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Essay Instructions: Please answer the following in questions/answers format

1.Identify an example of the use of the epidemiologic process in the newspaper this week. Discuss the various levels of prevention in this case.
2.Let's begin to discuss the differences and similarities when working with the community as the client instead of the individual. Describe the nursing process with the community as client.
3.Imagine that you are a public health nurse assigned to do lead poisoning prevention in an inner city neighborhood where some children have been found to have very high blood lead levels. On your first day on the job, you drive and/or walk through the neighborhood to see what it is like.
4.Discuss the signs will you look for while performing a Windshield Survey that will indicate there could be sources of lead in the area? What other information would be important to collect on the survey?
5.With whom will you try to speak to see if there is a perceived need for lead poisoning prevention? Rationale?
6.Discuss the sources of data you will access to assist in the assessment.
7. What criteria would you utilize before developing a plan of action to address this problem?
8. What resources or other team or community members would you enlist to assist with this problem? Rationale? How would you begin to develop coalitions in this community?
9.Discuss the nurse’s role in implementing change in this community regarding this problem of lead poisoning?

Essay Instructions: You are asked by the CEO of your hospital to contribute to the annual report. She wants you to write a five-page paper generally describing each of the ten departments in your hospital (Dermatology, Oncology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, and Neurology).
? Include the most common diseases seen in each department, using examples of patient cases from each department.
? Include the principal procedures and services that are relevant to each department.
? Highlight pertinent laboratory and radiological diagnostic services contributed to each of the ten departments.
? Identify the specialty teams in the respective departments and the services they offer.
Discuss all the details of this paper with your classmates (e.g. what would the most common procedures be in each department? What diseases would patients present with? How would they be worked up in the appropriate department? What diagnostic procedures would be necessary for a given case?, etc.). Once you have discussed the paper in detail with your colleagues, then write your contribution to the annual report.
You may use the following example to write the descriptions of the other departments.
The pediatric department attends to mostly ambulatory patients. Our most common cases are otitis media, immediately followed by various trauma cases mostly involving fractures, dislocations, and minor surgery. In the diagnosis of trauma cases we utilize our new CT scan facility, and we have recently added capacity to perform PET scans, which we use effectively to diagnose various early onset pediatric oncology cases such as osteoblastomas, and osteochondromas. A speciality group is being formed to diagnose and treat pediatric cardiology cases, specifically tetralogy of fallot. Recently, our pediatric department identified a chronic lead poisoning case that presented only with lead colic. It was quickly recognized by our physicians who utilized the laboratory staff, which ran a complete blood count and identified the stippled red blood cells, pathognomonic of lead poisoning

Essay Instructions: Topic needs to be pick from:

1: Deforestation of the Tropical Rainforest.
2: The Exxon-Valdez Disaster.
3: Animal Poaching and its Effects on the Ecological Balance.
4: The Effects of Acid Rain on the Environment.
5: Global Warming and its Efects on the Ecosystem.
6: Herbicide and or Insecticide Applications and Human Disease.
7: Zebra Mussel Impacts on U.S. Rivers.
8: The Environmental Impacts of War.
9: Lead Poisoning and Human Health and Asbestos Exposure and Human Health.

Paper should have Abstract 8-10 sentences synopsis outlining the focus of the paper, the importance of the problem and general findings and conclusions.

Body of the paper should have following headings listed below with relevant discussion.

- Historical Perspectives of the Problem
- The Impacts on and Responses of Humans or other living organisms to the Environmental Variation.
- Changes in the Ecosystem and Biosphere Structure.
- Ecosystem Dynamics Relative to Repair and Restoration.
- Economic Costs and Social Costs of the Ecological/Environmental Imapat.
- Prevention and Public Awareness Effort Aimed at the Problem.
- Conclusion

Essay Instructions: Prepare an extensive report on Sodium bicarbonate, its chemical, physical and biological properties. We are especially interested in any health effects as well.

This paper is not restricted by pages but more that an extensive report is completed. I just thought 3 pages would be enough, however, if it is not and we need more pages, please have the writer contact me and I will pay for additional pages if needed. There is no limit on the sources either, however, I thought 3 would be a good number to start with.

Try to use mostly websites as references so I can go and look at the information if possible.

Be sure to include a numbered list of references properly formatted. In the body of the report refer to those references used by their numbers in your reference list exercise. See below examples:

The references need to be in this format: With in-text citation of the number of the reference like below:

Example on in-text reference: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control find that "Chronic lead exposure in adults can damage the cardiovascular, central nervous, renal, reproductive, and hematologic systems."(2)
References

1. EPA. "Lead Poisoning" http://www.epa.gov/region02/health/leadpoisoning.htm (accessed 15Jan07)

2. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
"CHILDHOOD BLOOD LEAD SCREENING"
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NEWS/annistonreport.html (accessed 15Jan07)

3. CDC. "Lead Fact Sheet" http://www.cdc.gov/lead/ (accessed 15Jan07)

Thanks so much!