Essays on needle

Drug use by injection is the cause for approximately half of all new hepatitis C and one-third of all new AIDS cases in the United States each year. The implementation of clean Needle exchange programs has been encouraged by numerous health officials as a method of reducing the infection and transmission of these and other viruses which result from the sharing of contaminated syringes by injection drug users (IDU). ... The U.S. Public Health Service as well as many other social, governmental and...

The birds behaved weirdly, crashing into the window panes, breaking through and attacking people, leaving many dead and injured. This specie of the birds was generally quite nonaggressive in... There birds fed on small fish and bred on the shores. This behavior of the birds was unanticipated and instigated a wave of curiosity in the scientists and researchers. About two and a half decades later, in The Poisoning Needle In summer1961, flocks of birds swooped into the seaside Capitola, a town in California....

He was a French mathematician and naturalist who lived between 1707 and 1788. In 1777, he came up with Buffon Needle Problem, named after him to find out the probability... 1). The results show that this is related directly to pi, π. The simple case would be where the length of the Needle is taken as one unit. The assumption would be that the lines are parallel to the x-axis. Two variables exist in this scenario; the angle with which the Needle would be tilted to the lines, Ɵ, and the distance between...

In the paper 'Needle Stick Injuries' the author discusses a high risk of any disease transmitted to them from patients by different means especially through the Needle stick injuries. Although many preventive measures are taken yet the risk is quite high and there are still many cases reported.... The author states that during the past decade, a lot of efforts have been done to reduce this incidence. As a result, now there is much more awareness than ever before. Moreover, certain rules and regulations...

This study "Needle and Syringe Services Assessment" will be guided by the following questions: Why are Needle and Syringe Programmes necessary? Why are people who inject drugs provided with sterile needles and syringes? Are Needle and Syringe Programmes legal?... The prevention of new infections was estimated to be about 25,000 for HIV and 21,000 for hepatitis C. With the prevention is better than cure policy, the government saved approximately 2.4 to 7.7 billion dollars in treatment costs. This...

"Knowledge Management System: Needle in a Haystack" paper gives emphasis upon the personalization approach. According to this approach, the HRM team hires professional people i.e. those who are oriented towards problem-solving and can tolerate ambiguity.... So, any change required can be easily assessed with proper implementation by professional experts with a high solution to the unique problems. Learning from the failures provides a better opportunity to know the causes and the situations that...

The paper "Prison Based Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs in Australia" discusses that prisoners in Australia are at a higher risk of contracting bloodborne virus diseases. AIDS and Hepatitis C are wide spread in Australian Prisons as compared to the general population outside prisons.... The problem has been worsened by the practice of sharing syringes and needles as the prisoners are not allowed access to needles and syringes. The program is aimed at preventing new infections among the prisoners...

The paper "Whether or Not Needle Exchange Programs Are Effective" states that from a more domestic front, the war on drugs has been wholly and completely ineffective in helping to reduce overall dependence and negative societal impacts of drug usage.... Since their very inception a few decades ago, Needle exchange programs have been highly controversial. As a means of understanding why this level of controversy exists in the first place, the following analysis will discuss both the means by which...

This coursework describes legal and ethical issues regarding the clean Needle exchange program. This paper outlines utilitarianism, deontological, virtue ethics or feminine ethics and features of the clean Needle exchange program.... The primary users of the syringe and the clean Needle in a non-hospital setting become drug users who need to use the needles in order to inject themselves with illegal drugs. This brings some very interesting ethical questions into play and depending on the ethical...

In this writing, the author will analyze Clean Needle Exchange Program. The paper will concern the program, describe its pros and cons and look at different opinions about it including as positive arguments as negative and critical providing a discussion on the theme.... Clean Needle Exchange Programs (NEPs) require Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) to return a used syringe in order to receive a new, sterile Needle. NEPs in the U.S. began as a strict one-for-one exchange, with a limit on the number of...

