Essays on Human Services.

Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are complications that occur while patients undergo treatment and are often associated with invasive procedures and devices. According to Magill et al. (2014), about 721,800 HAIs occurred in acute care settings in 2011 with the top five types of infections being pneumonia, gastrointestinal infection, urinary tract infection (UTI), bloodstream infection, and surgical site infection (SSI). However, most HAIs are preventable through adherence to prevention standards and the implementation of related programs. The purpose of this paper is to explore current HAI standards and HAI prevention programs.

Standards

The “Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections ...

Abstract

Contemporary attachment theory also known as modern attachment theory is a psychological paradigm that seeks to elucidate the changes of long term and short term relational association among humans. The theory specializes on specific aspects of human response to specific occurrences in their lives rather than the general relationships. For instance, a young child will develop a strong attachment to the person who is taking care of them regularly. On the other hand self psychology theory is an advanced psychoanalytic theory whereby efforts to understand individuals from within subjective experience is made through abnormal self-examination basing renditions on the ...

The growing need for social services and economic benefits governments are becoming increasingly incapable of catering for due to chronic budget constraints has opened up regulatory space for newer forms of non-for-profit organizations. True, social work (and, for that matter, entrepreneurship) has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. However, social entrepreneurship (aimed at broader public good by setting up innovative, self-funding business models) has, given more conventional company structure and organization laws, made public good an elusive goal. The introduction of Community Interest Company (CIC) model under Companies Act 2006 ("What is a CIC?") has, however, opened ...

Stage I: Accumulation

This period starts when a person enter the workforce and start putting aside finances for later in one’s life, and closures when a person really resign. On the off chance that one’s employer offers pension plans, the person would have to join and would also have to make a decision regarding contributions to the fund. In the event that a person is independently employed or a businessperson, they would have to take care of registering themselves with an insurance plan and with the social security networks .

Stage II: Pre-Retirement

This stage happens amid the last years of the collection stage ...

II. General Information Dorothea Orem is one of America’s foremost nursing theorists. She was born on1914 in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a diploma of nursing at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C. Later in 1939, she receive a BS in Nursing Education in Catholic University of America. In 1945, she received her Master’s Degree in Nursing Education in the same university. She worked as a staff nurse, private duty nurse, nurse educator and administrator and nurse consultant. In 1971, she published her first book Nursing: Concepts of Practice and subsequent editions were published in 1980, 1985, 1991, 1995 ...

Informed Consent in Healthcare Services

Informed Consent in Healthcare Services With the implementation of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) in 1996, new privacy regulations were in place concerning issues such as informed consent and patient authorization (Stember, 2005, p. 10). It was important for professionals to fully understand the fact of these new regulations on policies and activities so that they could ensure they were conforming to best practices. In the human services field, it is quite common for the terms "informed consent" and "authorization" for professionals to use these two terms interchangeably when referring to a written permission form that grants ...

Chapter eleven of the Handbook of HIV and Social Work: Principles, Practice, and Populations discusses the political and legislative intervention for HIV. The chapter is entitled “HIV Related and Legislative Intervention” and is authored by Gary Bailey. In this chapter, Bailey (2010) talks about the challenges in legislative advocacy, especially those for HIV-related policies. According to Bailey (2010), advocates primarily focus on four areas, which are (1) prevention, education and science, (2) racial and ethnic disparities in health care, (3) privacy and confidentiality, and (4) funding. Moreover, Bailey (2010) provides a short review of the terms and a basic ...

The case presented below concerns a four-year-old boy, accompanied to the clinical office by the mother. She reported that the boy had endured illness for five days, manifesting symptoms such as fever, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, and pain in the leg. Despite the reported leg pains, the child seemed to walk with no difficulty. System review presented fevers, myalgia and chills. The mother also explained that the child experienced a running nose and occasional coughs. Further, the mother also ruled out dizziness, hearing impairments and headaches. The patient reported a stomachache, witnessed by a lack of bowel movement. ...

