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Although the issues of sexual assault on college campuses are starting to be taken seriously, the precautions these schools have established must be publicized in order to ensure the safety of their students. The Research On Campus Sexual Assault Sexual assault on university campuses has been a major issue. There have been many cases involving victims of sexual assault and sexual misconduct. Several students that have been sexually assaulted on school campuses seek to have their predator…

college education; the costs are too high to ignore. Works Cited CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016, October 7). National Center for Health Statistics . Retrieved January 10, 2017, from cdc.gov: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Choy, S. P. (2001). Students Whose Parents Did Not Go to College: Postsecondary Access, Persistence, and Attainment. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington, DC: NCES 2001–126,.…

One of the most repulsive acts a person commits is smoking. Having all of those carcinogens going into your body is like a death sentence. To top it off, people who smoke publicly affect their peers. Having designated smoking areas in public places would reduce the risk of second hand smoking. There are too many health risks that affect victims of secondhand smoke. Smoking areas would not only lessen the amount of people affected by secondhand smoke, but it would also decrease the number of…

linked with chronic kidney disease, or 156 of 75,000 deaths; this means that the person could have died from other reasons, but the patient did have chronic kidney disease (Midwest Kidney Network. Dialysis Deaths, 2015), (South Dakota Department of Health. At a Glance in 2014, 2015). Nationally, 0.0149% of all deaths are from some stage of chronic kidney disease, meaning that the death is as a result of this disease (Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Kidney Disease FastStats, 2013).…

known about the horrifying disease but I am here to help inform the public and to keep it safe. Chagas disease is also known as American trypanosomiasis. It is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. It is spread particularly by insects known as Triatominae. This bug may also be known to most individuals as the kissing bugs. There are many symptoms to this and the symptoms vary over time with the infection. During the earlier stages of the disease, symptoms are…

Early reports on epilepsy go back to ancient Assyrian and Babylonian texts. It has a fascinating history that scans a period of almost 4000 years. At that time the Babylonians had no concept of pathology, thus epilepsy and the seizures that are often times associated with it were treated as spiritual and not medical. It wasn't until the 18th and 19th century, when medicine made important advances, that religious superstition emancipated the fact that epilepsy was a medical condition. The word…

In recent years, our ever increasing information and technology has played a vital role in changing nursing practice. Evidence based practice (EBP) will continue to have a positive impact on the care that we provide our patients and will continue to advance our healthcare system. There have been various quality improvement initiatives that have been adopted to advance patient care and safety. In these articles, a major goal that has been identified in the hospital setting is effective…

research indicates that several modes of treatment should be used with opioid dependent individuals, these include: crisis intervention, detox services, agonist maintenance, relapse prevention education and psycho-social therapies. In recent years the US government has made substantial investments in opioid treatment and prevention measures. Nevertheless, the continuing trend for opioid dependence treatment indicates that agonist maintenance management is the central treatment modality.…

a result of this act was called the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. The program 's inception was developed with federal funding appropriated by the public act (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2015a). The program served as the first federally mandated breast cancer prevention program for low- income and uninsured women. According to the CDC (2015a), the program had many successful attributes. For instance, the program was able to reach 4.8 million women and…

ranging in size from 120-300nm, its envelope contains two proteins and two glycoproteins, according to virology-online. It has two subtypes A and B with, it is believed that subtype A exhibits more severe episodes. The incubation period of the disease is typically three to eight days. The virus attacks syncytium, defined by biology-online.org as “an epithelium or tissue from characterized cytoplasmic continuity, or large mass of cytoplasm not separated into individual cells and containing…