A fiction work illuminates the unique Indian embroidery and perhaps culture (Kwon 46). It is a story that shows the hope of... It is a book that tells the unique account of a set of craftswomen who are determined to highlight the unique Indian embroidery to the rest of the world. They create top-notch needlework reminiscent of those made by their Book Review Through the Eye of a Needle Stories from Indian Desert is ed by Charlotte Kwon and published by Maiwa Handprints Limited (First Edition, 2003)....

The paper "Needle Stick Injuries - Concerns, Current Practices, Best Practices and Implementation of Change" deals with needlestick injuries as the commonly reported incident among healthcare workers, which are a potential source for transmission of various diseases like Hepatitis B and C and HIV.... During one of the ward procedures, one of my colleagues suffered a Needle stick injury because of improper disposing of the used Needle by another staff member. This incident made me think about Needle...

The paper "Needlestick Injuries among Support Staff in Hospitals" estimates the incidence of Needle stick injuries among support and ancillary staff in a national hospital and ascertains causes for the injuries, so that appropriate preventive measures can be developed.... Needlestick injuries are a common source of health hazards to health care workers like doctors, nurses, attendants, and technicians and also to non-health workers like ancillary and support staff (NHS, 2008). These injuries pose...

The study analyses similarities and differences between Needle biopsy and open surgical biopsy.... n the other hand, the process of removal of small samples of breast tissue through the insertion of the skin by use of a hollow core Needle is known as a core Needle biopsy.... Open surgical biopsies are more accurate while core –Needle biopsies are associated with lower incidences of morbidity and harms.... Women who are diagnosed with cancer by open biopsy undergo more treatment than those diagnosed by core-Needle biopsy....

Critically Evaluate Improving ‘Door To Needle' Times With Nurse Initiated Thrombolysis ... This critical study allows for an understanding of the utility of the nursing services in the area of reducing the door to Needle times in thrombolysis for patients presenting themselves with AMI and could be expanded to take in the issues related to the extended door to Needle times and the role of nurse initiated thrombolysis in the reducing door to Needle times....

It is the depth covered by the insertion of a standard Needle in the bituminous specimen under specific load, temperature and time conditions.... he method used for the experiment is the Needle penetration test.... arious apparatus are used to carry out the experiment such as; a flat bottom dish, penetration Needle holder, timing device, water bath maintained at 25.... The Needle is then cleaned before each test is carried out....

The paper "The Non-Metal vs Metal Fistula Needles Used in Haemodialysis" states that vascular accesses in dialysis are important and are cannulated regularly. When poorly carried out, cannulations can result in complications, particularly stenosis and aneurysm/pseudoaneurysm that affect access to life.... This paper provides a literature review of the nonmetal vs. metal fistula needles used in hemodialysis. In Australia, there is the introduction of cannulas, which are needless, unlike the conventional...

%) reported more injuries related to Needle stick than other job categories in KAMC-R, followed by physicians (18.... Record from the workers health nursing department and employees compensation also provided incidences of Needle stick injuries for the past three years.... The members of the team understood the incidence of Needle accidents, OSHA record keeping, and different incidence that demanded the use of a Needle.... The main aim of the team was to reduce cost related to Needle stick among workers within twelve months....

Needle and her four friends intend to set up.... Needle and her four friends intend to set up.... Needle and her four friends will be a partnership business.... Needle and her four friends have to understand fully how the partnership form of business works.... Needle and her four friends have to discuses and agree on the roles that each of the members will play in the business.... Needle and her four friends may not require any employee who is an indication that they will be required to carry out their business activities on their own....

The puzzle that is hunting the researchers is that how an unmedicated Needle, inserted at a site remote from its desired application can produce desired results.... The researchers argued that the acupuncture points are located at sites that have a high density of neurovascular structures and are generally between or at the edges of muscle groups and that these locations are actually less painful than random Needle sticks into a muscle groups (Helms 1996). ... The local and distal pain suppressing effects of acupuncture is dependent upon electrical stimulation of the acupuncture Needle....

