Toothbrush

The Painful Two Hour Hospital Wait It was a lovely June day, four days prior to the due date of this writing piece, and for once I was ready to go to Gym class outside. Instead of playing with the other people, because I obviously have no sports skills, I playing with the international students (who were with the beginners). At the end of the game I got ticked in the toe which leads to where this memoir begins. My toe had been bothering me all day after that. I iced it and elevated it but no…

Polyethylene terephthalate, most commonly known as plastic, is a material consisting of a wide range of synthetic and/or semi-synthetic organics that are malleable/ductile and can be molded into many solid objects. Plastics are typically made of organic polymers (chains of carbon or chains of carbon that have been bonded to other elements such as oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur) having high molecular masses, but often contain other substances. Usually being synthetic, and most commonly made from…

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Of Study Oral health is a state of being free from infectious or disease and it has a profound effect on general health (Kiyoshi-Teo & Blegen,2015). According to Pettit, McCann, Schneiderman, Farren & Campbell (2012), there is association between chronic oral infection with the heart and lung disease. Patient with underlying disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is higher risk of aspiration of contaminated respiratory if oral care…

For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might…

The common symptoms of bacterial meningitis are fever, vomiting, severe and persistent headache, stiff and painful neck, confusion, unconsciousness, and seizures. One of apparent signs is that people who has infected are inability to lower their chin to chest due to stiffness in the neck. Symptoms can be varied depends on age as well. In infant or young children, they experience fever, cold, unusual cry, rapid breathing, or grunting, refusing food, and vomiting. In adults, besides those symptoms…

Caregivers and Senior Vision Loss One of the most common age-related conditions in America is vision loss. Most of us will experience at least some level of macular degeneration by the age of 50. Vision loss continues to deteriorate with each additional year. The number of Americans with significant vision loss is expected to double in the next decade as the baby boomer generation ages. In addition to macular degeneration, many more seniors will face vision loss due to injury or illness. Most…

Introduction to security Leg 235 Emergency preparedness plan Home/business/Quiz # 3 Emergency preparedness plan For my floor plan I would have to make sure my plan has normal exit, route extinguisher, smoke detectors , disaster supplies, kit doors, collapsible ladder reunion location outside stairways utility shutoff windows first aid kit. The evacuation route to the outside to my house would be petty simple because I have a long hall way that leads right to the front door. And I always…

filters and if this happens, visit Wal-Mart, a hardware store or home depot to obtain a new one. The last step includes the cleaning of other lawnmower parts such as the spark plug. Locate the plug's tip and pour gasoline over it. Then, use an old toothbrush to thoroughly clean it out. If there is any buildup on the ignition, the gasoline will eliminate it. A lawn mower part such as the spark plug will have to be replaced anyway if you've had it for longer than a year. Just the same as the air…

Amnesia in general refers to a deficit in memory and it is divided into anterograde amnesia or retrograde amnesia depending on whether the deficit is for information that was acquired before or after the onset of the deficit. Most of the times this condition occurs in relative isolation (Rosenbaum, Murphy, & Rich, 2012, p. 47) and other cognitive domains including reasoning abilities, attention, remote memory and skill acquisition or procedural memory generally remain preserved (Duff, Wszalek,…

I never had an experience with the school nurse. Before attending clinical rotation at the LHS, my only assumptions about school nurses was that they only pass prescribed medications, apply bandages, or provide first aid in emergency situations. After the completion of clinical rotation, I say school nursing is much more than I assumed earlier. School nurses have to deal not only students’ “drama”, but with their parents’ lame concerns. Some of the parents think school nurses are doctors,…