Medical Terminology‚ Hit 107 40967600 Abbreviations are a great way to reduce handwriting errors‚ and medical term errors in the healthcare field. Eliminating abbreviation errors could reduce medication errors. One major cause of errors is dangerous abbreviations and medical doses and expressions. You can add more letters to reduce these errors. The errors are unreadable or confusing handwriting by
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Unsafe Abbreviations In 2001‚ The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert on the subject of medical abbreviations‚ and just one year later‚ it’s Board of Commissions approved a National Patient Safety Goal requiring accredited organizations to develop and implement a lost of abbreviations not to use. In 2004‚ the joint Commission created its “do not use” list of abbreviations as part of the requirements for meeting that goal. Currently‚ this requirement
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* Chapter 1 (introducing strategy) * summarize the strategy of an organization in a strategy statement * identify key issues for an organization’s strategy according to the exploring strategy model * distinguish between corporate‚ business operational strategies * understand how different people contribute to strategy at work * Appreciate the contributions of different academic disciplines and theoretical lenses to practical strategy analysis Focus:
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medical abbreviations would reduce errors because many abbreviations are very similar and therefore people get confused between them‚ however‚ if abbreviations were eliminated it would make it very difficult on medical professionals who would have to write out very lengthy medical terms. That’s why many organizations are developing written policies stating which abbreviations should not be used and medical professionals are trained to write legible when using other abbreviations. Simple
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Abbreviations in the medical field make it 10 times easier and quicker but elimination some of these abbreviations can help reduce errors. (1) Through new technologies such as computerized order entry systems are being introduced into heath care. It is estimated that currently 5 percent of US physicians utilize these systems and write there prescriptions electronically. If more physicians used this system it would automatically reduce the errors. If some of the more common misused abbreviations
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The use of abbreviations in the medical field has recently become a major issue and a national concern as a cause of medication or other life-threatening errors. Medical errors have been determined to be the eighth most common cause of patient deaths in the United States (Nordenberg‚ 200). When dealing with medical information and a person ’s life‚ accurate and understandable written or computerized documentation is of utmost importance. Eliminating abbreviations can reduce errors because this
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messaging brings to people great convenience‚ it’s a new language appears in our life. Now‚ teenagers created easier SMS language‚ but do not all the people like it‚ especially English teacher. Text messaging brings not only benefits but harm as well. The attitude of the people on the message mixed. This essay will explain the advantages and disadvantages of text messaging. There are a number of reasons why SMS is useful. The first effect is effective and fashionable massaging. The University of
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Balinas‚ Austeen Llenor Comm 199 ------------------------------------------------- Final Thesis Proposal I. INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Text messaging or what we commonly call texting is originally derived from SMS or short messaging system; it refers to the exchange of abbreviated words‚ being sent from one mobile phone to another (Vosloo‚ 2009). Mobile phones were first created during mid-1990 (Thurlow & Poff‚ 2011)‚ and were primarily for business purposes (Salango
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EFFECT OF BIODEGRADABLE SM PLASTIC BAG IN DIFFERENT SUBSTRATE ABSTRACT The purpose of this Investigatory project is to determine the effect of different substrates on the biodegradability of SM plastic bags. The materials needed are: 6‚ 1-litre glass jars; 6‚ 7”x9” aluminums trays; 12 pcs. 3”x4” SM plastic bags; 500g loam soil; 500g compost soil; 500mL seawater; 500mL tap water; Analytical balance; Graduated cylinder; and Weighing scale. The procedure involved cutting the SM plastics bags
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Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Background Information 4 3. Macro-environment Analysis 5 3.1 Political 5 3.2 Economics 5 3.3 Social 6 3.4 Technological 6 3.5 Relating Key drivers for change with Opportunities and Threats 7 4. Porter’s Five-Forces 8 4.1 Threat of new entry 8 4.2 Threat of Substitutes 9 4.3 Bargaining power of buyers 9 4.4 Bargaining power of suppliers 10 4.5 Competitive Rivalry 10 5. Resources and Competences 11 5.1 Financial Resource 12 5.2 Human Resource 12 5.3 Intangible
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