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Abstract Every speech is embellished by metaphoric expression, despite its context, content, and tone. In different fields the application of metaphors may vary, yet still they are applied regardless the situation consciously or unconsciously. In the speech of adults, metaphoric expressions play pivotal role serving as the instruments of persuasion, simplification, and demonstration. There is less evidence that explain the utilization of metaphors by children. Some scholars insist that children use metaphoric expressions unconsciously, while the other researchers imply that they implement the metaphors due to their symbolic perception of the environment. There is certain inconsistency in the results ...

The Final Project intervention which I have identified is about intervention in health issues of Native American community. The success of this project require heavy financial investment and I do not have sufficient funds to implement on my own. I have been looking for external funding from public and private organizations. To date, I have identified two sources of funding. One of them is First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) while the other is the National Institute for Health (NIH). FNDI is RFP while the National Institute for Health is FOA. The NIH is American public research agency involved with ...

INTRODUCTION

In its most basic form, counseling is about helping other people to help themselves. Professional school counseling is a specialized form of counseling which focuses on the specific needs of students and helps them to achieve the highest and best levels of their potential. The purpose of this report is to provide a 3-step analysis of the career of professional counseling. It is a final project which synthesizes and presents a practical exegesis into the concept of school counseling and how it occurs in American high schools. This report will be focused on the state of New York and ...

Define the function of health records. How are they used in hospital, clinical and human service settings?

Among the changes that have infiltrated the healthcare system is the adoption and use of health records. Health records can be described as the electronic and systematic collection and storage of data of patients and populations over and across time in a digitalized format (Menachemi & Collum, 2011). The collected and stored information replaces the traditional storage of data in paper format which has essentially proved difficult to manage, update and retrieve. The electronic storage of information offers timely and easy retrieval as well as sharing of the data across healthcare facilities and government agencies as well as insurance companies ...

Social issues are prevalent amongst people in the community and the entire world. They interfere with the health and well-being of individuals. Human services are the crucial programs that enhance and support the outcomes and quality of life in the society. They are the lifeblood of the communities because they improve the well-being of the vulnerable and disadvantaged people while averting expensive measures. The services include substance abuse treatment, mental health, job training, and childcare. One of the social issues that have risen over the decades is child poverty. In addition to the effects it inflicts on the kids, ...

Abstract

This paper focuses on a potential client for a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). The client to be discussed is Brett Mitchell, a twenty-five-year-old African American male who is unemployed, and the child of recovering drug-dependent parents. Studies show that Adult Children of Addicts (ACoAs) present with a range of symptoms that run the gamut of psychiatric and stress-related disorders, from substance-abuse disorders and other addictions to depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and maladaptive coping mechanisms. In the case of the client to be discussed in this paper, he is seeking counseling for identity confusion, depression and arrested psychosocial development. ...

The Affordable Care Act is regarded as one of the major revolutions that the US healthcare system has experienced over the years. With its major objective set at increasing care access for populations in an equitable manner, including the disadvantaged groups, the ACA has been mentioned as an entity that has impacted on individual, family and community or public health (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2016). At the helm of the ACA has been the focus on public health and its revamping in a bid to rescue the currently ‘sick system’ to a desired ‘health system’. The ACA’ ...

Introduction

The American Psychological Association defined clinical psychology as a field in psychology that specializes in the theory and clinical knowledge that is set on the better understanding of mental and behavioral health. A key point in its practice is the objective of gaining better knowledge about distress symptoms that are psychologically related, and to administer a clinical program that address such dysfunction. There are a diverse range of professional services that are offered by clinical psychologists such as the administration and interpretation of mental and behavioral assessment and the subsequent provision of treatment. This paper aims to discuss the ...

One of the most widely used job analysis methods is the interview method. The analysis includes both structured and unstructured parts to increase the accuracy and validity. According to the data collected the ultimate goal of social worker is helping different categories of people to increase their well-being and quality of life. Social worker mostly deals with oppressed, marginalized groups and individuals that include people with mental and emotional problems, the elderly, refugees, drug and alcohol abusers, the homeless, children and those who suffer from trauma or poor family conditions. Social workers play a variety of roles within different ...

