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Legal Issues Case Study For Nursing
Number of Words: 1169 / Number of Pages: 5
... thirty minutes. Miss Hand's charting was
brief, almost illegible, and read, "Medicines given as prescribed. Cindy
observed without positive results. Physician notified."
The physician examined the child; notes read that the child had "minimal
clearing" in response to the bronchodilator. The following medications were
then prescribed: Elixir of turpenhydrate with codeine one milliliter by mouth,
Gantrinsin (sulfisoxazole) 10
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milliliters, and Quibron (theophylline-glycerol guaiacolate) 10 milliliters.
Nurse Slighta Hand, RN charted the medications were given as prescribed. ...
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Is Drug Testing The Answer?
Number of Words: 1160 / Number of Pages: 5
... form of substance abuse. Substance abuse can
take humans to that alternate reality they seek. Different drugs have different
effects on the mind and body. The reason for the effect is the same no matter
what drug is used. This reason is to escape reality.
Addiction follows this escape from reality. Once addiction comes into
play, it is no longer a matter of escaping. People addicted to drugs, such as
cocaine, need the drug in order to function. Without the drug they fiend for,
basic human functions cannot even be performed. Imagine not even being able to
get out of bed and use the restroom wit ...
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Gun Control In The United States
Number of Words: 704 / Number of Pages: 3
... amendment you have left these people angry, and with no way out. They will fight. Are the gun control advocates ready to take responsibility for the hundreds if not thousands of deaths that will occur? Since the law enforcement agencies already admit to thier lack of ability to diarm these people, are they going to order in federal troops? It is a question that people need take into consideration when they start their Crusade against the evils of firearms.
Lets talk about a total gun ban. If that indeed came true, would the American society be safer? Truth is no. Besides the scary thought that only ...
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Case For Legalizing Marijuana
Number of Words: 2680 / Number of Pages: 10
... identical to those observed after ingestion
of potent hallucinogens such as LSD. Some who smoke marijuana feel no
effects; others feel relaxed and sociable, tend to laugh a great deal, and
have a profound loss of the sense of time. Characteristically, those under
the influence of marijuana show incoordination and impaired ability to
perform skilled acts. Still others experience a wide range of emotions
including feelings of perception, fear, insanity, happiness, love and
anger. Although marijuana is not addicting, it may be habituating. The
individual may become psychologically rather than phy ...
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Censorship In The United States
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... >subjugate and suppress the freedoms that we have to express ourselves as >backed by the Bill of Rights. They edit radio broadcasts, place “black-bars” over televised images, and even try to refine works of literature so that they meet certain “standards.” As US citizens, we should be appalled that such practices are allowed. Not only are we deprived of rights, be we are denied wants. If I want to go home and turn on my TV to see a woman sans clothes and hear frequent vulgarities, then by all means I as a citizen of this free country should be allowed. The majority of us want to view things dee ...
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Death Penalty And The Eighth Amendment
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, hanging, and
firing squad, each of them equally cruel and unusual in there own ways.
When a person is sentenced to death by electrocution he strapped to a
chair and electrodes are attached to his head and leg. The amount of voltage is
raised and lowered a few times and death is supposed to occur within three
minutes. Three whole minutes with electricity flowing through someone's body,
while his flesh burns. Three minutes may not seem like a very long time, but to
someone who is waiting for his body to die, three minutes can feel like an
eternity.
Three m ...
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Hallucinogen
Number of Words: 915 / Number of Pages: 4
... (THC), obtained from
the amber-colored resin of the flowering tops and leaves of the plant. Hashish
is also made from this resin.
Of all drugs, synthetic and natural, the most powerful is LSD, or lysergic
acid diethylamide. Twenty micrograms, an almost infinitesimal amount, is
sufficient to produce a hallucinogenic effect; just 3 pounds (1.4 kilograms)
could induce a reaction in all the inhabitants of New York City and London. This
extraordinary potency makes LSD especially dangerous since it is usually
impossible to determine how much is contained in doses offered by drug dealers.
LSD is che ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 1338 / Number of Pages: 5
... a woman if she
unmarried sex and had "wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her
father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21) England recognized seven major crimes that
called for execution by the end of the 15th century. These crimes were: murder,
theft (by deceitfully taking someone goods), burglary, rape, and arson. As
time went by more and more crimes were believed to deserve the death penalty and
by 1800 more than 200 crimes were recognized as punishable by death. (Bedau2)
It was not long before capital punishment met opposition. The Quakers made
first movement against execution. They suppo ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 219 / Number of Pages: 1
... officers looking for pot, we could concentrate drug
education in schools on the more grievously damaging drugs (heroin,
cocaine, LSD).
The only long term effects marijuana has on a person are the same as with
cigarettes. No one would dare prohibit the sale and possession of those,
and pot isn't treated with an array of chemicals. It's just picked, dried,
and smoked. Marijuana has similar short term effects as those of beer,
but more relaxing. Marijuana tends to mellow a person, while alcohol
might make someone violent. Plus alcohol contrivutes to brain and liver
damage.
I can not say that I ...
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Teen Violence And Its Causes
Number of Words: 1687 / Number of Pages: 7
... become.
As the years go by, we see a higher and higher divorce rate. As
this rate goes up, so does the crime rate. Couples today have forgotten
the word commitment. As a result of this, the children suffer. It is hard
to grow up with separated parents. Most children become bitter or angry as
they grow because of their divorced parents. In some cases the parents
fight or argue which can affect a child, and may adapt the child to be more
aggressive. Also, when raising a child in a divorced atmosphere, what kind
of lesson is he/she learning? They will learn that a commitment is not a
serious thi ...
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