants —A spokesman for the Government Accountability Project‚ an offshoot of the Institute for Policy Studies‚ The American Spectator‚ Vol 18‚ No. 11‚ Nov. 1965The Atomic Energy Commission which was created in 1953 wanted to initiate nuclear power‚ to push towards nuclear weapons and to make plans to use peaceful nuclear explosives for civil engineering projects.
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1. Environmental impacts of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste or radioactive waste is the residue of nuclear reactors‚ nuclear researches‚ nuclear projects and nuclear bomb reaction. Nuclear wastes‚ also known as spent fuel‚ are dangerously radioactive and could exist for thousands of years. The release of nuclear waste from its reactor could easily cause a lot of diseases like acute radiation sickness. The injection of nuclear waste to underground water causes water pollution and could contribute
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Medieval medicine‚ an oxymoronic statement‚ was rife with corruption and malpractice and was quite possibly one of the worst medical catastrophes in history. The Middle Ages was an interesting time for medicine. Doctors knew very little in the way of medicine. Their knowledge was sparse due to the of the lack of technology and no way to see into the body without killing or causing great harm to the patient.They were in high demand due to the diseases that plagued the Medieval Age. Plenty
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“Nuclear energy research initially was concentrated on producing an atomic bomb for use in World War II. The development of nuclear energy for… the generation of electricity began only after the war ended in 1945” (Miller 1). Due to quick assumptions and little research‚ nuclear energy is thought of to be a safety hazard and used for weaponry and destruction amongst people. However‚ nuclear energy is more than mere darkness. People do not realize that there is more to nuclear energy than danger.
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Nuclear Proliferation Affecting The World in a Negative Way For the past thirty years‚ Iran and North Korea have been trying to develop and design a nuclear warhead‚ nowadays; American spies say that Iran has built a Uranium enrichment plant on Qum. Uranium enrichment is the hardest step in order to produce nuclear weapon‚ and North Korea has already tested nuclear weapons the past years. This is a way to prove that nuclear proliferation keeps increasing in the world and this could balance the
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Disadvantages of Nuclear Power http://wanttoknowit.com/disadvantages-of-nuclear-power/ The Basics of Nuclear Power Nuclear power is generated from a metal called uranium. Uranium is mined in places such as Australia‚ Argentina‚ Canada‚ Brazil‚ China‚ France and many other countries. The uranium is used to create controlled nuclear reactions called nuclear fission. Nuclear fission gives off a tremendous amount of heat which is used to heat water to create steam. This steam turns turbines which
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The Use of Computers in Medicine The use of computer technology has greatly enhanced the medical field. This is particularly so in hospital environments where reliability and quality are critical factors. Many computer applications‚ such as patient information systems‚ monitoring and control systems and diagnostic systems‚ have been used to enhance healthcare. In the hospital‚ patient information systems allow doctors at different locations to access permanent patient records from a centralized
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Medicine is a treatment‚ which was used to prevent illnesses and diseases of all kinds. Different types of diseases were dangerously life-threatening to majority of the victims. Before then‚ if a person happened to be ill‚ there was not a guaranteed cure to treat the disease at the time. In the late 1800s‚ medical cures such as patent or herbal medicines‚ were promoted and sold but did not provide the desired aid for the illness. In the 1920s‚ scientists and doctors researched and discovered treatments
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Hippocrates Born: c.460 BC at Kos‚ Ancient Greece Died: c.370 BC at Larissa‚ Ancient Greece Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician who was born around 460 BC on Cos‚ an Aegean island. Many consider him to be the “father of medicine” because he transformed the path of Greek medicine. He believed that diseases were caused by some type of natural action instead of being caused by the spirits or gods. His Early Life: Hippocrates was the son of Praxithea and Heracleides. His family’s wealth allowed him
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