Pregnancy
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Pregnant women should have above average intake of Vitamin D during gestation, which will contribute to positive immune effects. Ironically, though, 40-80% of pregnant women have some sort of a Vitamin D deficiency. This data is alarming since it shows that this deficiency also may contribute to modifying factors of risks of a number of chronic diseases.

¶ … Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the eponymous novel by Alice Walker, recounts the tale of Celie Harris and the obstacles she had to overcome in order to achieve the freedom she longed for and…

Statistical analysis can lead to many different errors of many different types, both in the gathering of data and the manipulation of it to produce results in a practical and relevant manner.

Postpartum depression is a serious problem among women. Once thought of as a relatively minor phase within the postpartum cycle, it is now known that it can seriously impair the individual woman's ability to function…

¶ … tenet of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics states, "the nurse provides services with respect for human dignity and the uniqueness of the client, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic…

Heroin, like all drugs, knows no social, ethnic, or economic barriers. Although most people think of a heroin addict as some 'junkie' shooting up in an urban back alley, he or she is just as likely to be a corporate CEO…

The Arnold Palmer Hospital (AHC) located in Orlando, Florida is considered one of the most efficient and patient-centric healthcare providers in the U.S. due to the customer satisfaction scores the facility receives and amount of patients the hospital sees on an annual basis. The AHC has been ranked fifth in patient satisfaction out of 5,000 hospitals and sees on average 1.5 million children and women annually. It is the fourth-busiest labor and delivery hospital in the U.S. and the largest neonatal intensive care unit in the entire Southeastern U.S. AHC has also put into place one of the most thorough and well-respected continuous improvement processes in the U.S. healthcare system. With the goal of 100% patient satisfaction, AHC has created an entire quality management and improvement organization which is now a critical part of its culture. Of the myriad of processes that AHC relies on to operate daily, one of the more problematic is the Labor & Delivery Check-In. This process is made more challenging by the continually changing status of the patient and her imminent delivery of a baby. Healthcare processes need to be contextually relevant and have comparable time and value durations as patients in order to contribute to patient satisfaction (Ahsan, Shah, Kingston, 2010). The AHC labor and delivery check-in process is one that is very complex with ample room for patient dissatisfaction given the highly intricate nature of eight different decision points. With so much complexity there is the potential for confusion in the Labor and Delivery check-in process and frustration on the part of patients. Clearly this process needs significant improvement as the initial analysis of the workflow is shown in the first part of this analysis. Following the initial analysis of the Labor and Delivery check-in workflow, the complication of dealing with a Caesarean-section birth is discussed. Third, if mothers were electronically checked in versus the manual process today, the workflows would change significantly. A second flowchart has been created to show the streamlined workflow as a result of the AHC choosing this alternative. For process re-engineering to be successful there needs to be a prioritization of customer-based goals first, followed by the selective use of technologies (Bertolini, Bevilacqua, Ciarapica, Giacchetta, 2011). The use of more automated means to check maternity patients in follows this best practices of business process reengineering (Bertolini, Bevilacqua, Ciarapica, Giacchetta, 2011).

This paper focuses on the provision of healthcare to a pregnant lesbian. It discusses a specific case of a lesbian, named Leslie, and her partner, Debbie, as they anticipate the birth of their first child. It follows a Gibbs Model, looking at 1)the description of the incident; 2) feelings; 3) the good and bad aspects of the incident; 4) analysis of the scenario; 5) conclusion; and 6) the action plan.

Female Genital Mutilation -- a Review and Analysis

This paper discusses four short stories of Ernest Hemingway. He wrote what is called naturalistic stories wherein there is little narrator involvement. Instead, the stories are told largely in dialogue and the reader has to look between the lines in order to understand what is really going on in the stories of Hemingway.