A Career in Maternity Nursing: Essay

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Words 689

Humans have nursed each other since the beginning of the species. In fact, indeed attempts to care for other individuals to help reduce their pain and increase their overall health are seen in a wide range of primates:  Nursing is arguably something that is encoded in our very genes. However, modern nursing can realistically trace its roots only to the 19th century, which is where this paper begins. (more…)

Nursing Essay

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Words 1,272

Summary: 4 pages, 5 sources, APA format.  The popularity of the Nursing profession is declining at a dangerous rate, due in part to inadequate pay, overwork and high-stress levels leading current RNs to leave the field in search of work elsewhere:  a discussion of the problem and some possible solutions. (more…)

Why People Shouldn’t Smoke: Essay

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Words 2,020

There have been anti-smoking campaigns since the 1960s, and today the ads and commercials on TV are aimed more towards the youth culture—those who’ve not started smoking yet and might be around it—while commercials to stop the addiction to nicotine through patches and gums are geared towards the adults who’ve already become addicted. Not smoking is a very big issue as we can see from the proliferation of ads and commercials as well as the governmental involvement with tax-hikes on cigarettes to discourage smokers and the declaration of public places such as restaurants and shopping malls as smoke-free. There has been a stigma attached to those people who do smoke as can be witnessed by their division from the rest of the public into smoker areas. Everyone from the government to hospitals to movie stars, friends, and family claim smoking is a filthy habit one shouldn’t start in on, and everyone gives very good reasons why someone shouldn’t smoke, and I agree. The biggest reasons not to smoke concerns your health, the health of the people around you, the financial burden of buying cigarettes, cigars, and pipes and tobacco, and the health and beauty of the environment. (more…)

Shortage of Vaccinations Essay

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Words 2,194

Analysis

All that seems to matter to the pharmaceutical industry is that their profit margin continues to rise each and every year.  The monopoly greatly affects our nation’s health because of a company’s ability to control certain immunizations from reaching the marketplace due to any number of reasons—without more competitors for the same kinds of vaccinations available the public relies heavily on those twelve companies that supply our nation with protection against diseases and ailments of all kinds (CBS, “Vaccine,” n.p.). (more…)

Fitness Training Paper

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Word length approx: 2440 words

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Every individual needs to take care of his or her health. Exercising and eating well are the two most common ways of keeping fit and healthy. There are lots of people who go for physical and fitness training to ensure that they are always in good health. Health consists of keeping a check on various things such as your weight, the amount you eat and the kind of food you eat, your strength and your endurance according to your age and gender. These are only some of the things which are kept in mind when considering how healthy a person is. (more…)