A three-hour window from the time of the onset of acute myocardial infarction to the use of the Needle to initiate Thrombolysis is accepted delay for the technique to be effective.... In the first place there is the calculation on the basis of call to Needle time.... oor to Needle Times: ... The door to Needle times is the time that is taken from the time the patient reaches the hospital to the time it takes for the reperfusion treatment of acute myocardial infarction to be initiated....

Lisa Black, a registered nurse, was caring for a patient in the terminal stages of AIDS when she suffered a Needle stick injury.... She was in the process of irrigating intravenous (IV) infusion tubing that had become occluded with blood by inserting a Needle into a rubber port on the patient's IV line.... While attempting to aspirate the coagulating blood and then flush the IV line, the patient became startled and jerked, causing the Needle to dislodge from the rubber port of the IV line....

he quickest method of doing that is through Needle decompression.... The procedure involves putting in a big bore Needle within the second intercostal gap, at the line of midclavicular.... The most favourable Needle to utilise in treating tension pneumothorax with grown up patients is the 3.... 5 inch 14 gauge (or bigger diameter) Needle (Gilmore, 2013).... At the moment of putting in the Needle, it requires being put in at an angle of 90 to the wall of the chest....

The local and distal pain suppressing effects of acupuncture is dependent upon electrical stimulation of the acupuncture Needle.... Acupuncture Needle manipulation gives rise to a bio-mechanical phenomenon which is characterized by an increase in the force necessary to pull the Needle out of the tissue when compared to the force necessary to instill the Needle.... This is known as Needle grasp.... Langevin and colleagues investigated whether this Needle grasp was due to winding of connective tissue or due to contraction of muscle....

In this lab, bitumen material was used to evaluate the value of the penetration of the Needle alongside the softening temperature and the Index.... For the Needle penetration, a test was conducted thrice under standard time, temperature, and load conditions.... This lab report "Engineering and Construction of Bitumen" focuses on the tests that were performed with a view to determining the softening point of a sample of bitumen and (2) determining the penetration value of three samples of the penetration grade bitumen....

The procedure that is performed next is referred to as fine Needle aspiration biopsy.... As the name suggests, fine Needle biopsy is usually performed using a Needle to withdraw the contents within the cyst.... Fine Needle aspiration biopsy has been studied to be more accurate and very fast (Cantisani et al, 2012).... The use of ultrasound sonography in combination with fine Needle aspiration biopsy is effective but the process is long and tiresome. ...

These problems were related to the stationary phase coating of the SPME fibre being unprotected and more fragile, when through the Needle.... Its novelty lies in that SPDE employs a stainless steel Needle with a hollow interior coated with a certain stationary phase to allow specific and maximum analyte recovery.... The Needle is fitted inside an airtight syringe.... SPDE is also innovative in that the analyte is concentrated onto the stationary phase by forcing the headspace through the Needle, upon moving the syringe plunger up and down repeatedly....

CSR can be defined as the sense of responsibility of any organisation towards the social as well as ecological environment and community in which it operates (Needle, 2004).... CSR policies mainly follow a self-regulatory procedure which enables any business to ensure whether their activities are in compliance with laws, regulations, international norms and ethical standards (Needle, 2004).... Apart from the employees, consumers, suppliers and government authorities, the stakeholder of any organisation also includes the society and environment in which they are operating (Needle, 2004)....

At face value it appears that Methadone Clinics and Needle Exchange programs are condoning or endorsing continuous drug use.... At face value it appears that Methadone Clinics and Needle Exchange programs are condoning or endorsing continuous drug use.... Needle Exchange Programs are definitely controversial, but their purpose is less about the helping the addicts instead helping innocent citizens.... Needle Exchange Programs do give clean needles to drug addicts, but they also make certain that old needles are properly disposed of and eliminating the likelihood that these addicts will spread contagious and lethal diseases (American Foundation for AIDS Research, 2012)....

The activation time, which was long, could be reduced by increasing the Needle diameter; only one cap could be used to avoid user confusion.... It has a lower protective cap that ensures the Needle tip is shielded by injection and Upper protective cap that play an important role in ensuring no accidentally firing.... It also has the Firing button that when pressed the Needle is inserted automatically, and the drug is delivered.... This is made possible by changing the Needle diameter....

