“The Role and Function of the Clinical Nurse Specialist”
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An eight page paper which looks at the role and function of the Clinical Nurse Specialist, in terms of clinical specialisation, leadership within the parameters of the health-care organisational model, and the ways in which the CNS’s role is changing with regard to other positions in the field of advanced nursing practice. Bibliography lists 7 sources
Filename: JLclinnurse.wps
Paper Title: “The Role and Function of the Clinical Nurse Specialist”

“Training Police Officers in Techniques of Dealing With Mentally Ill Suspects Within the Community”
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A five page paper which looks at the problems faced by police officers in dealing with mentally ill suspects, and the ways in which training programmes designed to redress the problem might be managed and assessed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: JLpolicementill.wps
Paper Title: “Training Police Officers in Techniques of Dealing With Mentally Ill Suspects Within the Community”

“Wake Up America: A National Sleep Alert”
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A 5 page reaction paper to the report “Wake Up America: A National Sleep Alert” by the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Filename: RAsleep9.rtf
Paper Title: “Wake Up America: A National Sleep Alert”

"Cordless Cautions": A Review of an Article Discussing Cordless Power Tool Safety Issues
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A 3 page overview of the November 2001 Tech Directions article titled "Cordless Cautions". In it authors Peter Domeny and Jennifer Uzumcu review the precautions which are necessary to safely and most effectively use cordless power tools. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPtoolPw.rtf
Paper Title: "Cordless Cautions": A Review of an Article Discussing Cordless Power Tool Safety Issues

"Deaf Like Me"
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A 5 page book report of "Deaf Like Me" by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAsprady.wps
Paper Title: "Deaf Like Me"

"Nurses' willingness to care for AIDS patients and spirituality, social support, and death anxiety": A review of the article by Deborah Witt Sherman
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A 14 page analysis of the research strategies enlisted in this study, strategies designed to investigate the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The author of this paper delineates the research design and methodology of the study, outlines its statistical approaches, and comments on its findings. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PPnrsWll.rtf
Paper Title: "Nurses' willingness to care for AIDS patients and spirituality, social support, and death anxiety": A review of the article by Deborah Witt Sherman

"Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement"
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A 5 page review of a 2001 article by Gary Pisano (Harvard Business School) detailing the changes made at a Massachusetts hospital that allowed the simultaneous reduction of costs for caring for cardiac patients, the reduction of resource utilization and patient length of stay, and improved patient outcome. The author details the process the organization went through and concludes that although several problems still remained, the processes that had been put in place to resolve costs and patient outcome in the restrictions levied by capitated insurance contracts could be expected to be successfully utilized to overcome those problems as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPmedEf2.rtf
Paper Title: "Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement"

"People-Seeds": An Analogy In the Abortion Argument
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A 6 page discussion of the concept of "person-seeds", a concept introduced by author Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971. This paper outlines Thomson's analogy and uses it to delve deeper into the issue of the rights and wrongs of abortion. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: "People-Seeds": An Analogy In the Abortion Argument

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response
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3 pages in length. Yu et al (2002) illustrate the prevalence of smoking within the Chinese American population, with a substantially greater number of men than women engaging in the addictive habit. The authors - who studied myriad aspects inherent to the incidence of smokers among Chinese American populations by utilizing Chicago's Chinatown as a viable representation - employed qualitative methodology via a questionnaire formulated in part by the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Six hundred forty-four respondents between the ages of forty and sixty-nine were queried for their input. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCSmokChin.rtf
Paper Title: "Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadinman
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A 5 page paper which examines the professional behavior of nurses and other medical professionals as seen in Anne Fadinman's book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." The paper also presents an overall examination of this book as it relates to the clash of two perspectives, the American medical profession and the Hmong people. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAfldown.rtf
Paper Title: "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadinman