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Free Clinc That Will Be Opening in My Area
Free clinic opening stands out as a humanitarian measure of contributing back to the community. Free clinic serve to provide easy and affordable medical health care to citizens without medical insurance or Continue Reading...
CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in this article discusses the fact that corporate responsibility is fledgling in protecting employees at Ealing Hospital. The case discusses instances when professionals lost their jobs when stepping forward Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics
Imagine learning within one's organization that medical records are becoming electronic and additional training is needed. Will one react in a positive or negative manner? How long does it take to implement technology? What curre Continue Reading...
Analysts agree that Proposition 71 will at least pay for itself over the life of the bonds.
According to Somers (2004): "The economists from Stanford University and the Analysis Group predict that the initiative would generate at least $6.4 billion Continue Reading...
Ethics in Sonography
The ethical issues that are presented to us in this hypothetical ethical case study are all too likely to occur in real life as Australian teenage girls become pregnant all too often - and often have little understanding of the Continue Reading...
Thereby it is important that the professionals in the field must ask for additional advice.
Patient rights also include a freedom towards observing their lives in the clinics in accordance to their cultures and ethnic backgrounds. It has been menti Continue Reading...
Confidential Information Case Study
(Harvard Citation)
Confidential information generally consists of non-public information about people or institutions that if it were to be disclosed, could be expected to place either the person or the instituti Continue Reading...
Hospital for Special Surgery
In America there a wide variety of healthcare organizations, that have specialized in addressing the needs of various patients. Part of the reason why this occurring, is many facilities are unable to address the challeng Continue Reading...
Feldstein from Arizona. When the hospital was purchased by another company, they canceled the contract with Feldstein claiming that the actions that were taken were illegal. In the case, the court sided with Feldstein saying that a host of hospitals Continue Reading...
In 1990, 22,500 patients were dead due to non-treatment accounting for as much as 17.5% of all deaths. More than 1000 patients who did not fully satisfy the criteria for euthanasia were given lethal injections. In one case Dr. Chabot, a psychiatrist Continue Reading...
Had I better defined the problem early on in the call, I could have cut the frustration on both our parts by going directly to the objective of requesting an appointment via a message for cold signs and symptoms. Being more decisive would have led m Continue Reading...
Emergency Room Management
Diagnose the root causes of the complaints about the clinic.
In the recent number of days, the number of the patients visiting the clinic has slowly but drastically increased. In contrary to the past days, the sick patient Continue Reading...
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As our research shows, and as St. Leo's core values demonstrate, a great deal of Personal Development is required to face the difficult decisions that are implied by end-of-life planning. With this personal development, growth and maturati Continue Reading...
CLAS Standards
Non-English speaking patients present a challenge for those working in the healthcare industry due to the difficulty in accurately assisting and assessing the patient's needs. Because of this, it is required that interpreters be provi Continue Reading...
Barriers and Facilitators
Effectiveness, Barriers and Facilitators of Using Computerized Charting in the Operating Room
The world is surging ahead with technological boom which is leaving its indelible imprints on almost all the facets of human li Continue Reading...
Social Responsibilty Strategy for Community
Social Responsibility Strategy for Community Hospital
Alexandria Hospital
Corporate Social Responsibility
The following is a fictional plan of that will describe the development of a fictional Hospital' Continue Reading...
Tay-Sachs Teaching Plan
Desired patient outcomes
The patient to understand the genetic nature of Tay-Sachs disease.
Patient to understand the treatment options for Tay-Sachs disease.
Patient to understand the prognosis of Tay-Sachs.
Patient to k Continue Reading...
That is to say that relationships are considered above and beyond medical reasoning. "Futility would not be measured by the medical effect on the patient but by the effect on social relationships" (2000, p. 140). This means that even if a physician Continue Reading...
Gynecologist
In this presentation, the author will give an overview of the procurement and analysis of medical records required for a patient who needs to see a gynecologist for abnormal uterine bleeding at a gynecological office. This previously wo Continue Reading...
Stark Laws Case Study
The Stark Laws are three separate provisions that govern physician self-referral for Medicare and Medicaid patients, named after U.S. Congressman Pete Stark who first sponsored the legislation in the early 1990s. The idea for t Continue Reading...
