A better future: Primary Health Care Primary health care is a term used to describe a system where a patient’s health care needs are attended to by the most appropriately trained individual. This method of health care delivery has been called a “team based approach” (Health Canada‚ 2006). Instead of seeing the doctor for every health concern‚ other health professionals such as nurse practitioners‚ pharmacists‚ dieticians or physiotherapists may be called upon to take care of your concerns. In this
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This paper aims to define the term primary health and explain its origins and development; also touching on the impact of primary health on the nursing profession. It will commence with an introduction to primary health and primary health care. Covered in this paper will also be the influence that primary health care has had on nursing and any alterations associated with its implementation. Primary health care aims to provide a health care framework that steps away from the acute care focus and brings
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The article I chose is “Nurse-led detox in primary care. In my paper I will be discussing how alcohol detoxification works in London in a primary care setting. In the case of this article the primary care setting is considered working together with a nurse specialist in a community detox center. In most cases a referral is made by the primary care physician to the nurse specialist. There are two different referral categories’ that are used in London. The first referral is for patients with
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The type of primaries that should be operating in North Carolina is an open primary not a closed primary. The reasons North Carolina should operate on an open primary is to enable voters in both parties to vote whoever they favored the most‚ allowing voters to vote in opposite parties‚ and reduces stress when going through the voting process since most of the voter ballots will include both parties’ leaders instead having leaders assigned to the voter party. On the side note‚ North Carolina should
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When I was fourteen I made the jump from public school in Kuala Lumpur to attend a Buddhist boarding school in a monastic community. It’s located in rural northern California‚ and called Developing Virtue Secondary School [DVS]. This decision was part of a promise to challenge myself academically‚ build my character‚ adhere to strict ethical and behavioral guidelines‚ develop myself religiously‚ and find service in the community. However‚ I failed to follow my own guidelines during Thanksgiving break
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Primary Source Analysis Thomas Paine Common Sense Context: In result of The Seven Years’ War Britain controlled American trade and territory. In order to pay for the expenses of the war several taxation acts and military presence were implemented such as the Sugar Act‚ Stamp Act‚ Currency Act‚ Quartering Act and the presence of British troops at the colonies. Consequently‚ Americans who thought these actions violated their political and constitutional liberties opposed these policies with petitions
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Potter 1 Rebecca Potter Gray Section 4975 12 May 2015 Primary Source Analysis on The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who has also founded The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She describes the "Feminine Mystique" as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl‚ an uneducated and unemployed teenager‚ and finally as a wife and mother
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10/24/2017 Gino Cendejas Dr. White‚ HIST 1113l Primary Source Review: The Story of The Flood A bustling young region renown for being the cradle of civilizations‚ Mesopotamia‚ is the setting of this epic poem‚ The Story of The Flood. The Story of The Flood is embodied into the 11th tablet of 12‚ that together‚ compose the many heroic stories of The Epic of Gilgamesh. This narrative is the oldest piece of Epic Western Literature‚ that is of Sumerian/Babylonian origins. It is believed to have been
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AP Biology Dissolved Oxygen and Aquatic Primary Productivity Purpose: To measure and analyze the primary productivity of natural waters of laboratory cultures using screens to simulate the decrease of light with increasing depth. Background: Dissolved oxygen (DO) is how oxygen is measured. Oxygen is required in cellular respiration‚ so it is very important for aquatic life. When more oxygen is consumed than is produced‚ dissolved oxygen levels decline and some animals could die if they do not
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American Revolution. England had been situated in the Americas for over a hundred and fifty years and had maintained a dominant establishment. So why was there a revolution? There were multiple causes of the American Revolution; however‚ a primary reason for the revolution was for economic self- interest. Leading up to the American Revolution‚ there were plenty of occasions were England provoked the Colonies. The beginning of economic despair for the colonies‚ started with the
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