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    This group is comprised of Travis Coffey, Isiah Collie, Thomas Baker and Jermaine Windster. The American Heart Association was established in 1924 by six cardiologists. Presently, the current number of volunteers and supporters of the organization is greater than "22.5 million" (American Heart Association, 2015). The American Heart Association (AHA) is a national voluntary health organization whose main purpose is to develop national health and educational campaigns to raise awareness about heart disease, its diagnosis and treatment nationwide. The functions and roles of the AHA include offering financial assistance for novel and contemporary research, ensures that the provision of public health education including CPR training, healthy lifestyle…

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    The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. (American heart association) 1924, six cardiologists, recognizing a need for a national association, formed the American Heart Association (AHA). They thought a national organization could efficiently share research and promote findings better than as separate groups. “The AHA remained small until the 1940s”, when a big donation from Procter and Gamble caught…

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    Who has been benefited by the AHA? The American Heart Association has benefited many people. They help people who face heart problems, stroke, and diabetes. In other words, they want to reduce the number of deaths. The reason behind this is because these 3 problems are on the top 10 reasons why people die. Some examples of heart problems are heart failure, heart disease, and cardiac arrest. In addition, those who have faced these are changing their lifestyles so that they can fight these…

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    In 1997, the American Heart Association brought together the organization’s stroke-related activities as American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. In an effort to get women involved in increasing stroke awareness, The Power of Women in Media was created as a brand that symbolizes women banding together through the effective use of social and traditional media to increase stroke awareness and whose mission it is to empower women to begin a movement that will stimulate collective…

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    For this weeks assignment I chose to discuss the ethical practices of the American Heart Association. “The American Heart Association (AHA) builds their research team on values of Integrity, Excellence, Vision, Dedication, Inclusiveness, and Sensitivity” (AHA, 2011). It is the standard of the AHA to treat human subjects with respect. In addition the AHA treats all tissue and cells derived from experimental subject with the same respect. According to the AHA “ The American Heart Association…

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    study we will be focusing on the evolution of the American Heart Association’s and analyze the creation of a side project called, Go Red For Women. In the opening section of this study we will touch on the history of the association as a whole, the development of ‘Go Red for Women and the mission statement behind the organization. Succeeding, we go into depth over the association’s history and will draw from AHA AND (BLANK) to show the evolution and growth the non-profit organization has had…

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    intraosseous access over a central line or to administer drugs via the endotracheal tube. A manual IO needle was placed into the proximal tibia and medication was infused. This rapid IO vascular access quickly allowed adrenalin to be given resulting in return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and palpable pulses (Anson, 2015).These cases highlights the success of IO placement in resuscitative techniques when gaining vascular is essential. The IO use is gaining popularity in the emergencies and…

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    whether these stoppages really were caused by the antitrust exemption. Now revealed is the problem that the antitrust exemption has caused not only by money but also by work stoppages. (Smith) Some other solutions explained by Mr. Fehr that could help the league from including the fact that players without contracts would be protected against the arbitrary imposition of greatly reduced contracts if the owners tie the law with court challenges. Also, he explained that it would tie the law to…

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    did this in a time when the United States was overall callous, uncaring, and hostile towards minorities. Sumner became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology, he overcame racial and discriminatory adversities, and he made lasting contributions to the field of psychology. Background & Education To begin, Francis Cecil Sumner was born on…

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    The six major parts of an American Psychological Association (APA) research paper include: title page, abstract, introduction, method section, results section, discussion section, and references section (Weathington, 2010, 156). The first three pages set the stage for the research paper and determine whether the reader will be captured and motivated to continue. The first page of the research paper is the title page which is centered horizontally and consists of: the running head – which is a…

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