Statins and Other Lipid-lowering Medicines | Health Print | Patient.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Statins and Other Lipid-lowering Medicines Statin medicines reduce the blood cholesterol level. This helps to prevent heart disease‚ stroke and related diseases in people at increased risk. Most people are not troubled by side-effects. However‚ if you take a statin‚ tell a doctor if you develop unexplained muscle pain‚ tenderness or weakness (which may be due to a rare‚ but serious‚ side-effect). What
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Running head: PATIENTS’ DIGNITY AND THE EFFECTS OF NURSING CARE Patients’ Dignity and the Effects of Nursing Care Patients’ Dignity and the Effects of Nursing Care Introduction Modern healthcare is moving toward a patient-centered care‚ emphasizing patients’ autonomy‚ and participation in decision making about treatment. Despite these expectations‚ patients feel vulnerable not only due to disease process‚ but also due to the power exerted by the hospital system
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Patient portals are healthcare related online application that allow patients to interact and communicate with healthcare providers‚ such as physicians and hospitals. Typical portal service is available on the internet at all hours of the day and night. Some patient portals applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their services to health care providers. Other portal applications are integrated into existing web site of a health care provider. Still others are modules added onto an
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Privacy‚ Laws‚ and Security Measures Percy A. Grisby II Computer Ethics January 23‚ 2015 Professor Sonya M. Dennis Privacy is the rights an organization or an individual has to collect‚ disclose‚ retain and use their personal information (Subramanian‚ 2008). When we talk about privacy‚ most of the times it deals with private information which is the information that are linked directly or indirectly to an individual. Private information helps identify customers‚ employees and other stakeholders
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DATA PRIVACY IN ONLINE BANKING What is online banking? Online banking is the process of making bank transactions over the internet Usefulness of Online banking You can pay your bills‚ transfer money to multiple accounts‚ make withdrawals and deposits‚ monitor transactions on your account‚ buy and sell securities with only the click of a mouse and its that convenient. You can now do all this in the comfort of your home and customers no longer need to go to the bank and can avoid
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risks to one’s privacy through these E-commerce transactions. The privacy risks faced by internet users is one of the biggest threats in E-commerce‚ thus‚ this paper’s purpose is to provide information regarding internet privacy and the dangers associated with the loss of that privacy through the discussion of the following topics: the definition of internet privacy‚ the means through which one’s privacy can be compromised through the internet and the reason why internet privacy had become a major
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End of Privacy When people use Facebook‚ we mostly go on there to observe people’s daily posts for attention. They grab seekers attention by posting statuses‚ revealing the location‚ or displaying pictures that show where they are located. This allows other Facebook users a chance to steal people’s identity‚ or a chance to snatch children up by their location. The main problem is‚ who is really monitoring and protecting our privacy on Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg is famously the owner and CEO of Facebook
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Octopus and Privacy: Business Ethics Table of Content Introduction 3 The Objective 3 Research Methods 3 Background of the Company 3 Background of the Issue 5 Identification of Issue 7 Analysis of Issues 8 Recommendation 10 Conclusion 11 Appendix 12 List of Reference 12 Introduction Hong Kong has one of the most highly successful e-purse programs‚ the Octopus card. The Octopus card‚ which began in the niche transportation industry and extended outward to retailers‚ has been widely adopted
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IntroductionIn this assignment I will be exploring the legal‚ professional and ethical issues involved in bed bathing a patient/client in a hospital setting. I will be reflecting on a personal experience‚ experience during a seven week placement on a diabetic ward. I have decided to use a reflective cycle which is an adaptation from Gibbs ’ (1988) model.This reflection has provided a systematic approach to my learning and to my nursing practice. Within this essay I intend to discuss approaches to
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Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace Employee privacy rights have been the topic of great debate in recent years. This essay will examine: the definition of privacy‚ employers rights to access activities done in the workplace‚ to whom the resources such as time and equipment belong‚ and employee monitoring as an invasion of privacy or a performance evaluation tool. These are the core issues of the employee privacy rights controversy. Employee privacy rights should only be applicable to the personal
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