… chose this profession because I like to communicate with people, and I also like to help people. I am also a very sociable person. I would enjoy this career because each day would be interesting and this type of job would keep me upbeat.…

… yourself with equipment needed for patient handling The need for manual handling should be avoided where reasonably practicable, and the risk reduced when manual handling cannot be avoided. In general, manual handling should be minimised to…

… doctors and dermatologists from leading institutions all over the world have been claiming for years. Piles of research have linked the cause of skin cancer with exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Both the sun and tanning beds or sunlamps emit…

… what palliative care is. I will discuss the modern hospice and the history of care provided in early hospices. Secondly I shall review the care that people with incurable diseases receive. In order to do this, I will gather evidence from course material…

… depending on body size. Your resting heart rate and breathing rate... is your resting heart and breathing rate, about 70 beats/min. At rest most of this blood is in the veins throughout your body, not within your arteries or within your lungs. This…

… Health Priority Areas. The Australian Health Ministers endorsed injury Prevention and Control as a National Priority Area in 1986 in recognition of the national burden of injury. Injuries result in an estimated 8,000, or 6% of deaths each year in…

… chiropractic doctors. Indeed, pain is the chief complaint of at least eighty percent of first-time chiropractic patients. It may be a headache, backache, shoulder ache, or an ache or pain involving any of the body's nerves, muscles, ligaments, tendons,…

… concept. Basically, our brains' are designed to tune into change in the environment. Thus, we tend to tune out, or not pay special attention to predictable and unchanging stimuli. This is habituation. For example, the first time you sense something,…

… in the context of dying. It will identify the emotions which people experience when living with uncertainty and look at the reasons why dying people and their carers find this difficult. The term carers will be defined and the carers' position…

… Nightingale once said, "You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all be distilled into actions and into actions that bring results" (Woodham-Smith, 1951). I find this quote to be…