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McNamee, David Week 3 Chapter 4 Assignment 1. Why are some risks acceptable? As stated in the supplemental article, some form of risk will always be present and unavoidable. As stated in the article, natural disasters and hardware failure are unavoidable and therefore acceptable. It must be understood that risk can be mitigated but not eliminated. Another example that might be used is driving your car. Your car may break down or you may get into an accident, there is no way of knowing, this is…

Predicting vigorous physical activity using social cognitive theory. American Journal of Health Behavior, 27(4), 301-310. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.27.4.2 Riegelman, R., & Kirkwood, B. (2015). Public health 101: Healthy people-healthy populations (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Scaffa, M.E., Reitz, S.M. & Pizzi, M.A. (2010). Occupational therapy in the promotion of health & wellness. Philadelphia, P.A.:F. A.…

We Were Liars is the book that I chose to read this quarter. The setting of the book is Beechwood Island, Massachusetts. Even though the main character lives in Burlington, Vermont, her family goes to the island every summer. The main characters are Cadence, Harris, and Gat. Cadence suffered a bad head injury during her childhood, but nobody will tell her what happened to her. She doesn’t know what happened, but she knows that her family does. Harris is Cadence’s grandfather, who built houses…

Community Health Philosophy Bhumika Chaudhari Nebraska Wesleyan University Sep 29 2015 The concept of community health nurse is the provision of nursing care for collective people, bound in relationships that are called families, other groups, aggregates, and communities (Holzemer and Klainberg, 2014). Proving nursing care to the clients in community involves additional responsibility of caring for the client as a nurse in community setting. Nurse has that caring nature that she has to apply…

Supporting equal rights for the LGBT community, Bernie Sanders at the time of being mayor of Burlington, Vermont had promoted the city’s first ever Pride Parade with honor. Bernie Sanders believes equality begins, when injustice ends. Though it’s not only the LGBT community getting the discrimination; women today are getting discriminated against…

Home care services face several challenges such as funding limitations and geographical distances which make resources more expensive for patients. There are recurrent discussions on how to improve quality and efficiency of care, and the hope that these advances in technology take the leap to improve quality of healthcare. Thus, the integration of information technology can enhance home health care services. Technological innovation such as telecommunications, web solutions and social networking…

A person is only able to use force when it is self-defense and they are threatened with imminent harm. If a person strikes another person on the condition of future harm and self-defense, they may not be entitled to rely on self-defense (Brody & Acker, 2010). When a woman assaults or kills her abusive husband, it is especially relevant (Brody & Acker, 2010). Battered Woman Syndrome theory was developed in the 1970’s for abused women. It is sometimes used in court as a mitigation in homicide…

Enderle, J., & Bronzino, J. (2012). Introduction to biomedical engineering . Burlington, MA: Elsevier. The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the scientific field of biomedical engineering. It provides the reader with a broad definition of the subject, its areas of study, branches, and disciplines. The text was primarily intended for engineering students in their sophomore or senior years in college who have a strong mathematical background and are interested in pursuing an…

letters from her less dramatic sister-in-law, Mary Abigail Platt Darwin. Though she was less prolific, Platt was a woman that perfectly exemplified the nineteenth century themes that were sweeping the nation. She was a busy wife and mother living in Burlington, Iowa, yet she comments, participates,…

Based on a true story The following information you are about to read is loosely based on true events. The names, locations and minor unnoticeable details have been changed. Even though I corrected the statement to make it slightly more true, it is something along those lines. We never know exactly how true, but it admittedly makes those events slightly more terrifying when we believe it to be real. “Real” events such as murders, massacres and even the spiritual dark side. The moment we realize…