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    aspect of public health nursing is a focus on vulnerable populations. Vulnerable populations include individuals at high risk for health disparities. Vulnerability results from limited physical, environmental, personal, and biopsychosocial resources (Stanhope, 2016). Homeless individuals are considered a vulnerable population. They are often a victim of disenfranchisement, which is a feeling of separation from society. Often, they feel “invisible” (2016). Homelessness can be defined broadly as an individual

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    having a child. Later, Jenna had gone missing and Alice finds out that Nievve had killed her and wanted Alice to feel that pain of losing a daughter. Later, Jenna hires a private detective (Virgil Stanhope) to find her mom but instead, that detective was the one who handled her mom’s case. Detective Stanhope had committed suicide because he didn’t believe Alice had a fair case while the government had been hiding the truth. Serenity Jones was actually a soul guide all this time but Jenna was the connection

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    of the women whom influenced in medical care of the wounded during the war. Aside from establishing the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), Mary Breckenridge moved to the rural areas following her passion to care for disadvantaged women and children (Stanhope and Lancaster,

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    Epidemiology Paper Mental Health Disease Robin Cameron NUR/408 Janruary 16, 2011 Nancyruth Leibold Mental Health Disease According to Perry, Presley-Cantrell, and Dhingra (2010) “Mental illness is term health conditions that are characterized by alteration in thinking, mood, or behavior or perhaps a combination that is associated with distress and/or impaired functioning” (p. 2333). Mental health has become an increase concern in the vulnerable elderly population across the nation. Two of

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    Compare the ways in which R.C Sherriff and Sebastian Barry present relationships in war in Journey’s End and A Long Long Way. Through a play and a novel separated by seventy-six years, R.C Sherriff and Sebastian Barry have produced pieces that show how war created new relationships, destroyed old ones and introduced unique tensions between men and women that may not have existed otherwise. Both A Long Long Way and Journey’s End highlight how it was difficult for the soldiers to maintain solid relationships

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    using first-person narration. Therefore, I find that Barry’s novel is better at covering a variety of relationships, while Sherriff’s play presents a more focussed account of trench life and can recreate the detachment from women for the audience. Stanhope, a captain ashamed of his alcoholism and mental state, has added to this separation between couples by refusing to take leave to see his girlfriend Madge and, as Raleigh points out, ‘he doesn’t say much in his letters,’ perhaps to protect her from

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    A Comparison in the Presentation of the ‘Horrors of War’ in Birdsong and A Journey’s End In Journey’s End there are a lot of references to the shear numbers of people killed on the battlefield. Quotes such as “One thousand eight hundred companies in France” use figures to stress just how epic the war really was, the reader has to be reminded of how vast the war was as most of the readers would not have experienced it for themselves. Journey’s End makes the mass death seem

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    genders and educational groups. An excerpt from Stanhope & Lancaster’s book states that, “[i]n the United States, approximately 57.7 million adults (ages 18 and older), or 26.2% of the population, suffer from a mental disorder in a given year and 6% of the population suffer from a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia; [and] nearly half of those with any mental disorder meet the criteria for two disorders (Kessler et al, 2005; NIMH,2010),” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, p785). They also write that

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    Friedman Family Assessment The Friedman Family Assessment is a tool used to assess the “family as a whole, as part of the whole of society, and as an interaction system” (Lancaster & Stanhope, 2008, p. 569). The Friedman Family Assessment has certain assumptions for the families that are assessed with this tool. These assumptions include the families are “a social system with functional requirements, a small group possessing certain generic features common to all small groups, as a social system

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    group of people who work together with one another and whose common interests create the foundation for a feeling of unity (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). Serving the community as a nurse is no different from serving an individual. For example, community health attempts to emphasize the promotion and preservation of wellness and the prevention of illness or disability (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). According to the American Nursing Association, nursing is the promotion, protection, and development of

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