The Situation/Challenge: Currently at the skilled nursing facility (SNF) where I work at, recruiting, hiring, and retaining registered nurses (RN), licensed vocational/ practical nurses (LVN/LPN), and certified nurse assistants (CNA) is difficult. The organizational challenge of high turnover affects quality of care for the residents…
Essays on Medicine
Variations of the Job Guarantee Program have been already employed in countries such as India, Argentina, South Africa, Bangladesh and Morocco as well as certain states in the US (T. Fullwiler and Meyeraan, 1082). Although this idea was propelled by American economists, it is said…
The aim of this paper is to identify the ethical agents that were involved in the Terri Schaivo case. What were the ethical principles that were considered and which ones were disregarded. What were the motivations that invoked the decisions that were made? It will…
According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition American Psychiatric Association (2013), it specified two major characteristics of impairment in autism spectrum disorder which are deficits in social interaction and social communication, restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities. Children with…
“I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.” Throughout history it has proven to be increasingly difficult not to be a hypocrite to…
Introduction Terri Schiavo, a 41-year-old woman from Florida who was in a persevering vegetative state for the 15 years before her death on Mar. 31, 2005. This case was at the focal point of a political, legitimate and media whirlwind over the evacuation of a…
Although occupation and occupational therapy were harshly questioned when it was first established, the occupation has grown to be an incredibly important aspect of occupational therapy. The main form of practice for occupational therapy is still through occupation-centered treatment because it has shown to be…
The strategic plan is used as a tool to organize healthcare management to coordinate an organizations strategic intent to their operational structure while ensuring the strengthening of the strategic goals in the healthcare industry. Ability Center of Occupational Therapy strives to provide high quality care…
Autism is prevalent neurodevelopmental developmental disorders characterized by core deficits in areas such as communication, social interaction, and restricted or repetitive stereotyped patterns of behaviors. These impairments are variable in range and in severity that affect the developmental skills in children. The exact cause of…
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a condition that affects multiple systems in the body and is a pleomorphic disease, meaning inflammation, antibody production and complement-fixing immune complex depositions causes damage to the bodies tissue. SLE is caused by one’s genetic factors that are activated by…
The arousal of Tuskegee Experiment is a widely condemned experiment during 1940 in Macon Country. It was a study that evidently shows an allegedly increasing of deliberate racism. According to some research; it’s like an epidemical disease on how we rationalize insufficient or invalid justification….
There have been notable, and some gruesome, scientific experimentations that have been conducted on humans that are dated as far back as the 1800s. It is not uncommon to wonder how human experimentation may be deemed ethical. Before the Nuremberg Trials, it was likely that…
Your genes hold the keys to how your body looks and works. They’re behind everything from your hair color to how you digest your food. So if something goes wrong with them, it can have far-reaching effects. People with Down syndrome are born with an…
As early as 1987, many authors have associated the terminology ‘cosmetic surgery tourism’ under the umbrella of medical, health and wellbeing tourism (Goodrich and Goodrich, 1987), (Resiman, 2010) and (Jones, 2011). Since then, it has been known as ‘aesthetic tourism’, ‘plastic surgery tourism’, ‘surgery tourism’…
Poliomyelitis, also known as Polio is a contagious viral illness that, in severe cases, destroys nerve cells in the spinal cord. This causes muscle to waste away and cause permanent paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death. In most cases people who are affected with the…
