girl is brought into a physician’s office by her mother because the mother noticed a rash that started to appear on her daughter’s legs about 2 months ago. The rash is not painful or itchy and does not seem to be resolving. The patient is up-to-date on her immunizations and has no other medical problems besides the usual colds‚ the last one occurring about 3 months ago. She shares a bed with her older sister but is the only one in the family with the rash. Vital signs are within normal limits‚ and physical
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Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Lerzan Gültekin Atılım University in Ankara‚ Turkey lerzan_gultekin@atilim.edu.tr Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity‚ emphasizing cultural‚ psychological and physical displacement due to colonization‚ travelling‚ exploration and space / place (cartography)‚ referring to the theories
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Patient is a young female‚ between 20-30 years of age‚ with history of schizoaffective disorder who has been hospitalized for about 3 months in an acute facility for acute mania with psychosis and disorganized/combative behavior. At first‚ patient refused to take medication‚ so a hearing was held and was deemed with an involuntary treatment commitment. Initial medications were found to be ineffective‚ which called for further treatment. Over the past few months‚ medication regimens were balanced
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outpatient settings. More than $20 billion of the federal economic stimulus (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) is slated to assist physicians‚ hospitals‚ and other health care settings in adopting health information technology (Gill‚ 2009). The government wants to shift into the digital era and it is highly recommended that all hospitals become compliant by 2015 and has provided reimbursement incentives and an electronic medical records deadline for those who adopt electronic medical records
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Evaluation: The patient is a 67year old female that was re-admitted for a surgical infection following an abdominal hysterectomy. She was admitted to the facility seven days ago followed by a surgical procedure which was completed five days prior to this report. Patient is scheduled to be discharged with home health and IV antibiotics. This patient was selected for audit. Review of the chart shows that the patient’s H&P was completed on day 3 of the admission. Joint Commission hospital accreditation
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7-14 Compare the business models and core competencies of Google‚ Apple‚ and Facebook. Ans: Google: Google’s business model is centered on Internet search engine and advertisement and they clearly dominate it. It provides values to the customers by providing the fastest‚ inexpensive search engine as well as web based services and software applications. They believe that in-app advertisements are the biggest source of revenue so they put all their emphasis on providing online advertising services
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Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field Dana Cook Nova Southeastern University Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field It is estimated that 1 in 10 patients will experience a nosocomial infection (Biddle‚ 2009). With this staggering fact‚ patient safety and infection prevention is at the forefront of healthcare. Many changes have occurred in this area since the 1840s. This is when Semmelweis‚ a Viennese obstetrician‚ made
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Concept of Patient Satisfaction Nursing theories gives directions and guidance for structuring nursing practice and also these theories are the part of nursing education and research. Many of the nursing theories are based on the concept of caring. Watsons Human caring theory one of the well-known caring theory. The institution I work for uses the caring model which is based on the human caring theory of Jean Watson. “Transpersonal Caring Relationship” is the foundation of her theory. Watson based
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UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MASTERS IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MHA) PATIENT SAFETY Individual Assignment 1 SUBMITTED BY: Regan Ramkissoon PS57095 April 12th 2013 Patient Safety Assignment Background SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On Friday 27th January 2012‚ a young mother was trying to get her ailing twenty one month old baby to the hospital. The child was an outpatient of the San Fernando General Hospital as he had three holes in his heart and an enlarged liver. Earlier that day
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1. What kinds of applications are described here? What business functions do they support? How do they improve operational efficiency and decision making? The applications defined in this case are e-mail‚ calendar and contacts from Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. In addition‚ there are some new software applications: hospital’s MEDITECH electronic medical records system‚ Epocrates Essentials and ChainLinq Mobile. The businesses functions of these applications are assisting employees accomplish their
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