Should hospitals test pregnant women for drug use without their consent? Hospitals‚ during their normal course of treatment should test pregnant women for drugs of any type‚ whether legal or not. Of course‚ the patient should be informed of such testing‚ but consent should not be required. Findings of illegal drugs should be used to educate and treat the mother for an addiction rather than informing law enforcement of such an activity. Hospitals are in the business of treating people’s ailments
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Fatima Jama Dr. Kembitzky Geometry May 9 2013 Hexagon Area Hello Timmy! I heard you have been sick with the flu for a while so‚ I took the liberty of getting you on your feet before class so you are not lost. So this paper will help you find the area of a hexagon using special right triangles‚ using trigonometry‚ breaking the hexagon into smaller polygons‚ and even show you how to construct one! So let’s get started‚ this hexagon has a radius of 6 cm‚ keep in mind that there are many different
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Cushing’s Syndrome Cushing’s Syndrome is a condition that results from chronic exposure to excessive amounts of glucocorticoids circulating in the blood stream for an extended period of time. The disease was first reported by Harvey Cushing over one hundred years ago‚ yet the condition still plagues endocrinologists today. Reasons for this difficulty include the vast amount of often vague symptoms that the syndrome presents‚ most of which are found in a plethora of other conditions as well‚ combined
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Bibliography: Bariatric Surgery for Severe Obesity‚ National Institutes of Health. 2009;08-4006. Retrieved 2010-07-30. Buchwald H‚ Avidor Y‚ Braunwald E‚ et al. (October 2004) “Bariatric surgery: a systemic review and meta-analysis.” JAMA 292 (14):1724-37. Doi: 10.101/jama.292.14.1724.PMID 15479938. Lee C‚ Zieve‚ D. Laparoscopic gastric banding. National Institutes of Health‚ Retrieved 2010-07-08. Surgical Procedures & Innovations: Gastric Bandings Columbia University‚ Center for Metabolic and Weight
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health care quality improvement. The Health Care Manager. 25(3): 206-212. [15]Garg AX‚ Adhikari NK‚ Mcdonald H‚ (2005) Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review. JAMA. 293(10): 1223-1238. [16]Ornstein S‚ Jenkins RG‚ Nietert PJ‚ (2004) A multi-method quality improvement intervention to improve preventive cardiovascular care: a cluster randomized trial. Annual Internal Medicine. 141(7): 523-532. [20]Charles BL. (2000)
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Health Care Spending HCS/440 Economics: The Financing of Health Care Today‚ health care costs are rising significantly faster than the national income. Kellerman (2012) states‚ “The U.S. spends far more on health care per capita and as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on earth‚ according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development” (para. 3). Furthermore‚ health care spending has become a paramount issue that is overshadowing other important affairs‚ such as education
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Science and Technology Boning—Boon or Bane? The subject of human cloning (reproductive cloning) is shrouded in controversy‚ right from its conception. On the other hand therapeutic cloning‚ which is sometimes misunderstood as reproductive cloning‚ is not the creation of an offspring but instead‚ vital stem cells are taken from human embryos‚ which are then used to generate tissues and organs. These organs and tissues can be then used for transplantation. The ultimate aim of this process
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Barbara M. Cook HCA 375: Continuous Quality Monitoring & Accreditation Illegible Physicians Handwriting Jacqueline McClure August 31‚ 2009 Introduction Illegible handwriting and transcription errors are responsible for as much as 61 percent of medication errors in hospitals. A simple mistake such as putting the decimal point in the wrong place can have serious consequences causing a patient ’s dosage to be 10 times the recommended amount. This is a serious problem. Bad handwriting
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and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs‚ visit www.nih.gov. Reference Disrupted ventromedial prefrontal function‚ alcohol craving‚ and subsequent relapse risk. Seo‚ D‚ Lacadie CM‚ Tuit K‚ Hong K-I‚ Constable RT‚ Sinha R. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 May 1. [Epub ahead of print] Drugs Help Tailor Alcoholism Treatment By Douglas
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P.‚ Haas‚ J.‚ Salman‚ L.‚ & Larson‚ E. L. (2006‚ August). Impact of staffing on bloodstream infections in the neonatal intensive care unit. JAMA Pediatrics‚ 160(8)‚ 832-836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.8.832 Montalvo‚ I. (2007‚ September). The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing‚ 12(3). Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld
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