Health Care Professionals Denise Brinson Dr. Manuel Johnican Health Services Organizations HAS 500 007 May 30‚ 2011 Health Care Professionals 1. Identify and describe three reasons there may be a physician shortage rather than a surplus in the United States. One reason for shortage is widespread dissatisfaction‚ particularly in managed care. Both physicians and patients feel there is a limit on choice. “Medicine’s distaste of tightly controlled reimbursement and of non-physicians’
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Ethical Standards and Codes Stephenie Carter‚ Sundee Johnson‚ Saroja Nimmagadda‚ Selma Pasagic University of Phoenix Ethical Standards and Codes Ethics to some is an intuition of what is right or wrong‚ and to others it is right or wrong defined by laws‚ rules‚ codes‚ or culture standards. Ethical standards and codes are essential in the professional world‚ especially in a clinical setting. Ethics guide reactions and interactions from which ethical decisions are made. The purpose of this
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Components of Professional Appearance July 23‚ 2012 Abstract Business dress‚ personal grooming‚ body language‚ and attitude are components of a person’s professional appearance. These things can serve as forms of nonverbal communication and send messages to others about an individual. Before a person ever speaks a word‚ typically others around them can make judgments and form opinions based on the subtle messages provided by that person’s appearance. These components largely influence how
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Helping Professional I am currently a Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician working in a hospital setting; going on 14 years. Dialysis technicians work with people whose kidneys no longer work properly or at all. I operate machines that remove wastes‚ salt‚ and extra water from patients’ blood while keeping safe levels of certain chemicals. Dialysis patients generally are on the machine for about four hours‚ three times a week. My job as a technician is to prepare patients for dialysis
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STATEMENT OF ETHICAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IMA STATEMENT OF ETHICAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Members of IMA shall behave ethically. A commitment to ethical professional practice includes: overarching principles that express our values‚ and standards that guide our conduct. PRINCIPLES IMA’s overarching ethical principles include: Honesty‚ Fairness‚ Objectivity‚ and Responsibility. Members shall act in accordance with these principles and shall encourage others within their organizations to adhere
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR NURSING PRACTICE Answer all the questions comprehensively. 1. All nurses have a conceptual model for nursing practice. From the perspective that a nurse needs a clear conceptual model of nursing as a basis for nursing process‚ identify components of any concepts of nursing that you could use in implementing the nursing process in your area of responsibility. Explain your answer. 2. Enumerate at least three (3) health promoting behavior in which you do
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A Mini-Course in Ethics The Ethical Question is the question of the morality of free and responsible human conduct. It is the question of right‚ of wrong‚ and of duty‚ in man’s conscious and deliberate activity. The department of philosophy which answers this question is called Moral Philosophy or Ethics. This science grows out of the rest of philosophy. For when we have a philosophical grasp of the possibility of achieving certitude and of right formulas for reasoning out truth‚ then we are
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Chapter 1 Nursing Images throughout History 1) The angle of mercy 2) The handmaiden 3) The battle-ax 4) The naughty nurse 5) The military image A. Nurses on the battlefield Hospitalers – specialized soldiers who at the end of battle returned to the outposts to care for the sick and injured Army nursing service – organize nurses and hospitals and coordinate supplies for the soldiers during the Civil War Clara Barton a. Provided care in tents set up close to the fighting b. Did not discriminate
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Standards of Practice‚ Laws and Rules Sabrina Sibert Ohio University Standards of Practice‚ Laws and Rules The purpose of this paper is to identify the legal aspects of nursing‚ in laid in accordance to the scope of practice‚ and the standards of care registered nurses (RN) are held accountable for. I will attempt to give a prospective of the American Nurses Association (ANA)‚ scopes and standards of practice and Michigan Nursing Associations (MNA)‚ as it relates‚ the relevant laws to individual
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The nursing process is described as being an individualised problem solving approach in which patients receive nursing care. The nursing process consists of four distinct phases‚ each having a discreet role in the process‚ theses phases of the process are: assessment‚ planning‚ intervention and evaluation. (Oxford Dictionary of Nursing 2003) It is important that the four stages of the process from assessment to evaluation are carried out sequentially because each phase follows logically from
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