According to the personality test, I belong to the ESFJ-A type that is advised to seek career opportunities requiring high organization skills, the creation and maintenance of order and the provision of help to others. As an ESFJ, I am, thus, likely to achieve full potential as a nurse, a teacher, a physician, an administrator, a social worker, a counselor, etc. Indeed, my current career aspirations lie in the fields of counselling and social work. This career choice has been primarily influenced by my long-time affection for people and genuine interest in almost every individual I meet. Since adolescence ...

HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a communicable pathogen majorly responsible for the prevalence of AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in a majority of the population. According to the report generated by WHO (2013), there were over 35 million people infected with HIV. When compared to the general populations, the virus is most common in gay and bisexual men, Caribbean and African communities, Aboriginal populations, women and people injecting illicit drugs . HIV is present in the semen, blood, breast milk or vaginal fluid of the infected individuals. While the likelihood of contracting HIV through the casual environment is ...

Personal Change Paper

Personal Change Paper

Introduction

Things tend to change by an individual’s perceptions about it. Working in an environment requires an individual to amend the desired insights based on the experiences. For being a competent part of a large system like Child and Youth Care (CYC), the aspect of working reality entails a whole new meaning as one has to deal with the family and community altogether (Jones-Smith, 2011). It becomes essential to behave by the requirements of the working field rather than reflecting their personal motives and behaviors. In this regard, the paper intends to present the need for ...

Serving others is as essential to my existence as breathing. When I was only 12 years old, I was a Special Olympics volunteer where I trained and supervised both horses and riders in the equestrian competition. My dedication to the service of others has also found expression through my work with the American Cancer Society's "Look Good, Feel Better" program, where I cut and fitted wigs, as well as taught make-up techniques to cancer patients while they underwent chemotherapy. In addition, I proudly served a local battered women's shelter by providing haircuts to its residents. I strongly believe that ...

Written by Brian Giddens (2010), the seventh chapter of Handbook of HIV and Social Work addresses the HIV social work. Since its first documented case, HIV is now seen as a chronic disease rather than a terminal condition. Many patients, after being diagnosed with HIV, have been subjected to treatment and medication prolonging life. Aside from medical treatment, the path to recuperating from HIV also needs social workers. Giddens describe social work as ancillary to medical health care since patients require assistance in obtaining essential resources (i.e. food and shelter). Essentially, social workers provide the services the patients need ...

The first chapter, written by Ryan M. Kull (2010), of the book entitled Handbook of HIV and Social Work concerns with the history as well as the processes involved in the transmission and treatment of the HIV disease. Kull defines HIV as a viral disease caused by the retrovirus known as the human immunodeficiency virus, and an untreated and uncontrolled HIV may progress to a fatal condition called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Deaths related to AIDS were first documented in 1981 and since then, HIV has progressed to become pandemic. However, since the method of transmission of the ...

Evaluation of Career Development in Social Work

The requirements and salary range depend on several factor, namely the educational degree of the employees, their previous experience, actual job description, and the state. In the majority of cases, the employers require MSW; such positions are paid accordingly. Less frequently the companies search for specialists with BSW and the work usually tend to be temporary and low-paid (Reisch and Jarman-Rohde 202). Some of the positions require the applicants to pass a test to evaluate their proficiency. In several cases, additional specific certification were required, like Activities Director Certified (ADC) or Modular Education Program for Activities Professionals (MEPAP) if ...

Transformative Care; Treatment of Mental Illness

It is the courage and strength of both the sick and the health care providers who fight so valiantly for their future that has fostered my dream of pursuing a career in healthcare and my application to the University of Alabama. The opportunity to learn from a vast array of talented individuals is inspiring. Exposure to the unique backgrounds of my potential peers and professors will be invaluable in lending to innovation and compliment my own experiences. As a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, I seek to increase my knowledge and acceptance of behavioral health issues, effectively removing the stigma of ...

