Balance Between Communication and Confidentiality Abstract This paper explores six articles on health information technology (HIT) and how this new trend of communication; although as it has its positive effects on quality of care‚ raises the ethical issue of patient confidentiality. This paper explores the fine line between communication and breaches in patient confidentiality‚ and the importance of a trusting nurse-patient relationship. Balance Between Communication and Confidentiality
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Sample and Design Critique The purpose of this paper is to critique the design‚ sample and ethical issues used in the selected research studies. The article “The Experience of Patients Undergoing Awake Craniotomy” is a qualitative study. The overall purpose of the study is as Palese‚ Skrap‚ Fachin‚ Visioli‚ and Zannini‚ (2008) states‚ “Although different techniques are used‚ very little has been documented about how the patients feels‚ what they think about‚ or how they approach this type of surgery
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but because of my nervousness‚ it seemed like it took hours. When we finally arrived at the hospital I could not wait to see my son born. The doctor told me wait in another room until she had received the spinal anesthesia. Although the doctor was having trouble administering the anesthesia‚ nobody came to tell me that for about an hour. I was very worried! Finally‚ the nurse came to get me‚ explained what had happened and took me to the operating room for She’s c-section. I was surprised that
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Case Study 20: The Digestive and Urinary Systems 1) Marissa‚ a newborn with a cleft lip and palate‚ is the third child of Juan and Maria. Both Juan and Maria are “visually alarmed” at Marissa’s appearance; however‚ Juan is more distant and reserved. Maria is very concerned with Marissa’s wellbeing and future and seems to take blame for Marissa’s physical condition. 2) The incidence of cleft lip (CL) with or without cleft palate (CP) is approximately 1 in 800 live births. The incidence of CP alone
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to become a doctor by his father. At the age of 16 he was enrolled at the Edinburgh‚ Scotland as a medical student. He showed little interest in medicine and was horrified by the brutality of the surgery that was performed with no anesthesia or pain relief‚ as anesthesia wasn’t used for operations until 1842. His knowledge of natural history was basically born while attending Edinburgh by a Professor by the name of Robert Grant‚ a highly reputable professor of anatomy and an avid marine biologist
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HISTORY AND PHYSICAL Patient Name: Marilyn Sue Stone Patient ID: 116588 DOB: 01/24 Age: 50 Sex: F Room No.: 181A Date of Admission: 02/07/2012 Admitting Physician: Jessie D. Smith‚ MD of Orthopedics Admitting Diagnosis: Chronic Hip Pain HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: Patient is a candidate for a total right hip revision. She has 2 units of directed packed red blood cells. It is not autologous. She does had Hepatitis B. She has arthrogryposis. She had a right total hip replacement
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INDICATIONS • • • Type II distal radial shear fractures o Usually require open reduction and internal fixation Barton’s fractures are almost impossible to treat by closed means. Buttress plate fixation of volar Barton’s fractures is usually necessary. Type III compression injuries o Require operative treatment if Intraarticular damage is significant Radial shortening is severe o Fixation with multiple Kirschner wires or plates is often necessary‚ and cancellous bone grafting is
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Aneurysms were first described by the 16th century anatomist and physician Vesalius‚ who believed they were simply a widening of the vessel (Collin et al 2009). An abdominal aneurysm (AAA) is a condition in which the abdominal aorta (a large blood vessel that supplies blood to the abdominal‚ pelvis and the lower limbs) becomes large and ballooning leading to the development of several symptoms. The condition more often occurs in males compared to females. It occurs more frequently in above the age
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How does Laila feel about being pregnant with her second child (Zalmai) at the beginning of section 4? Why does she feel this way? What does she contemplate about? Laila grows up with the constant feeling that her mother is very caught up with Laila’s brothers’ lives‚ and lacks the playing role of a mother in Laila’s life. This is evident when Laila states‚ “People shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones.” Laila adores Aziza‚ her
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Third‚ considering that many animal tests have failed‚ there will be a huge number of animal lives killed for nothing. They suffer and are killed during experiments‚ which is really unethical and cruel. Bisgould states that “animal lives had been killed by carbon dioxide asphyxiation‚ neck-breaking‚ decapitation‚ or other means”. They already suffer everything from testing with poisoning‚ burn skin‚ brain damage‚ and electronic shock. All suffering is not acceptable‚ even if it is in humans or animals
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