For example radiation in an x-ray room, Needle stick injuries in a laboratory or flebotomy room, eye splashes in a dental room or delivery room.... For example, the use of post-exposure prophylaxis in case of splashes and Needle stick injuries.... The same applies to Needle stick injuries in the laboratory and the flebotomy rooms (Chalupka et al 2008: 4).... These include provision of training to the hospital staff about safety and response to hazards, vaccination of staff to prevent injury related illnesses such as hepatitis, safe working practices such as wearing of gloves when handling hazardous materials or patients and proper handling and disposal of sharps in sharp containers to prevent Needle stick injuries....

Dommerholt introduces dry needling as a technique used by physical therapists to treat myofascial pain in which a dry Needle is inserted into a trigger point to inactivate it and relieve pain.... Dommerholt introduces dry needling as a technique used by physical therapists to treat myofacial pain in which a dry Needle is inserted into a trigger point to inactivate it and relieve pain....

Evidence and literature touts this technique as practice that is why when I administered the intramuscular injection to the diabetic patient, I used one Needle to draw the injectable and another one to administer it.... (2011) study was specific to the intravitreal injection technique, separate studies concur that a 30 or 31 gauge Needle is appropriate for intramuscular injection.... I was aware during the IM procedure that the correct Needle caliber to use was a 30 or 31 gauge....

AMERICAN Needle, INC .... American Needle, Inc was one of the licensees.... Thereafter, it refused to refurbish license of American Needle (Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.... ISSUE: American Needle filed a suit in a federal district court claiming that the contract involving the NFL, the NFLP, its teams and Reebok infringed Sections 1 and 2 articulated in Sherman Act.... ANALYSIS: American Needle appealed against the court's verdict to The US Court of Appeals....

This paper is about exploring, observing, analyzing and understand the behavior of different materials in interaction with magnets as well as the phenomena associated with magnets and the uses of these phenomena.... There are 10 experiments and simulations which were conducted to.... ... ... Magnetic shielding is the process used to reduce the magnetic field in space through usage of blocks of highly permeable magnetic materials....

The man is trying to insert a Needle into a thread-hole.... The man is trying to insert a Needle into a thread-hole.... His whole concentration is focused at inserting the Needle into the thread-hole.... he themes that reflect from the details of the picture include patience, concentration, and focus since the tailor is inserting the Needle in the thread-hole irrespective of what is happening in his surroundings.... He hardly knows that his cat might be about to step upon a Needle into the open box....

The practitioner should use a cotton ball to withdraw the Needle to avoid pricking themselves and contracting bloodborne pathogens.... According to the safety council guidelines, it is important to use varying Needle sizes in different body parts to avoid such infections. ... It means that the equipment is safe from germs in a sealed package and after use, the Needle cannot be in use again and safe disposal is necessary.... The council gives guidelines for disposal of needles and bans use of a single Needle between patients....

‘A Needle Woman' portrays a perfect example of her motion-photographic work.... A Needle is perceived as an instrument that brings pain when it encounters the body and skin through piercing.... However, the Needle is also used as a symbol of continuity.... The fabric, the Needle and the thread can all be used symbolically to depict the day-to-day occurrence in a meaningful way.... A Needle woman is the one who enjoins the other people in this motion picture....

resently in Australia, the chief program on harm reduction is the Needle and syringe program (NSP).... The programs of Needle exchange have been established to be cost-effective.... ccording to Roe (2005), the public feel the Needle exchange program has not resulted into drug use increase.... In contrast, programs of Needle exchange have decreased rates of sharing needles among people and have associated several users of drug with health services....

The challenge for managers however, is identifying the organisation stakeholders in the first place and balancing their different needs and interests so as to satisfy them all (Needle, 2010, 303).... For example, shareholders want returns on their investments, employees want good terms and working conditions such as fair pay, customers want quality goods and services at reasonable prices and the government wants compliance with laws (Needle, 2010, 302).... An example is Wal-mart's tendency to bankrupt small companies with its low pricing strategies (Needle, 2010)....