Although the US has recorded hundreds of proposed reforms to its healthcare system, few have been enacted into law. In 2010, however, a landmark reform was enacted with the hope that it would improve access to affordable care. Since its enactment, the Affordable Care Act has seen several changes made to the US healthcare system (United Health Foundation, 2016). Subsequently, the impact of these changes on the state of health in the various states has emerged as an important area of study. In view of this, the current paper compares and contrasts the state of health in the states ...

Classmate 1 Comment

The answer presented by the first classmate portrays filial piety as the aspect of respecting one’s ancestors, fathers, and elders. The practice is highly prevalent in countries found in East Asia such as China, Korea, and Japan. Filial piety was common during the ancient times. People believed in ancestral worship saying that there was always a forefather watching over the current generation. Unfortunately, most individuals today have stopped trusting the tradition. Those who conduct the activity only do it because they are directed to do so and not because they place any value. According to the passage, the ...

Over the last decade the rate of mental illness has grown significantly among University students (Storrie et al., 2010). Though it may be rewarding to earn a University degree, students enrolled at a University are at an increased risk of mental health issues. University students often fall into a vicious cycle of stress, maladaptive coping, and compromised health (Storrie et al., 2010, Chao, 2011), all of which significantly impact the effective performance, and the likelihood they will be able to complete the degree (Chao, 2011, Rahmati, 2015, Storrie et al., 2010). Therefore, an increase of interventions aimed at reaching ...

The link between a social worker and their client tends to evolve over time just like any other relationship. For the relationship to work it must be positive and acceptable to both parties; there should be a mutual respect and harmonious interaction as well as communication between all the parties involved (Humphrey, 56). The social work is appointment by the government to help people in dire situations, to determine whether or not their living conditions require them to be put into the welfare system and to decide in the cases of children whether they should be put into foster ...

Introduction

The work of health and social care worker is often regarded as a vital component of ensuring the society’s well being. On the other hand, being in this field of work also requires a much deeper understanding of various social and health conditions. Understanding specific needs in health and social care is imperative in ensuring that the root cause of the problem is being addressed. The discussion encompasses an analysis of the concepts of health, disability, illness and behavior in relation to the responsibilities of the health and social work. In addition, the discussion will also assess how ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is mandated to protect the overall wellbeing and health of the American citizens. To perpetrate its mandate and fulfill its duties, the department hires and trains a myriad of professionals in different fields. Social workers are important components of the HHS department in achieving its duties. A social worker ensures the social welfare of communities, families, individuals, and populations. To ensure social welfare, a social worker actively undertakes research in different fields affecting the welfare of the population, plans and develops policies intended to address the identified issues, and provides interventions ...

Epidemiology forms the foundation of public health and nursing in its entirety. As such, understanding the demographic patterns, causes as well as effects of a disease enables the nurses to make appropriate decisions, identify the risk factors and subsequently come up with evidence-based intervention strategies to mitigate the effects of the disease. The purpose of this paper is to identify a communicable illness in Ghana and describe its history as well as its pathophysiology. Additionally, the paper will discuss the demographic patterns of the illness, risk factors of the illness and the evidence-based approaches that have been used to ...

Although the number of deaths of military service members in the recent times has significantly reduced, there are still many of them who do not die but suffer severe injuries. For instance, in Korea and Vietnam, approximately three Americans were wounded for every one officer who died. In Iraq, sixteen soldiers get sick or are wounded for every person who dies. Additionally, those who do return injured are usually amputees or injured in such a way that it will take many years for treatment, both physical and psychological, for them to heal. Therefore, it is important that civilian counselors ...

A process that needs to be improved in my organization is the patient admission and discharge process. The three concepts that I would use are benchmarking, data gathering, and usability evaluation.

Benchmarking

This is the evaluation of other organizations’ best practices and metrics and determining how they can be applied to one’s organization (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d.b.). I will use this as basis for the changes that need to be made in my organization’s workflows. For example, I would examine the processes of St. Johns Hopkins Hospital and see if I can pattern my organization’ ...

