and women and for all people involved in the delivery of health care. Sexual harassment is a type of sex discrimination. It is the unwelcome physical, visual, or verbal behavior of a sexual nature that is pervasive or severe and creates a hostile working environment or affects the working conditions of a person. Conduct is not termed as sexual harassment when it is welcome. It is therefore important for individuals working in health care institutions to inform the harasser that the behavior makes them
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psychological effects such as anxiety and depression, with long-term implications on the patient’s recovery and quality of life. Accordingly, it has been suggested that burn patients should undergo both long and short term systematic mental health care, in order to minimize and avert these psychopathological responses. Moreover, psychological interventions helps burn patients and staff to reduce burdensome as well as decline depressive symptoms. Notably, dissatisfaction tendencies with post-burn
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The Disease of Drug Addiction Joanne Frye HSER 340 Abstract Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive seeking and use of addictive substances despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her. Introduction Dramatic advances in science over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain. (Leshner, 1997) It is considered a
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Methods, Characteristics, Structure and Early History of Attitude Measurement Scales Abstract: Measurement of attitudes is beneficial in various aspects of day to day life. Business, social and government research often rely on the measurement of respondents attitudes to guide decision and policy making. Specific research designs and methods are required to ensure useful and valid quantitative data are end results of attitude research projects. Ground breaking researchers in the field
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SAFETY NET SPECIALTY CARE PROGRAM BACKGROUND Safety Net primary care providers are the primary source of care for uninsured and the underinsured patients. When specialty care is needed these services are often unavailable to them. Very few communities have addressed the lack of specialty care issue outside of simply calling on specialist to voluntarily provide direct care to safety net patients. In March of 2013 KPCO implemented the Safety Net Specialty Care Program to help address the significant
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Assessment Assessment is the most important part of care planning and delivery. It includes areas such as health and health needs, daily living skills, activity programmes, mobility, mental health, risks to the client, finance, respite, social events/outings, support requirements, spiritual needs and, possibly, accommodation issues (Department of Health, 2000b;Sox, 2004a). As a start, a background check is needed to be able to assess the situation of the patient. Our patient is conscious but was
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discussion was based on the statement “The United States should not re-licensed Nuclear Power Plants as their licenses expire and move away from Nuclear Power as soon as possible”. Our class was divided into two sides based on our positions on the continuum. In our discussion, one of the arguments expressed from the agreeing side of the main statement was that Nuclear Power Plants are prime targets for terrorism. A few of those classmates mentioned how terrorists can take advantage of the powerful radioactive
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be utilized at all acute care and long term care centers at the local, regionally, nationally and international levels, the exemplar used for this paper is a medical unit in an acute care hospital. ICNP has led to a large database that validates nursing specific diagnoses, interventions and outcomes. It is cross-referenced with different nursing classification systems to compile common information across the continuum. A nurse in the medical unit is able to utilize a care plan that is formulated
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Abstract Assisted living is a fairly new and unique part of the long term care continuum of services. The goal of assisted living is to maximize the independence of older adults while living in a homelike environment. This paper will provide an overview of assisted living facilities including the number of facilities and residents, costs, services, and growth expectations. Challenges with oversight and regulations will be discussed as well as solutions to the problem. Challenges and solutions
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create a health care system that can provide care throughout the continuum. Capital investments the system has acquired include primary care physician providers as well as three smaller hospitals to provide acute care to their immediate communities. The main campus houses a tertiary care hospital, a rehab hospital, a children’s hospital, a psychiatric hospital, and a long-term acute care hospital. Values of the hospital system include visibility in the community as a leader in health care providing
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