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can assist them in carrying out their goals. By partnering with doctor Clinton Sharp, a primary care physician, and Tommy Morris, owner and pharmacist of Trinity Specialty Pharmacy, I can assist in bridging the gap between diabetics in Slidell, Louisiana and the community resources that are available to assist them in achieving dietary compliance and medication adherence. Community Assets Several assets are available in the community to assist diabetics in achieving dietary compliance…

Ethical Dilemma: Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratios Jamie R. Dupuy University of Louisiana Lafayette  Ethical Dilemma: Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratios On the night shift in an ICU, a nurse finds herself working, the unit assigned to the Code Blue team with one other RN, no ancillary staff support, and six patients. As she is standing between two patient’s rooms, both of which have alarms sounding, a Code Blue is called on the floor. Which patient should she respond to first?…

to be a successful surgeon who is constantly on the move and constantly helping others. For now, I think that I have found a happy medium to the two extremes of my future plans. My mom owns a fresh seafood business in our hometown of Westwego, Louisiana (right near New Orleans). It is in the “shrimp lot” which is kind of like a farmer’s market, but full of seafood…

not been made. So what can the University do to prevent damage to the campus as well as make the campus a little safer for student walking on the campus? This is where my solutions can be enforced. Architectural pyramids, ramps, pipes, hips, stairs, and many more…

The novel As I Lay Dying is known all around the world to be a Nobel prize book due tothe novelist William Faulkner. Not only is As I lay dying considered a Noble prize bookwhereas, the novel became known in the banned books awareness for the overuse of God’sname, profanity, and abortion which seemed offensive and obscene to people. As ironic as it is,none of the board members had read the book.The Author of As I lay Dying William Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippion September 25th in…

also offered a chance to play professional basketball, a sport that was a wooden high school. However, he passed on the opportunity when he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the 1982 Major League Baseball draft. Dell chose to go to Virginia Tech University, where he needed to play baseball in the spring. But the winter months were for basketball, and that seemed to be his true calling, even after the Baltimore Orioles drafted him in the 1985 MLB draft. Well he was okay in baseball I'm coming…

Nursing Informatics Daniel O’Brien University of Louisiana Lafayette Introduction Informatics, and more specifically, nursing informatics, is continuously playing a larger role in patient care. Informatics is the use of technology and science and making it available to continued and wide spread use (McGonigle, Hunter, Sipes,, & Hebda 2014). McGonigle et al. continues to discuss nursing informatics as using this science of technology to enhance patient care, outcomes, and…

According to information provided by Newsweek, there has been a decrease in not only one but several things. First off, although gun deaths have not come to an end, the country has seen a 59 percent decrease in gun homicides between the year 1995 and 2006. Also, Australia’s murder rate has decreased to one per 100,000, while the United States, thankfully better than before, is close to 4.5 per 100,000. Furthermore, gun homicides have decreased more than 65 percent too. However, the most stunning…

Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” James Holmes entered the movie theater and opened fire into a crowd of people watching the movie, killing 12 and injuring 70 pedestrians. Following that shooting, last year (2015), a similar shooting occurred in Lafayette, Louisiana. John Russell Houser (58-year-old) entered a showing of Judd Apatow’s “Trainwreck” on July 23 and shot his handgun, killing two people and injuring 7. Shortly after John Russell Houser took his own life before the police…

and the general public can all be reached instantaneously and with no hassle. Ideas can be spread in minutes. An article can be posted on a website like Facebook and have a million views in an hour. Dr. McDermott, a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette said, “Disseminating information to the public and to other professionals is such an important part of psychological research. I have a treatment for PTSD that is guaranteed to work. Getting this treatment out there and known…