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A major role of practicing healthcare professionals in today’s society is their moral and ethical approaches to a patient’s overall care. In this specific case, Martha Rogers, an 85-year-old gerontology patient, was admitted to a psychiatric unit of the hospital due to confusion and increasing irritability. Following evaluation, healthcare providers found she was dehydrated which may have caused some of the symptoms that she was undergoing; Mrs. Rogers, however, became calm and cooperative with…

is whose hands are so gnarled by arthritis, she cannot dress or turn the knob on her kitchen stove. She is keenly alert, but she may wind up in a nursing home anyway, at a tab of $60,000 a year, because there is no way she can live alone. The widow and her grown children are shocked to discover that Medicare won't pay for her care in a nursing home. Only when she impoverishes herself,…

that manage it all and make a final decision on whether they should or should not be adopted should be more caring and thoughtful since they do not think of the side effects the kids may encounter. “Placements in overcrowded and inadequate foster homes fail to provide for children 's basic needs. Beyond this, some governmental officials have consciously abdicated their obligation to provide remedial protection for foster children even where they have specific knowledge of threatened or actual…

GirlChild is a fiction novel written by Tupelo Hassman. The setting takes place in the dirty roads of the Calle de la Flores, a bunch of trailer homes making it a trailer park, uniting all people that live there the same, outside the small town of Reno, Nevada in the 1980s. This well known novel is about a young girl that shares her life story that comes with many struggles and obstacles. One of the main Character is Rory Dawn Hendrix. She is the young girl that this novel is mainly about.…

services. Nursing homes The service is a long term health care service offered by normally physicians or entrepreneurs who can associate with quality physicians in the industry and offer services to society. The main element of success lies in the hands…

the game and that fan base. He was able to bring fans back to the game with his style, performance, passion, and character. He was an instantly likeable player that was able to draw fans into a game they had lost faith in. A game that had taken advantage of them and made them feel betrayed. By Ruth's ability to do this, he was the most influential player in baseball. To understand the influence Ruth had in the game, one must first look at his past. He was born in Baltimore in 1895 and was a…

Christian D’Antonio Ms. Chakraborty Chemistry 21 25 March 2016 Research Paper Superpowers at Your Fingertips 9.79 seconds. 762 career home runs. 7 Tour De France wins. All of these statistics are extremely impressive, and one would think they would be world records. They were at one point. But former Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson, MLB baseball player Barry Bonds and cyclist Lance Armstrong all have admitted to using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), also known as anabolic steroids, thus…

Bottom of the 9th. Bases loaded. 2 outs. Title on the line. I knew I would be the one to lead my team to victory and send us home. We had been battling the Harvard Westlake Werewolves for 6 grueling innings. A pitcher's duel to say the least, as Division I bound Kyle Nicol had thrown a shutout up until this point. Unfortunately for us, so had their ace pitcher, McCabe Slye. All of our hard work came down to this point. We came into this tournament against all odds. Our entire starting lineup…

instead cheated to give themselves an unfair advantage. These men and women are supposed to be the role models for today 's youth athletes. But these days, it’s sad because if an athlete has a remarkable year, or a remarkable night or even an amazing hit, most people will wonder if they had that remarkable milestone because they are taking steroids or performance enhancing drugs. If David Ortiz hits 100 home runs next year as compared to his 37 home runs in 2015, I’d like to think that it’s…

Students are constantly asked, ever since a young age, the question of “what do you want to be when you grow up”, and this is a question that happens to encompass life. The idea of deciding a major just happens to be the first stepping-stone into the “real world”. Diving head first into the world of majors can be a very terrifying place, but that’s why many explore different pathways, to discover one’s true calling, one’s niche. While I am unsure about my future endeavors, I would like to think…