The Belmont Report

The Belmont Report was designed to ensure that practitioners and psychologists in the United States upheld ethical standards in psychological studies. Historically, three ethical principles have been developed as guiding principles as a result of the Belmont Report; each of these principles must be adhered to by anyone or any organization that is using human test subjects during the course of their work. These three ethical principles emphasize respect for persons, beneficence, and justice—without adherence to these principles, the ethical study can and should be considered inappropriate and should not be conducted. Each of these three facets of ...

Contact Details

Abstract This paper makes and effort to present how the role and the social status of the women changed from the start of the twentieth century to the end . How the women participated in the world affairs and ultimately became a progressive force in the modern society.

The Changing Role of Women

The 21st Century represents an era with a tremendous amount of rhetoric regarding persecution, and/ or myopic bigotry. The obvious irony is that the roughly 200 nations on Earth, roughly 905 of them have established constitutions or commitments to the rights and privileges of their citizens (Chafe & Chafe, 1991). Although established in ...

Health Problem

People are at the epicenter of sustainable development. They deserve a productive and healthy life in correspondence with nature. The ultimate directives of sustainable development cannot be attained if there is a high rate of debilitating diseases. Amongst the key challenging areas that affect the American population and prevent sustainable development is tobacco dependency. One-fourth of the productive individuals, that is, the adults and youth smoke and use tobacco. The rates have been increasing even since the 90s. The health issue is currently the leading contributor to preventable death and diseases in the nation. The overall attempt to improve ...

Qualitative research methods such as case studies, comparative and historical approaches have gained popularity and relevance as research methods within the field of social research such as international relations. This prominence has mainly been attributed to the unique features and advantages that these methods enjoy over other research methods in the study of complex social phenomena, events, groups, relations and communities within specific contexts (Becker, Bryman & Ferguson, 2012). Further, the capability of some of these research methodologies, such as case studies, to provide researchers with the ability or possibility of developing theories, evaluating programs and developing appropriate interventions has ...

REFLECTION ESSAY ON HUMAN SERVICE

John and his siblings have been orphaned for close to three years now. Before their death, their parents were deep in debt and all their property was claimed by the creditors to settle their debts. With no connection to their immediate family, they were left with no one to look after. Their necessities such as food, clothes and shelter are rarely met because they have no one they can depend on. They are constantly begging on the streets and sleep on boxes under bridges. One day, they met Adam, well-wisher who works as a social worker and runs a ...

Risks emerge from the complex interrelationships between natural and manmade hazards and threats such as floods, terrorist attacks, material spills, power outages, hurricanes, etc. The vital infrastructure and key assets are vulnerable to the occurrences due to their virtual, physical, and geographical interconnections. CIKR protective measures balance the strength and resiliency of the United States during the adverse times. Through the utilization of preparedness, focus, risk-based protection, and prevention activities, the country can manage all the hazards they face. This article is a formal report directed to the Chief Police in Homeland Security and other top officers to expand ...

Introduction

The research article “Service User Involvement in Social Work Research: Learning from an Adoption Research Project”, created by Jeanette Cossar and Elsbeth Neil in 2013 starts unwieldy employing abundant jargon language, but it rapidly reshapes in a comprehensive and informative text. The article consists of six sections, across which the authors elaborate on the matter of using service users, namely birth relative consultants, in the adoption process, investigating both the process and the impact of their involvement in this process. Cossar and Neil place their article in the context of a governmental project meant to assess the cost, challenges ...

The institutional affiliation

Nowadays with increasing expenses on healthcare sector, many people still cannot have the proper medical service. At this point, it becomes the sphere of interest for social workers who help such people to navigate the world of healthcare. Social workers address the social, emotional and financial needs that often accompany healthcare issues. Thus, they help people to deal with difficulties which happen to be the consequences of life traumas, crucial changes and social injustice (Sokanu.com, 2016). During my university practice I had the chance to meet many people with certain disabilities and also children from low-income or dysfunctional families ...

