Emily’s Site

The pandemic was a tough time for all, but I especially feel that it was hard for the elderly population. I feel that since elders were at a higher risk of contracting COVID 19, they may have sheltered themselves more than others in the community. Although this was for their safety, it still gets lonely at times. One elder that I was close to during the pandemic was my grandmother. It was a difficult time because I worked in the…

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Prior to this class I didn’t realize that there was a difference between telehealth and telemedicine. And as a whole, I did not know very much information about the subject all together. My preconceived thoughts were that telehealth/medicine was at a much smaller scale and less capabilities that there actually are out there. I figured that telehealth was responsible for small things such as sending patients vital signs from an at home device for the hospital to receive the data…

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To be honest, I didn’t really have many thoughts towards the needle exchange program. At first, I thought it was just going to be a program where people had a place to bring their dirty needles instead of throwing them on the street. I thought that this was a good concept. After listening to the guest speaker on Thursday, I do not necessarily agree with the needle exchange program. I feel that a program like this is enabling the drug…

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