Preventive medicine

In this final paper, we were asked to look at and answer three questions, to the best of our knowledge, as it pertains to current and future aspects of how the ever growing world of informatics and the dynamic field of complex information gathering will affect nursing as we move forward. • What influence does informatics have in nursing? Informatics is something that will influence nurses across the broad as it is more and more interrogated into medical facilities. This dynamic way of…

The Ethics of Relationships between Physicians and Pharmaceuticals Valencia Cave, Holly Costanzo, Sean McCart, Josh Mosholder Towson University Dr. Michael Kim is new to the profession of being a doctor. He is a hard working pediatrician with the health of his patients at the front of his mind. But when a pharmaceutical company, Apativ, come to him with a new drug, Paxaflora, that could save a patient’s life (yet has possible side effects), he is at an impasse. The pharmaceutical gives him gifts…

Article: Semaan, Gaby, and Kasumi Yamazaki. 2015. “The Relationship Between Global Competence and Learning Motivation: An Empirical Study in Critical Language Classrooms”, Foreign Language Annals, vol. 48, Iss. 3, pp. 511-520. Summary: This article studies how the global influences of different countries are related to the learning of these countries’ language, in the classrooms of the United States. The researchers believed that there was relationship between global competence and language…

The Institution of Medicine has proven that marijuana can treat a variety of symptoms and illnesses (et al). Some of the symptoms that can be treated are “nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and pain” (et al). According to the Institution of Medicine there is a small population of people that prescription medicine has no effect on (et al). Those individuals should be able to be treated with marijuana. Then again, any…

Example 2: Non-Value Added Improvements Customer services or manufacturing processes have always been demonstrated as relatively slow when providing a tangible product to consumers. And there is no better example of similarities to manufacturing in healthcare than a clinical laboratory. Leisurely practices are prone to poor healthcare value which drives down patient satisfaction and drives up costs, hence affecting an entities profitable margin. Laboratory experts can define two phases of…

Three of us visited Michiana Behavioral Health Center or MBHC in Plymouth. Locating a facility proved an easy process but receiving an interview took more time. The facility lacks efficiency in returning phone calls. The Clinical Director, Kim and a staff member, Ron obtained their Masters in Social Work or MSW and Licensed Clinical Social Worker or LCSW among more licenses. The clinical director stated that she supervised programs, activities, and education. She informed us about a…

In our western communities, statistics have been offered which account for one person in four dying of cancer and one in four of heart disease. If these figures are accurate, the other half of our population is left to account for all the kidney failures, contagious diseases, arthritis, respiratory problems and other innumerable diseases suffered by so many. To this, we must add the deaths from accidents and now the horrifying forecasts that another one in four of the total population is…

life from its most basic form to complex organisms. This interest led me to pursue a degree in Human Biology, in which I learned that medicine is a combination of multiple fields that I already enjoyed learning about. Each subsequent class began to fill in parts of the larger medical puzzle, further increasing my interest in what is yet to be discovered in medicine. Consequently, I pursued a laboratory research position during my sophomore year, studying the effects of air pollutants on asthma…

Case Study: Enjoy Your Life 1. Why do you think health care providers often struggle in the transition from provider to patient? What might prevent them from seeking out care? Since Christiane is a well-educated clinician and works in the emergency room. She is familiar with reporting diagnoses and bad outcomes to patients. She also provides discharge instructions to the patients telling them the importance of following up on their lab draws and office visits. Although she expresses the…

save his life. I watched mesmerized as the resident opened up his chest in order to get control of the bleeding. Even though the procedure was unsuccessful and the patient eventually expired, it was a great learning experience for everyone involved. Medicine is such an interesting field because it is constantly changing and adapting to new information that is discovered and there are always learning opportunities. When I was in kindergarten, I always told people I wanted to become…