Executive Summary

While the allocation of tax dollars is a constant debate amongst Americans, regardless of legislative positions, the issue of welfare seems to be a particularly complicated one. To that end, many states (including yours) have instituted (or tried to institute) laws requiring welfare recipients to undergo mandatory drug tests. While this is an admirable idea in concept, the social and economic effects far outweigh any sense of moral righteousness one might feel for keeping welfare recipients in their place, as well as deals with unconstitutional ideas of unreasonable searches. To that end, I humbly propose that these programs be ...

Vignettes

Vignettes The interaction of social, psychological, and biological aspects make up the biopsychosocial perspective. This perspective attributes complicated events or phenomena to a number of causes.

Florence should be depressed and ashamed (psychological) about having her children in foster care. She can only visit them with supervision. She most likely is lonely and without friends because of her negative reputation of having been in jail (social). Since she is renting a room and not living with the family members, and is still on probation, the connections with family and friends is very minimal or absent. The Hispanics believe strongly ...

Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Doctors and medical staff, today, comprehend that actualizing an EHR is an extravagant suggestion. Having better data in regards to the expenses of supporting an EHR-empowered restorative practice would support doctors in settling on better choices with respect to execution and streamlining. It would likewise encourage valuable exchanges between doctors, executives, other potential financial specialists and lawmakers with respect to how to counterbalance the immediate and circuitous expenses identified with robotizing clinical care in a doctor office setting so that the finished objective of upgrading clinical consideration can be figured it out. Reports demonstrate that EHR selection ...

Why Policy needs to be developed

A reflection of the United States in the yester-years shows that homelessness was not as widespread as it is at the moment. Currently, close to 800,000 people are homeless and lack adequate access to sustainable livelihoods. Programs and organizations seeking to address the social concern of homelessness have attained little as evident by the fact that close to 2.3 million to 3.5 million people experience homelessness every year (Burt et al., 2007). In addition, federal investment of close to 2 billion dollars each year on the homelessness concerns has not made any significant difference. The homeless people continue ...

Vocabulary lists record that a family is "a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household." Families contain several different people related in specific ways, including father, mother, and children.  This view extends to include step relations, in-laws, grandparents, and other relatives.

In literature, there are various definitions of a family.  The basic definition is founded on the significance of human reproduction and underscores that children need parenting for quite a long time. Functional theories evaluate the value of accomplishing roles by families. But if family roles are abandoned, a family is referred to as a dysfunctional family.  Another view of the ...

Karpetis, George. "How experienced social workers apply recovery-oriented mental health policies in everyday practice." European Journal of Social Work 23.1 (2020): 106-117.

Social workers are the first line helpers to people who have recently suffered stress, trauma, and crisis events. They go through various training to handle these individuals because each individual has a different perspective and crisis or trauma that they may have undergone, and each one of them requires a different kind of attention. Most of these techniques that social workers use include offering psychological first aid, listening to the victim, and offering them a temporary ...

The Affordable Care Act was a healthcare reform introduced in March 2010, widely known as Obamacare or PPACA (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2018). The law has three significant objectives (U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2018):

Stuart ...

During the early years in life, I struggled with the issue of finding a purpose for my life since I drew inspiration from different individuals in different fields. However, as I grew up and began interacting with more people, I began to understand the different roles of people in society. The most impactful experience in my life was during a church activity where we volunteered to help feed and clothe the homeless within the community. The fulfillment I got from this activity was the life-changing experience that made me determine what my purpose in life would be. I knew that my ...

A number of potential job seekers have expressed concern over whether or not we have a wide enough selecting of employers to suit all of the candidates’ needs. Furthermore, many of the well qualified candidates would like employment opportunities that include more perks and more sought after working environments.

I feel that the best way to service these job seekers needs is to establish a working relationship with the companies on the Fortune 100 List of the Best Places to Work. These workplaces offer some of the best work environments for ...

1- Historical span

Hull House was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams, and her partner Ellen Gates Starr, as the first settlement house in the United States. The building was a run-down mansion constructed by Charles Hull in 1856, and Adams and Starr turned it into a place where poor immigrants could come to be fed, sheltered, educated and overall taken care of. Hull House made social services and cultural events available for the residents of the house, and overall provided a means by which Addams and Starr could take care of these disenfranchised immigrants who were hoping to start over again in the new ...

