I am a very powerful wizard, the most powerful one of the century. Well, at least I was when I was eight years old. But trust me, boy was I powerful! I conjured spells, articulated curses, and whizzed around the neighborhood on a magic broomstick. I did it all with a smile too, the type […]

Blackness surrounds me, I am losing breathe… Fast-forward to the beginning of the day. I was only five-years-old but I was ambitious. My family and I were on vacation and our destination had been a waterpark. Before our trip, I learned how to swim at a Drury Inn hotel, so I was ready for anything. […]

Most people find the hospital a cold, strange, and miserable building that smells of sanitizing materials and latex gloves. I see it as an educational gateway into medicine. When doing our internship with the high school health science course, we worked in the hospital with people from several different departments. When with one of the […]

Tolearn to think is to learn to question. Those who don’t question never trulythink for themselves. These are simple rules that have governed the advancementof science and human thought since the beginning of time. Advancements are madewhen thinkers question theories and introduce new ones. Unfortunately, it isoften the great and respected thinkers who end up […]

Throughout a person’s life they may encounter many hardships ranging from a drug addiction, the loss of a family member, or even something as simple as making a decision between a soup or salad before dinner. No matter the severity of the struggle or how it affects us, we all have the same choice as […]

1) In the current tax year, Gunther earned $125,000 from his job as a civil engineer. In addition, he received $30,000 of income from Activity A, and lost $40,000, and 20,000 from Activities B and C respectively. Activities A, B, and C are passive activities that Gunther acquired in the current year. What amount of […]

  Case Study, Chapter 13, Fluid and Electrolytes: Balance and Disturbance 1. Mrs. Dean is 75-year-old woman admitted to the hospital for a small bowel obstruction. Her medical history includes hypertension. Mrs. Dean is NPO. She has a nasogastric (NG) tube to low continuous suction. She has an IV of 0.9% NS at 83 mL/hr. […]

Now is the time to pause, and review your accomplishments: Was it only seven weeks ago that you began this journey through the expansive and intricate worlds of developing children? Before you go any further: Review your completed Child Development Chart, and give yourself credit for creating such a rich and informative reference tool. Consider […]

   Assignment: Adaptive Response As an advanced practice nurse, you will examine patients presenting with a variety of disorders. You must, therefore, understand how the body normally functions so that you can identify when it is reacting to changes. Often, when changes occur in body systems, the body reacts with compensatory mechanisms. These compensatory mechanisms, […]

   Competency Evaluate the impact of professionalism on children, families, and community. Scenario Information You are a mentor teacher at All Kids Childcare and Education. Part of your job is to ensure that teachers work well together. Recently, you heard from a teacher that co-teachers Julie and Kimberly were not speaking to each other. You […]