Therapeutic communication is a practice that allows effective rapport-building between the medical personal, regardless of current role, and the patient. ... In the end, it allows our perspective to focus on the big picture rather than just the current situation. ... The simple contact can help a patient deal with emotional and physical loss, and can encourage clients to express grief about their current situation. ... Sometimes in nursing a patient or staff member may make an ambiguous comment that needs to be brought better into focus. ... " brings clearer focus to the patients situa...

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Overall, though healthcare should be a right to all Americans, it is treated more like a luxury only available for those who can afford it, creating an industry that cannot continue on its current path. ... With the focus on creating a 'public option' which would mitigate the cost of healthcare for the roughly 46 million who are reported to be uninsured today, Obama is working against a grain of industry lobbies and Republican Party leaders. ... The discussion here provides a basis for the overhaul and the public option through a consideration of the current failures which have damag...

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The aims in this discussion are to look at Patient Safety First (2011) quote stating that, 'with NHS change, focus is to be maintained on delivery of safer, better care to the patient.' ... For the purpose of this assignment I will ensure focus is channelled toward the scenario and will therefore examine the hazards/potential hazards of electrosurgical smoke plume on the patient and intraoperative team. Perioperative personnel and patients are routinely exposed to this smoke, and there is currently no legislation making use of smoke evacuation devices mandatory (Ball, 2010). Reviewi...

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Definition Currently there is no universally accepted definition of telemedicine. ... Thede (2002) describes telehealth as "the use of electronic communication networks to transmit data or information that focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, consultation, education, and/or therapy." ... Current Status of Telemedicine Currently every state in this country has at least one telemedicine program. ... For the most part, consultations via the Internet or video conferencing are the major ways that health care services are currently provided via telemedicine (Ashley, 200...

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The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HERD) is active in ongoing research that is focused solely on the social and economic factors associated with the HIV/AIDS problem. It is a global organization that is more focused on international health, but it also works to educate people globally about HIV/AIDS and it develops programs that will aid the global community. ... Policy makers need to fully understand the costs and benefits, the current social impact, and the future social impacts if no changes are made vs if changes are made, in order to more fully serve those in need and ...

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The purpose of this project is to examine current imaging technology and practice to determine if doses can effectively be reduced and still maintain diagnostic image quality. The hypothesis is that current digital media will be able to account for variances that might degrade image quality and still yield a diagnostic study. ... This focus becomes ever more important as the populations increase in number and age. ... Research Question Is there a correlation between dose reduction techniques and image quality with current digital technology? ...

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In the process of evaluating Matteson's health systems, we divided up the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for this community; STRENGTHS with a focus on Access to Health Services. ... Just like in any other community, maternal-infant health, with focus on infant malnutrition and low immunization rate represents one of the community's health problems too (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). ...

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A MARKETING RESEARCH PLAN EMPATHY TRAINING Introduction The bedside manner currently used by the medical profession while conveying pertinent information to a cancer patient is quite disturbing. ... Our analysis included observation, another form of primary data by investigating the current personal attitudes regarding the interaction between the medical profession and cancer patients to determine the need for more training in the area of care and compassion. We have discovered the existing attitudes of oncologists are distressing, and the bedside manner the medical profession currently u...

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Given demand for limited resources within the health care system and other sectors of the economy, some observers believe current services might not provide benefits commensurate with costs. ... While physician and other profession/provider buy-in is crucial to an equitable system and certainly to good quality of care, the consistent focus has been on the identified person. ... The notion that denial of care or benefits can be justified for the common good underlies much of the current utilitarian calculus of managed care, population-based medicine. ... While focus on the public health may ign...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor chooses to aid a patient in the process of killing himself or herself. This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases...

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It is known that the first written text on the use of medicinal plants is about 4000 years old and appears in a clay small board in the Sumerian culture, an antique group of people who lived at the south of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which would be equivalent to the current Iraq territory. ... Current Uses Have you ever heard the term an apple a day keeps the doctor away? ...

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If any professional stay focused on clients, he or she would be remembered. ... By sticking with the correct understandings, I want to continually develop myself evading inertia. 2.1 Preferred Learning Style and current skills As a kid, I tried to learn different styles of learning. ... The main focus in development plan is to improve my weaknesses. ...

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Now a days, acupuncture is being used to "treat" a number of current issues from a simple migraine or back pain to various forms of addiction, such as alcohol, nicotine, or cocaine addiction. In focusing on acupuncture as our example, we can see how many alternative medicine practices compromise a massive and diverse group of treatments, but also observe the efficiency of randomized clinical trials in testing the validity of acupuncture's claims. ... Popper focused on the problem of demarcation, distinguishing between science and pseudoscience. ...

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In England, healthcare policy is focused on two main forms of care: primary and secondary. ... While In Wales, the main focus is on patient's quality of care and public safety; placing an emphasis on high value evidence based care. ... NHS Scotland currently employs approximately 140,000 staff who work fourteen regional Health boards which are subdivided into Community Health Partnerships, to provide local services more effectively. ...

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Many medical facilities are concerned with the manufacturer and the distribution partner being able to meet current inventory levels, which may cause them to purchase additional inventory to minimize the risk. ... Equiptek's main focus was to ensure that computer compliance and customer supply needs were addressed before January 1, 2000. ...

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