Older Refugees: Strategies in Dealing With Denied Recognition

Viable strategies for dealing with the uninsured.

Comparing Some Substructural Strategies Dealing with Vagueness

It is well-known that in combination with further premises that look less controversial, the tolerance principle – the constraint that if Pa holds, and a and b are similar in P -relevant respects, Pb holds as well – leads to contradiction, namely to the sorites paradox. According to many influential views of the sorites paradox (e.g. Williamson 1994), we therefore ought to reject the principle ...

Dealing with common skin lesions in older people

JCN 2015, Vol 29, No 6 53 Skin cancer can affect people at any age, however the majority of skin cancers develop in older people (Farage et al, 2008; Johnson and Taylor, 2012), with the incidence of malignant melanoma being 10 times that of younger people (Lasithiotakis et al, 2010). It can be difficult for community nurses to identify dangerous skin lesions as many people have a certain amount...

Strategies for dealing with amoxicillin failure in acute otitis media.

Acute otitis media is the most common bacterial infection in pediatric patients. The predominant pathogens of acute otitis media are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. Traditionally, amoxicillin has been the first-line therapeutic choice for patients with uncomplicated acute otitis media. However, with the increasing isolation of beta-lactamase-producin...

Strategies and Bad habits in dealing with email at work

Background and rationale The explosion of new technology communications – email in particular in the workplace, within the last ten to twenty years, has literally been phenomenal. It has changed the way that we organise and deal with our work, and altered our approach to communication entirely (Kraut and Attewell, 1997). Developments in email technology have progressed at a far greater pace tha...