Hira Abad 11 May 2009 Euthanasia-An Ethical Dilemma Death is nothing new‚ it has existed for thousands of years. Lately‚ we are forced to rethink the issue of death and we must decide what types of practices and behavior are ethical when someone is dying. One such practice-which has posed a moral and ethical dilemma for the society- is euthanasia. Euthanasia or "mercy killing" is the act of killing a person‚ who is ill and in great distress‚ without the hope of recovery in spite of
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Evidence Based Interventions for Families with Co-Occurring Needs Parent management training (PMT) is also known as behavioral parent training (BPT) is an evidence based intervention for families with co-occurring needs such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)‚ oppositional defiant disorder‚ and conduct disorder. This intervention was developed in the early 1960’s‚ due to the increase in the need for therapies focusing on the child and parental needs. The pioneers of this intervention
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science and the expansion of medical knowledge have impacted the advancement of nursing theories over the years. Florence Nightingale’s Notes on nursing (1859) is the first identifiable action taken to differentiate the field of nursing from other medical professions. After which nursing theory evolved into theories that are practical to the profession‚ grounded in the latest evidence-based research‚ and provide a meaningful foundation for nursing practice (CCN‚ 2014) Wu & Volker (2011) discussed the
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systems related in whole or part to individual or group performance or profit There are systems based in part on the worker gaining and using additional skills or competencies Pay systems provide the bases on which an organisation rewards workers for their individual contribution‚ skill and performance. Pay structures are different - they are used to determine specific pay rates for particular jobs‚ usually based on the nature of the job‚ its content and requirements. A pay structure provides the framework
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Abstract The subject of evidence-based practice is discussed in this paper beginning with a definition of the term taken from our text by Blais and Hayes (2011). I discuss the way in which we care for intravenous lines as an example of a procedure done at our hospital that uses evidence-based guidelines like those listed on the National Guideline Clearinghouse website to reduce central line associated blood stream infections. A summary of an article demonstrating the use of a solution of chlorhexidine
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which contribute to her feeling worth in life (Bainbridge & Rickets‚ 2013). 1.4 Ethical dilemmas and conflicts faced by the care workers in health and social setting Dilemma is a situation when an individual faced difficult to make a choice in between two or more alternatives. In care homes‚ regarding patient’s care in daily basis care staff faces major ethical dilemmas. Without satisfactory result‚ ethical dilemmas can be defined as problem (Bainbridge & Ricketts‚ 2003). Ethics are always positive
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The natural‚ if optimistic‚ conclusion to that line of thought
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Manual Annotation of Amharic News Items with Part-of-Speech Tags and its Challenges* Abstract Since September 2005‚ the Ethiopian Languages Research Center of Addis Ababa University has been engaged in a project called "The Annotation of Amharic News Documents". The project was meant to tag manually each Amharic word in its context with the most appropriate parts-of-speech. This paper presents the POS tagset developed for annotating the news documents‚ the problems
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ethics but also in the constitution. Hence‚ nurses and for that matter‚ all health care professional have a legal‚ moral and ethical responsibility to protect patient’s privacy. Moral and ethics are all about doing good and not causing harm to individuals and society. Thus standing in Lena shoes is not an easy responsibility at all. Lina certainly faced an ethical dilemma of balancing the safety of her sister health and the privacy of her patient. Erickson and Millar (2005) sated “As nurses‚ we
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very confusing. For example‚ what do you mean by evidence-based? Sally: That is a really good question‚ I think that a lot of parents would wonder about that. The concept of evidence-based interventions began in the field of medicine in the 1970’s and is now used in many disciplines such as pathology‚ psychology‚ counselling‚ and education. It is an everyday clinical practice founded on scientific evidence of effectiveness. Evidence based interventions have been studied under strongly controlled
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