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    Just as cell phones today have the capability of sending text messages to one another, so do standard household phones. With this text messaging available, the hearing impaired can communicate just as any other. Technology has made it capable to transmit not just the spoken word, but also the written word through telephone lines. Now that television shows and movies are equipped with the technology to include closed captioning, the hearing-impaired can view them. Listening devices can now be…

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    Organizational Analysis. The Organizational Analysis unit of this paper provides the overview of the Baldridge Self ? Assessment questionnaire and the results that were gathered together by applying my knowledge about the Pep Boys company and company?s operations, strategy, politics, workforce, policies and etc. The purpose of this self-assessment is to ?evaluate organization?s processes, their impact on results, and the progress toward company?s goals and objectives.? (19) The questionnaire…

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    Contents 1.1 Introduction: 3 1.2. What Pokémon Go is? 3 1.2.1. How Pokémon Go is designed and implemented? 3 1.3. How did Nintendo brand get its fame? 4 2.1 Why did Pokémon Go get huge success? 6 3.1. Pokémon Go’s impact on Nintendo brand 7 4. Customer view on Pokémon Go: 9 5. Conclusion: 10 1.1 Introduction: 1.2. What Pokémon Go is? Pokémon GO is an amazing interactive and innovative idea in the world of game by Nintendo. It’s a gaming platform developed in July 6, 2016. This game uses…

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    Question 7 – Across more than one Learning Outcome (30 marks)- 1500 (a) identify, with justification, one significant employers’ liability risk facing the sports centre. (3)-150 Employee Slips & Trips in Restaurant - As the risk manager I would consider the risk of slips and trips of employees working within the premises, particularly the restaurant. Slips and trips are a big problem in catering areas, employees “working in kitchen and food service environments are more likely to be injured…

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    all health care facilities Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must recognize a patient’s advance directive, the facilities must ask every patient if they have an advance directive, and provide education to the patient informing them of their rights to communicate their wishes regarding future treatment. This includes if the patient wishes to refuse medical treatments. The main purpose of advance directives is to maintain the patient’s autonomy even after they are unable to communicate due to…

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    legal issues at the end-of-life (EOL). Masters (September 13, 2016) opened the discussion by asking the RN-BSN students, what would they do if the patient has an advance directive. This writer replied that if there is advance directive and it is within the patients’ possession, then the goal is to comply with patient wishes. Advance directives is a way an individual can express their preferences for care that they may need at EOL (Black, 2014). In addition McGowan (2011), states that since the…

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    1.) As a nursing assistant, I of course have heard of a medical directive. I have also had to follow the directions and wishes in the medical directives for the patients per their request. Because of my experience with advance directives, its makes me think of my own and what I would chose. 2.) Ultimately, people do not want to think about themselves dying. They may have a fear of the unknown, and they do not want to jinx themselves. Or, they just don’t want to face making the hard decision…

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    provide a brief analysis of the Theresa Schindler-Schiavo (A.K.A. Terri Schiavo) story and the use of advanced directives. This paper will summarize her controversial “Terri’s” story, define advanced directives as well as the scope in which they are used, and Theresa along with her husband could have benefited from an advanced directive. The primary focus is the proper use of advanced directives. Terri’s Story In February 1990, a then 26 year old Terri Schiavo suddenly collapsed in her Florida…

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    Advance Care Planning

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    awareness of advance care planning. My preceptor, who is also the director of nursing stated their facility had been going through a recent transition phase. Instead of being a primary long-term care unit, the patient acuity had changed and the nursing care was evolving to more med-surg based. As a result advance care planning was on the forefront due to end of life care no longer being eminent with their patients. Furthermore, the facility did not have a protocol or policy on advance care…

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    “Doctor Facilitated Denial: A Barrier to End-of-life Planning Among COPD Patients” by Lauren Seidman, examined the correlation between the motivation of COPD patients to pursue an Advanced Directive, and three factors which she hypothesized would impact that motivation. The three factors included: a) denial (either facilitated or refuted by doctors), b) patients’ self-perceived health, and c) patients’ trust in the information provided by the physicians.Seidman utilized data previously collected…

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