Shriners Hospitals for Children

My second semester as a nursing student offered insight to a variety of situations that occur that require you to follow your ethical obligations rather than relying on personal moral values. I experienced this while at the Western Community Day Care when a five year old received a soda to drink early in the morning from her mother. The mother’s logic behind this decision was to supply her daughter with something high in sugar to wake her up; although I can understand her reasoning, I extremely…

Throughout the history of mankind, we have created a countless amount of criticism for those considered “different”, commonly through isms such as racism, nativism, and sexism. Another ism often forgot about is ableism, which is “a set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities” (Stop Ableism) Julie Zeilenger a well-known blogger who is partnered with Women’s Media Center wrote, “Nearly 1 in 5…

the hospital, Dick’s parents were waiting at the house for them to arrive. In From the Seeds of Sadness Gemma stated, “When they saw his flattened head and cumbersome body cast, a sad, agonized look passed like an ominous cloud across the faces of his grandparents” (p.25). She said that their response should have alerted them for how others would react to Mike too. Gemma also stated, “Neighbors stared curiously whenever we left the house, but none ever came over to welcome us and our children.…

Bibliography In this day and age there is a lot of controversy over whether it is still necessary for all children to receive vaccinations, and whether vaccines are responsible for developmental disorders in children. There are some that say parents that don’t vaccinate their children should be jailed, however there are parents that allege vaccinations have led to developmental disorders in their children, and in some cases even death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC), Food Drug…