This work called "The Best Design for Intravenous Needleless Connectors" describes how to prevent bloodstream infections with the help of needless connectors. The author outlines the feasibility steps to implementing the identified changes, using effective guidance to select devices. ... Nevertheless, due to concerns about the impact of needles, numerous recommendations have been made on the suitability of needless intravenous connectors where research has confirmed that they have the ability to...

The biopsy is carried out through percutaneous fine Needle aspiration, percutaneous core Needle biopsy, or excisional biopsy (Virtual Medical Centre, 2005).... Fine Needle aspiration draws out sample cells from the mass; for the core Needle biopsy, a larger Needle is used to extract sample cells from the mass; for excisional biopsy, surgery is involved with the radiologist and surgeon participating in the process (Virtual Medical Centre, 2005)....

This dissertation "Is Acupuncture an Effective Treatment for Insomnia" conducts a review of the literature and assesses whether acupuncture is an effective treatment for insomnia.... Insomnia is a common, persistent disorder that is oftentimes not recognized or cured.... .... ... ... Insomnia has direct control over a person's work and life....

There are three kinds of biopsies such as bone marrow biopsy, endoscopic biopsy and Needle biopsy.... During this procedure the doctor draws a sample of a bone marrow out of the back of your hip bone using a long Needle.... Finally, Needle biopsy involves using a Needle to extract cells emerging from a suspicious area (Colditz and Hunter, 2000).... Examples of Needle biopsy include core Needle biopsy, fine-Needle biopsy, vacuum-assisted biopsy and image guided biopsy....

This reduces the threat to the legitimacy theory (Needle, 2010).... The strategic approach focuses on the strategic manipulation of symbols via communication behavior so as to achieve legitimacy (Needle, 2010).... This assists them in earning legitimacy on their behavior from the community (Needle, 2010). ... This prompts a further effort to change the stakeholder's expectation in regards to the firm's performance (Needle, 2010)....

Developing countries or rather poor countries therefore have the largest incidences of the HIV/AIDS due to injection Needle insertions causing further complications.... There are many initiatives including Needle exchange programs as well as harm reduction strategies that are in practice since last many years. ... This forum basically service as a discussion point for the Needle exchange services however it aims to not only identify the best practices but it also aims to raise the awareness as well as knowledge about the role of Needle exchange....

Lucien Vidie found that changes in the width of the capsule can be transferred to a Needle in a graduated disc through a number of levers.... The movements of the Needle in the dial, as the capsule contracts and expands are very small, therefore, the chains, linkages, and levers that magnify the change and direct them to the Needle on the dial should be accurately machined....

All of them were caused on account of the Needle-stick injury or cuts from contaminated glass.... As per reports by Collins and Kennedy, in the Journal of Applied Bacteriology in 1987, there were 22 different kinds of infectious cases reported on account of the injuries being caused from Needle-stick and sharps.... But, it was also noticed that the safety measures in case of performing venipuncture and other process had not reduced the risk of injuries from Needle-sticks or danger of risk to health care workers from blood borne pathogens....

A phlebotomist should not insert a Needle above an intravenous infusion.... Phlebotomists should release the tourniquet and remove the Needle, immediately they discover the venipuncture has began swelling during the venipuncture process (Kalanick, 2004).... When this occurs, a phlebotomist needs to change the position of the Needle by rotating it half a turn.... A failed venipuncture may result when the bevel of the Needle is against the wall of the vein, indicating that the Needle has not penetrated the vein far enough (Hoeltke, 2013)....

It was a significant challenge to the health sector until health unions stepped in to try to address the issue by urging nurses to make Needle containers and avoid recapping of needles.... The only step Becton Dickinson opted to perform was to place a warning on Needle boxes. ... Becton Dickinson purchased a license from Mitchell and Sampson to make the same kind of Needle.... Becton Dickinson company made protective Needle for 3-cc that was rarely used by nurses....