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    Humans are imperfect beings and mistakes can happen. In the health care field errors can be deadly and are taken very seriously. There are several basic components of EHR and allows for patient information to be shared and charted throughout their life. The three basic components that will talk about concerning the EHR is patient management component‚ clinical component‚ and laboratory components and how they affect different safety measures. Proper documentation allows for less errors to happen

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    to be taken for Preventing Road Accidents • Most important method to bring down accidents is strict enforcement ofspeed limits.90 % of accidents can be avoided by strict enforcement ofspeed limits. • Heavy Penalty should be imposed on ALL those who cross speed limits. Ifthis is strictly implemented‚ nobody will dare to go at high speed. • Existing speed limits should be brought down further. • Heavy penalty should be imposed for those who cause accidents. • Tamper proof speed controllers

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    Case Study #2- Medication Error 1. Define “overdose.” What are some symptoms of overdose and statistics? Contrast accidental and intentional overdoses. An overdose is when a dangerous dosage of a drug is ingested. Fluctuation vital signs‚ exhaustion‚ dizziness‚ and chest‚ hear‚ and lung pain are all symptoms of overdose. Prescription drugs are the largest cause of deaths from overdose. In 2005‚ out of the 22‚400 overdoses‚ 38.2% were the result of pain killers. Intentional overdose is the misuse

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    will be discussing a patient who at 49 years of age became incapacitated by a left sided cerebrovascular accident (CVA) following a motor vehicle accident. To keep her identity completely confidential‚ I will be referring to her as Mary. I will not refer to any medical staff or buildings by name for this same reason. Mary had two seizures while in hospital recovering from the motor vehicle accident (MVA). Mary ’s recovery was progressing normally but was compromised by a CVA following the seizures which

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    CAUSES OF CAR ACCIDENTS IN OMAN 1‚051 people were killed on the road in 2011‚ according to the final statistics1 of the Royal Oman Police. Oman‚ unfortunately‚ has continuously recorded a huge leap2 in road accidents and accident- related deaths. Despite the fact that drivers should have a high degree of attention‚ caution and awareness‚ we cannot solely blame3 them for every single car accident. To discuss the main causes of car accidents in Oman I will confine4 myself to four main causes which

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    Discuss two errors in attributions. Attribution‚ defined as assigning a quality or character to a person or an object‚ in the context of Psychology‚ refers to the classification of factors that affect behaviour. Behaviour is attributed to either or both dispositional factors and situational factors. Dispositional factors refer to the internal causes of an individual’s behaviour‚ whilst situational factors deal with the external causes of behaviour which can include the social setting and environment

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    Random Error There were many sources of random errors that could be a factor involved in the variation of the group’s results. Randoms errors are human errors‚ they can affect the results gathered and contribute to reading errors and flaws within human reflexes. · Size of the liver cubes: As the liver cubes needed to be cut by each individual group‚ the sizes between the groups may have varied. The required size for the lamb liver cubes was 1cm3 ‚ however the task of cutting the liver into all

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    Things That Will Cause a Car Accident Today‚ there are many car accidents‚ some are fatal and some leave passengers with lifelong problems. Car accidents are one of the leading factors why the death rate is continuously rising. In this essay I will discuss how speeding‚ distractions‚ and how the weather cause car accidents. The most distinguished cause of accidents is speeding. People speed for many different reasons. Most of the time people don’t give themself enough time to get somewhere so

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    Cause and Effect Essay Is It Worth The Risk? There are many factors that can lead to traffic accidents. Irresponsible and careless actions of drivers‚ inclement weather and distracted driving are three major factors. Consequences of these three factors depend on a few variables. Among these variables are the impact of the collision‚ the number of

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    Head Prefect of my school‚ wish to give a talk on the reasons why accidents occur and give suggestions to reduce accidents. The rise in the number of road accidents and road fatalities is indeed worrying. Even the road safety campaigns aimed at reducing road accidents have met with little success. Only when there is a change in the mindsets of road users can we expect a decrease in the number of road accidents. The most reason that occur the problem

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