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The Legal and Ethical Imperative of Explicit Consent in Intimate Medical Procedures

AIHC

Baptist Medical Center, the court upheld a hospitals decision to prevent male nurses from being assigned to labor and delivery units. 10] Further, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) states that Sexual boundary violations result in significant and enduring harm to patients. [11] Voices in Bioethics , 9.

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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

These contraindications should be crafted by multi-disciplinary associations, including physicians, nursing, palliative care, legal experts and ethicists, rooted in evidence, and designed to advance equity. This approach could rely on data from the best available meta-analyses, disease-specific scoring tools, and expert opinion.

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Is There an Easy-Button for AI In Healthcare Team Well-Being? Exploring a New PC with Embedded AI

Health Populi

The table from Deloitte’s report details workflows for nurses with the opportunity for automation – and time saving. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter. The report calls out the link between staffing shortages, workforce burnout, and lack of trust in leadership.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?” Dowling asked, something I’m charged to think about a lot in my scenario planning work. “What do we mean by ambulatory and outpatient care? What is the doctor of the future?

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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home. Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home.

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How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024

Health Populi

Here’s where technology can help scale the precious human resources that are physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and other trained clinicians whose well-being has eroded starting before the pandemic.

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Most Americans Are Curious and Hopeful About Genetics Research, But Privacy-Concerned

Health Populi

Using doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and other health practitioners in that education will be one tactic that can help bolster genetics literacy. As personalized medicine gets ever more personal, this will be so important to engage people in their health in the 2020s and beyond.

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