OUTLINE

These slides attempt to estimate the extent of the problem, and point out that teenage alcohol use is probably half of what it was in 1975. It has been declining for twenty years, due in part to raising the drinking age and public education campaigns against drunk driving.

Some studies tend to overestimate this problem, which is actually a declining one.

One fairly recent estimate places the number of heavy drinkers in age 12-to-21 group at 2 million and the number of alcoholics at about 1.1 million, but these estimates vary widely by age, social class, ethnicity, location and how the questions are framed.

Almost certainly there are far more ...

INTRODUCTION

The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), which allows physician to prescribe lethal drugs to competent terminally ill patients was put in place to ensure that suffering patients end their lives in a humane and dignified manner (Smith, Goy, Harvath & Ganzini, 2011).Prior to its enactment in October 1997, numerous researches had been carried out which showed that towards the end of their lives, terminally ill patients usually suffers tremendously, thus going through a lot of pain. Family members had to sit and watch their loved ones writhe in pain and wither away to nothing. This pain had to be controlled. ...

Along with the vehement development of technologies the ways for committing crimes become more sophisticated as well as the targets and their realization become more accessible. The main goals of law enforcement units are to investigate the crimes and bring the criminals to justice on the one hand and to prevent the society from being a victim of crimes on the other. The methods of crime investigation are powerfully supported by new computer techniques, more full and detailed databases which make the investigation and prevention of crimes against individuals, groups of individuals and their property more successful. The ...

If there should be no alcohol in public places until aged 21

“Teen who killed five admitted drink-driving 'all the time'”. The Age Victoria online publication of November 14, 2012 screamed this headline. The then 19 year old Steven Johnstone's VicRoads' admitted to his friends that he drove in an inebriated state all the time. The news article further states that just after midnight in Mill Park on January 17, 2010, Steven was speeding in his car along with five passengers. While driving, he ignored the red lights and was also talking on the mobile phone. It was at this stage that he lost control of the car which crashed with a ...

People are unconsciously embracing slow and painful death every single day. This is evident from the thousands of people who smoke cigarettes on a daily basis despite being warned and reminded that smoking is harmful and it kills. According to a report prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, currently, 42.1 million of American adults are smokers (Jamal et al.). Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that smoke-related illnesses accounts for around 480, 000 deaths annually in the United States, which makes cigarette smoking as the number one cause of ...

DISCUSSION

Antidepressant and anxiolytic effects of smoking are known to the smoking population, despite the popular belief that smoking has a positive mood affects. The evidence established in Boden, Fergusson, & Horwood (2010) and other literature that have linked smoking to depression assert that the smoking population may actually be vindicated. Regardless of the direction of the causal relationship; it is still a statistically significant relationship with important practical implications. It is possible that the relationship could even be bidierectional, which effectively marries the research findings from both extremes, with infrequenet or acute smoking leading to a reduction in the negative mood affect, while ...

Thesis statement

Children of Hispanic and Chicano descent integrated into foster homes in cross-cultural adoptions experience life-changing events that can interrupt with their normal lives that require to be addressed in their new homes.

Introduction

Child adoption is the legal process of identifying and accepting a child by foster parents as a new member of the family. Among Latin communities, child adoption is a concern due to the increasing inter-cultural adoption of Chicano children by white foster parents. The Chicano cultural values, beliefs, and religion among other things are some of the elements of culture during and after adoption that need to be addressed as ...

Human digestive system is distinctively different from herbivores and carnivores. Herbivores normally have longer digestive system compared to human and herbivores have digestive anatomy and bacteria symbiosis that allow them to digest cellulose from plant materials. Cellulose digestion in herbivores is assisted by bacteria in the rumen (partitioned stomach) or in the cecum (hindgut fermentation) in the case of cows and horses respectively. Carnivores have shorter digestive system compared to human, as carnivore’s nutrition comes from meat that can readily be broken down by enzymes into protein and amino acids.

Human is categorized as omnivore, and human ...