Unit One: Role of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Scope of the Problem How many people ages 15 – 54 had a psychiatric or substance abuse disorder in their lifetime? Name the top three medical morbidities in the developed world: How many of the 15 leading causes of disability in developed countries are mental problems? 25% affected in a year 1 in 5 children in U.S. 18 million in U.S. have problem with etoh 23 million in U.S.
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America’s Privacy The National Security Agency (NSA) is a federal program under the Department of Defense that has the primarily task of global monitoring‚ collection‚ decoding‚ translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes‚ including surveillance of targeted individuals on U.S. soil. In the mid-1970s‚ the NSA was investigated for the first time by Congress. At that time‚ the order of the NSA was that is “would never direct it’s
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Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality
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In the 1880’s and 1890’s‚ college football and prize fighting began to ascend into the American limelight. The two sports went from being available to only certain social classes to being made available to all of them. The lower and middle social class would slowly begin to attend college football games and the upper class would start to make their way out to watch prize fighting matchups; two things that appeared as rarities earlier in the decade. With prize fighting originating in areas populated
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Ethical relativism is the theory that morality is relative to the norms of one’s culture. That is‚ the moral norms of the society practiced depend on whether an action is right or wrong. But‚ the problem with moving from cultural perspective to cultural relativism is rather than saying‚ “we need to understand the morals of other cultures‚” it says‚ “we cannot judge the morals of other cultures‚” regardless of the reasons for their actions. The same action may be right in one society but be wrong
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Instagram and the Ethics of Privacy Monday‚ Feb. 4‚ 2013 Background Founded in 2010‚ Instagram considers itself to be “a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures.” By downloading the free Instagram mobile application (or app)‚ users snap a photo with their mobile phone‚ then choose a filter to transform the image‚ and can share it on various sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The company views itself as more than just a photo-storage tool but a way “to experience
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Introduction Patient satisfaction has been recognized as an essential component of several measures by which the quality of care is assessed. Many investigators and policymakers feel that its role in the assessment of quality of care is crucial(1‚2). Donabedian has stated that "achieving and producing health and satisfaction is the ultimate validator of the quality of care" (2). The study of patient’s satisfaction‚ aims in general‚ at determining the effect of satisfaction on patient behaviour in
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Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Frogs & Human Subjects (1‚ 2‚ 5-8‚ 10-12‚ 14-16) 1. There is a greatr concentration of Na+ f ; there is a greater concentration of K+ e . When the stimulus is delivered‚ the ermeability of the membrane at that point is changed; and c ‚ initiating the depolarization of the membrane. Almost as soon as the depolarization wave has begun‚ a repolarization wave follows it across the membrane. This occurs as b . Repolarization restores the h of the resting cell membrane
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This month is devoted to data structures. This isn ’t a computer science course‚ so let ’s define a data structure as a data holder--something that holds whatever data we need while our program executes. Visual BASIC and VBA use two basic data structures: the array and the collection. This month when I say VB‚ I also mean VBA. ARRAYS Most VB programmers are familiar with the array (figure 1). An array can be single or multidimensional‚ which means it can have rows and columns. While the array
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What does ethical mean? Ethical can be defined as‚ ‘relating to principles of what is right and wrong’ (Longman dictionary) or‚ ‘relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these’ (Oxford dictionary) another definition is “Ethics can be viewed from two angles‚ normative and prescriptive. First‚ ethics refers to well-based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do‚ usually in terms of rights‚ obligations‚ benefits to society‚ fairness‚ and specific
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