The surgical list was of oncology patients having breast surgeries. The particular case in question was of a middle-aged patient undergoing a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. ... The aims in this discussion are to look at Patient Safety First (2011) quote stating that, 'with NHS change, focus is to be maintained on delivery of safer, better care to the patient.' ... However, Scott, Beswick & Wakefield (2004) have noted that there are no published occupational health guidelines or recorded instances of ill health yet directly attributed to the inhalation of surgical smoke in th...

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Motivation of the patient seems to be the most important factor, although this is difficult to measure. ... Introduction Tobacco smoking causes about 13,000 deaths in Scotland each year, making smoking the single most preventable cause of premature mortality and ill health . ... If a patient has the motivation to stop then help should be given. ... If a patient does not have this motivation then interventions however effective they have been proven will not work. ... Having an understanding of where a patient is in the cycle can help direct the resources effectively. ...

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About 90% of the children attending an ED will be seen and discharged without involvement of any in-patient team (RCN 2010). ... Lyon (2002) states that harm is defined by Section 31 of the Children Act 1989 as meaning "ill treatment or the impairment of health or development." ...

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Part 1 Explain and illustrate the broad nature of the post-war welfare settlements and their reconstruction in the 1980s and 1990s. The post-war welfare state was a social construction that resulted from the complex, contested and fragile set of arrangements called "settlements" - the political, economic, social and organisational settlements. Therefore it never was the homogeneous or unified entity that it is often regarded as. Keynes" demand management theory, as a solution to unemployment, advised the government to intervene in the economy by increasing government expenditure in or...

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