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 4 Key Terms Angela Fuca Undoing - actions designed to make amends to cancel out inappropriate behavior! ! ! ! ! ! ! Active Listening - received massage is paraphrased back to the sender to verify the correct message was decoded! Time Focus - defines the period of time that is important and to which an individuals actions are directed or orientated! Bias - slant toward a particular belief! Body Language - nonverbal communication that includes unconscious body movements‚
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Importance of Communication in Hospital & Medical Settings Communication skills are essential no matter into which professional you are. The success of every workplace greatly depends on how effective the communication is. If the things are not communicated effectively‚ it will raise confusions‚ misconceptions and troubles. Therefore‚ it is extremely crucial that you carry out effective communication in an office space. Miscommunications can often lead to arguments‚ which can result in poor
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are entering a new millennium with growing concern from large numbers of parents and professionals in the medical field. When compared with the relative statistics of disease in our country‚ we then think about the safety of vaccinations with a more open viewpoint. Vaccinations can be our lifelong friend‚ or a lifelong enemy. Perhaps there can be no topic with a greater argument in the medical field‚ than that of childhood vaccinations. Vaccines have an important part in the prevention of certain
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It is believed that using animal in medical research is necessary. It is indeed cruel to regard animals as sacrificial lambs for science development. However‚ many consider that people’s life is more important‚ testing on animals is the best way to reduce the harm on human so far and it is needed for those patients who need to be helped. Using animals in research is not ethical‚ but we have to keep doing‚ it is known through the article Do We Need To Use Animal In Research by Jane McCabe. Using
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I understand that the years after kindergarten where more difficult than you thought it would be and it is very different you never worried about being lonely or being bullied and frankly you don’t have to until those rumors started going around and you lost all your friends or who you thought where your friends at least but you had few who stayed and you clung to them hoping that they wouldn’t leave you too and they didn’t not until a few years later when they where in different classes and when
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Uses of echocardiography Echocardiography (echo) can be used to evaluate your cardiac performance‚ the function of your heart valves‚ the thickness and motion of your heart walls‚ and the size of your heart chambers. An echo can help diagnose many heart conditions. Cardiac performance An echocardiogram can show how well your heart pumps blood (cardiac performance). To evaluate your cardiac performance‚ your doctor will mainly be interested in: • Your left ventricle‚ which pumps oxygen-rich
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Wea`am Mohammad Al-jarie Dr. mokhleed zaza physics Medical applications of x-ray Introduction: X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers‚ corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3×1016 Hz to 3×1019 Hz) X-rays up to about 10 keV (10 to 0.10 nm wavelength) are classified as "soft" X-rays‚ and from about 10 to 120 keV (0.10 to 0.01 nm wavelength) as "hard" X-rays‚ due
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1. How can eliminating abbreviations reduce errors? I think that eliminating medical abbreviations would reduce errors because many abbreviations are very similar and people get confused between them‚ however‚ if abbreviations were eliminated it would make it very difficult on medical professionals. They would have to write out very lengthy medical terms. According to Dr. Darryl S. Rich‚ “to minimize the potential for error and to maximize patient safety‚ prescribers need to avoid such specifically
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