... in the practice of, for example, nursing Studies of ethical issuesin nursing, such as those contained in this book, have a vital role to play as nurse education and nursingpractice change in ... Ethical IssuesinNursing This book examines major ethical issuesinnursingpractice It eschews the abstract approaches of bioethics and medical ethics, and takes as its point of departure ... expelled Nursing education has always been more than a training in anatomy, physiology and nursing tasks—it has been an ideological preparation, even an indoctrination The fear is that nursing ethics,...
... Genetics innursing education Nursing Clinics of North America, 35, 795-805 Lashley, F R (2001) Genetics and nursing: The interface in education, research, and practice Biological Research in Nursing, ... and interpreting genetic counseling and testing information; supporting families when they are receiving counseling and making decisions; recognizing the possibility of a genetic component in ... providing any of the following in relation to genetic disorders and variations, many of which are extensions of usual nursing practice: direct genetic counseling; planning, implementing, administering,...
... appropriately inpractice Becoming competent in the use of genetic content begins innursing education programs It was with this in mind that this book, The Essentials of Clinical Genetics inNursing Practice, ... genetics Developing an individualized plan of care Reinforcing and interpreting genetic counseling and testing information Supporting families when they are receiving counseling and making decisions ... entire reading frame and can cause (1) changes in the amino acids inserted in the polypeptide chain after the shift, (2) premature chain termination, or (3) chain elongation, resulting in a defective...
... could include further benchmarking and industry-wide exercises, backtesting, profit and loss analysis and stress testing Range of practices and issuesin economic capital modelling 37 The final ... economic capital modelling and to the underlying building blocks Range of practices and issuesin economic capital modelling The final version of this document was published in March 2009 http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs152.htm ... based approach may create inconsistencies with business practices Range of practices and issuesin economic capital modelling The final version of this document was published in March 2009 http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs152.htm...
... Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and NursingPractice This page intentionally left blank introduction Reaching Out Without Being Pulled Down Remaining Passionate in the Fields of Medicine, ... is done is accomplished in the most effective way possible Overcoming Secondary Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and NursingPractice Stress in Medical and NursingPractice is designed with ... strengthening one’s inner life Finally, as the brief epilogue’s title (“Passionate Journeys”) indicates, this book is also about maintaining and increasing the passion one originally had for being...
... drink the night before and on the morning of surgery A short period of fasting and carbohydrate loading both help in maintaining patients’ nitrogen balance and reducing post-operative insulin ... resulting in failure to propel intestinal content through the gastrointestinal tract Symptoms associated with postoperative ileus include abdominal distension and bloating, nausea and/or vomiting, ... state of insulin resistance has been confirmed in several different types of stress, including burn injury, accident trauma, and sepsis During the 1990s studies of insulin resistance in elective...
... sustain the MS nursing role ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Nursing domains are considered the full range of nursingpractice that may be called into use to serve the MS patient and the family MS practice domains ... visualize MS attacks in the brain, including many that did not manifest symptoms In 1993, FDA approved Betaseron® (IFN-beta 1b) for relapsing remitting MS (R-R MS) 4 NURSINGPRACTICEIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: ... others, including the responsibility to preserve integrity and safety, to maintain competence, and to continue personal and professional growth The nurse participates in establishing, maintaining,...
... drink the night before and on the morning of surgery A short period of fasting and carbohydrate loading both help in maintaining patients’ nitrogen balance and reducing post-operative insulin ... resulting in failure to propel intestinal content through the gastrointestinal tract Symptoms associated with postoperative ileus include abdominal distension and bloating, nausea and/or vomiting, ... state of insulin resistance has been confirmed in several different types of stress, including burn injury, accident trauma, and sepsis During the 1990s studies of insulin resistance in elective...
... in the context of ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... results in the infant becoming involved in a growing number and variety of social relationships In summary, none of the views discussed above provides an adequate account of moral standing In looking ... I 37 G E N ER IC ISSU ES IN P R E G N A N C Y Multicultural issuesin maternal–fetal medicine Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten 39 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issuesin screening and therapeutic research...
... encrypted messages being exchanged Such information could be useful to the attacker as it can reveal useful information in guessing the nature of the information being exchanged [2,3] In general, passive ... inserting a record in a file Interception This is an attack on the confidentiality of the network such as wiretapping or eavesdropping to capture data in a network Eavesdropping is easy in a wireless ... eavesdropped from outside the building where the network is operating In most wireless networks, there is a kind of link level ciphering done by the MAC entities Jamming Interruption of service attacks...
... interventions and cloning trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing speciWc inherited conditions and restricting access through guidelines that limit which ... pertinent Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in ... threatened by cloning In the words of the CCNE report, ‘reproductive cloning would inaugurate a new mode of Wliation, an individual born by cloning would be both a descendant and a twin of an adult’...
... certainty Before the issue of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment can be considered, the present condition of the infant must be assessed in the Ethical issuesin withdrawing ... termination is often now a logical and legitimate choice for the parents ∑ The third area in which these issues arise are the term babies who are Ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining ... be severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treatment...
... Opinion in Infectious Diseases 12: 21–6 UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998) Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in ... discussed in less than Wve minutes They point out the conXicts for the health professionals in providing an ‘ideal’ pre-test counselling practice with ‘the time and cost constraints of busy practices ... least in resource-rich countries) since 1994, anonymous antenatal testing inexorably continues in the UK and in several other developed countries (Nicoll et al., 1998) This may be justiWed in countries...
... moral autonomy Instead we might face ‘egoism’, ‘social alienation’, ‘moral indiVerence’ or even ‘moral incapacity’ within such a culture All in all, I claim that the main problem in Wnding global ... not incompatibility between universalist and relativist reasoning or between individualist and collective ethical positions per se First, within Multicultural issuesin maternal–fetal medicine individualist ... that a woman’s rights and interests (in remaining free from outside interference and control) should have priority At other times the child’s rights and interests in having a decent quality of...
... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p 1) At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... specialized training in infertility treatment can and prescribe infertility drugs without utilizing techniques that would minimize the risk of high-order multiples Whether administered by generalists ... to ‘termination’ Although ‘termination’ is the more honest description, a fair and adequate deWnition of the procedure needs to include the aim of maintaining the pregnancy by preserving some...
... to be evaluated in terms of the quality of the additional information obtained and the costs involved in obtaining it It should also be noted that collecting that information in person or over ... the customer is involved in an ongoing relationship with the agency The use of a mail procedure can increase this feeling of anonymity We intentionally avoided using identifying information on ... categories We also needed to keep in mind the goals of our two sponsors We decided to ask questions about all of the aspects involved in the process of obtaining and using products and services We...
... technological advancements in digital circuit and VLSI design have spurred an increase in the range of new adaptive filtering applications in fields ranging from biomedical engineering to wireless communications ... structure in Fig 20.5 that has a lossless mapping T in its feedforward path and an arbitrary mapping F in its feedback path The input/output signals of interest are denoted by {x, y, r, v, e} In this ... sections of this chapter, we discuss the combined issues of robustness and convergence from a deterministic standpoint In particular, the following issues are discussed: • We show that each step...
... requires more information than is typically available inpractice Modeling criteria, such as Akaike’s Information Criterion [18] and minimum description length (MDL) [19] could be used in this situation ... can draw the following two conclusions regarding this quantity: • The misadjustment increases as the step size is increased • The misadjustment increases as the filter length is increased Both results ... the amplifier gains within the system can be increased [10] In this application, the input signal to the adaptive filter consists of samples of bandlimited speech It has been shown in experiments...