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Sleep deprivation continues to be a growing issue regarding a student’s academic performance. Many students in all types of education are experiencing inadequate sleep as they are obtaining about one and a half hours less than the recommended sleep duration of eight and a half hours. (Lund, Reider, Whiting and Prichard, 2010). The cause of this issue is often due to excessive workloads and academic stress that induce problems in a student’s sleep schedule. However, continuously experiencing poor…

Summary of Study Hypothesis. Leichsenring and Leibing (2003) addressed several questions in their study: What is the evidence of improvement in symptoms, social functioning, or core psychopathology after psychodynamic therapy or cognitive therapy? Is there evidence of improvement in specific types of personality disorders after psychodynamic therapy or cognitive behavior therapy?, Do individuals with personality disorders recover after psychodynamic therapy or cognitive behavior therapy? Are…

Peanut allergies are one of the most common food allergies and can induce acute symptoms from skin reactions such as urticarial and atopic eczema to life-threatening anaphylactic reactions.1 This particular allergy adversely affects a patient’s quality of life due to dietary restrictions as well as the need for ready emergency medications in case of an anaphylactic reaction.2 Peanut allergies are a global health issue that affects about 1-3% of western children with a sudden increase in the…

develop properly or not. It is critical to recognize these behaviors in others and ourselves so that when they arise, we know what they could mean and how we can handle them. Resources Antisocial personality disorder. (2016, July 29). Retrieved from Medline Plus website: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000921.htm Fischman, J. (2011, June 17). Criminal minds. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.lili.id…

nutrition. As she drinks and she is pregnant, it will become more dangers for her baby. Then it will consequent complications to the fetus. The baby 's blood vessels, heart and brain will start to grow in the early weeks. (Mersch, 2014) According to Medline Plus" There is no "safe" level of alcohol use during pregnancy. Larger amounts of alcohol appear to increase the problems. Binge drinking is more harmful than drinking small amounts of alcohol." Also recently increased the number of pregnant…

The Ethics of Abortion and Nurse Abortion continues to be a moral and ethical dilemma for all those involved. From the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of Ethics, “nurses have the ethical and moral obligation to promote and protect life”. Debates continue, opposing the belief of life against the principle of autonomy and woman’s right to regulate her body. It is disputable that the right to have an abortion is a right to dominate one’s body, but the death of the fetus is an inevitable…

Hypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or above, or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or above, or currently taking medication to lower blood pressure (Burt, Gu & Nwankwo, 2014). Hypertension is a chronic medical condition that affects an estimated 67 million American adults and causing about 348,000 American deaths (in 2009) with a total cost to the nation of $47.5 billion annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). African Americans develop…

Despite the fact that I am a biology major at LSU, my interests outside of academics are quite varied. I love the complexity and mystery that the scientific field possesses, but my passions tend to fall more along the lines of science fiction as opposed to fact. My brothers and I all have supernatural thrillers, scifi adventures, and comic books about aliens and mutants stacked up on the shelves of our bookcases. That’s why, when I was telling my family about how I needed a topic relating to my…

“Danger signs in pregnancy” was found in the Health Reference Center Academic database from the Tennessee Electric Library. Despite the unidentified author, the article remains credible because of the status of the publication on an academic database. The article addresses the danger signs that are found in pregnancy. The layout of the text is a bulleted list of information of all the dangers, and then an in-depth coverage of the listed topics, in addition to the bulleted list, the article lists…

Immunization is the process of making an individual resistant to an infectious disease by the administration of a vaccine. It is regarded as one of the most significant achievement in public health because of its role in the prevention of over two million deaths annually and the control of communicable diseases like measles and polio (World Health Organisation, 2016). However, most people continue to avoid this form of primary prevention due to concerns over vaccine safety. In 1998, Andrew…