(Singh, 2007)
E. Conflict Resolution
Conflict resolution is inclusive of several specific steps which are stated to include:
(1) Fact finding: Identify all individuals who are affected by the behavior and get complete history about the patterns o Continue Reading...
Advance Directives should include documented patient decisions about health care, which should be honored (Advanced practice in nursing: ethical and role issues in end-of-life care, 2004).
As medical knowledge and technology increase, so do option Continue Reading...
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Written Policies
Covered entities must develop and implement written privacy policies that are consistent with the Privacy Rule (OCR, 2003). This policy must address several components. One is that there must be a privacy official. The privacy of Continue Reading...
Patient Autonomy
The concept of patient autonomy, as opposed to medial paternity, is one that has gained much ground in recent years; "... about 30 years ago, issues began to appear that were difficult to solve using traditional ethics. New medical Continue Reading...
Newspapers frequently feature stories democratic principles processes contribute democratic governance impact a wide variety issues ranging distribution flu vaccines legal venue terrorist trials. Public policies formulated address issues result influ Continue Reading...
Under this standard, looking inside the medical record without a legitimate healthcare need, as determined by my supervisor, would be illegal (HHS, 2003). If I'm so concerned about my neighbor's health, I should just knock on their door and express Continue Reading...
Legality Risk Management
Over the last several years, there has been an increasing focus placed on the quality of health care services that an individual is receiving. This is because, a host of studies have shown that those who are provided with th Continue Reading...
Patient Education Brochure
Patient Privacy and Electronic Medical Records:
Patient Privacy and Electron Medical Records:
Patient Education Brochure
Brochure Content
With the implementation of computer-based medical records systems in private off Continue Reading...
Informally, each time the nurse interacts with the patient they can provide information; formally, training on specific medications, or procedures; or explaining to the family situations about upcoming tests, operations, or expectations, can be most Continue Reading...
For its versatility in eluding new antibiotics, it can be life-threatening. One of these "superbugs" is VRE, which is transmissible by direct hand contact or through surfaces and equipment by anyone, including the health care worker (Capriotti, 2007 Continue Reading...
Hospital Case Study
If the first requirement of any successful case study is a detailed and analytical examination of the situation, the emotional component of so called "high stakes" issues can make this requirement difficult, indeed. The simple fa Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage: Its Effect on Patient Outcome
In today's environment of rising costs in the health care industry, one of the first casualties in many hospitals is the level of RN staffing. In fact, across the country, hospital RNs are increasingly Continue Reading...
Mr. Medicare's Myocardia
Mr. Medicare Patient and his wife Mrs. Medicare were sitting on the couch watching a football game one Sunday, when Mr. Medicare began to feel ill. It began with a feeling like indigestion, which he attributed to the spicy c Continue Reading...
Beneficence
The field of nursing is shaped by a range of ethical principles; while all of these concepts are important, one could argue that perhaps the most crucial ethical principle is that of beneficence. "Beneficence is the obligation to do good Continue Reading...
Sky v. Holder
Susan Seven-Sky v. Eric H. Holder, 661 F.3d 1 (2011).
Facts
The Appellants in the case are four United States citizens and taxpayers who are seeking a declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the enforcement of the minimum essent Continue Reading...
Business Economics/Economic policy
Competitive Balance
Competitive balance is an important aspect to maintain in a league sports structure as it is a direct factor of the degree of uncertainty that could exist within a sporting event. The general Continue Reading...
Benefit Plan Design Analysis
Select and profile an organization for the benefit plan
Extraordinary and above average people are recruited by ABC. Their task force possesses a number of exceptional skills and many of them are graduates of top univer Continue Reading...
APNs have reported feeling greatly distressed when it comes to having to make end-of-life decisions because of a lack of support in this area. In conclusion, more effort needs to be put into making the lines less blurry for APNs so that they can mak Continue Reading...
I have a clear written mandate that guides this decision. The other alternatives do not have the same clear, written mandate as the one that I made. While a utilitarian approach may have yielded a different decision, in my position as a safeguard of Continue Reading...
Other states, in the case of medical research, mandate that a more stringent standard is applied -- that of the reasonable person standard (Edwards 2008). In other words, would a reasonable person consider the nature of the research ethical and acce Continue Reading...