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January 11, 2025

Detailed Description of a Typical Pre-Veterinary Program (and what to do with your major)

The pre-veterinary major is a degree program that prepares students for advanced, graduate level training to become doctors of veterinary medicine (DVMs). While students who have set themselves the professional goal of becoming veterinarians could choose to major in any  →

What Makes Someone Want to Become a Hospice Nurse? A Review of the Literature

What makes a nurse choose to take the hospice route? Furthermore, what makes some who enters the healthcare and nursing profession more prone to taking this course in their career—are there some nurses who are meant to be or “cut out for”  →

Why Older African American Women Are More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer Than Other Groups : Culture, Religion, and Medicine

Research has shown that older African-American women are significantly more likely than other demographic groups to die of breast cancer and several have connected this fact to issues of culture and religion, not to a higher biological propensity. The question  →

Understanding Good Versus Bad Cholesterol : HDL versus LDL

Cholesterol receives a great deal of bad press, and for this reason, it is misunderstood. Misinformation and misconceptions about cholesterol can be as dangerous as the truly detrimental aspects of cholesterol such as the risk of heart attack, for instance; this is  →

Antibiotic Resistance Following Antibiotic Acne Treatments

Treating acne with antibiotics is a common practice and chances are, no matter how or extreme your case of acne is, one possible course of action your dermatologist will try is a course of antibiotics for an extended period. One  →

Safety and Effectiveness of Sucrose for Infants and Preterm Babies – Scholarly Analysis for Nursing

The question that will be explored here is whether sucrose and having an item to suck on can act as a pain reliever for babies, more specifically, for babies who were born preterm. There have been numerous anecdotal stories about  →

Why Uniforms Should be a Requirement in Public Schools

The use of uniforms in both public and private schools would alleviate many problems in schools and would end up saving parents quite a bit of money throughout the course of a school year. Thus, making uniforms mandatory for all  →

Technology Classes and Teacher Preparation: Confidence and its Impact on Practical Technology Application

Although many studies in the field of education and teacher preparation research have attempted to assess the value of introducing technology as a whole to future teachers enrolled in a teacher preparation program, most have been unable to distinctly determine  →

Critical Reading Classes in College? How to Meet the Lack of Critical Reading Skills in Today’s College Students

The question of whether not reading classes should be offered to college level students has been a contentious one and most faculty members at college institutions of all sizes agree that basic critical reading skills should be part of a  →

Education in Belgium : Language Issues in Primary and Secondary Belgian Schools

Education in Belgium is, for the most part on par with the rest of Western Europe, although due to language issues and the divisions they cause in Belgian schools, there is a wide degree of variance among particular language communities in the whole  →