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Nurses, like the rest of the world's population are increasingly participating in online social media. Nurses must be mindful to avoid situations that could ultimately compromise past, present and future patient health and wellbeing, as well as their professional identities and reput...
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PMID: 21841689
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We are also permitting employees to substitute up to 26 weeks of accrued or accumulated sick leave for unpaid Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for a seriously injured or ill covered servicemember, as authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, inclu...
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PMID: 21128372
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Expression of sexuality is a lifelong need and a basic human right, yet little is known about how staff in aged care facilities approach and manage the sexuality needs of residents. Fifty-two staff members from the rest home component of aged care facilities in one District Health Board completed a...
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PMID: 21188913
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The papers in this special thematic issue of HEC Forum critically and carefully explore key issues at the intersection of patient privacy and commodification. For example, should hospitals be required to secure a person's consent to any possible uses to which his discarded body parts might be put af...
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PMID: 20799055
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This paper analyzes court rulings on tissue samples as property and critiques objections that have been raised to the recognition of DNA samples as personal property. The cases are: Moore v. Regents of the University of California (1988, 1990), Greenberg v. Miami Children's Research Institute (2003)...
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PMID: 20737193
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I will indicate how privacy as life, liberty, property defines such a dynamic solution to the problems of commodification of human bodily material and slippery information in insurance markets....
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PMID: 20799054
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Since government and private industry have instituted urine drug testing to ensure a drug-free work force, an industry dedicated to subverting the results of those tests has developed. This article describes that industry, the types of products it markets, and efforts to curb the sale of those produ...
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PMID: 20862879
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We are indeed connected to each other. But what is the phenomenology of this connection? Technologies of expression such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other social networking technologies increasingly become like Momus windows of Greek mythology, revealing one's innermost thoughts for all to se...
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PMID: 20335498
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A "bed pod" featuring "modesty screens", enhanced acoustics, multi-level light, and extra storage; quickly erectable washroom "pods" for improving patient convenience and ward layout with minimal disruption; a "one-size-fits-all" hospital gown claimed to provide a more comfortable fi...
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PMID: 20527593
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Staying connected virtually has become a mainstay of modern American culture. Twitter has become the "front porch" of the 21st century. This column explores this growing social media tool and its use in health care and education.
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PMID: 20481418
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As direct-to-consumer genetic testing becomes more available, a diverse group of consumers, including those with limited health literacy, may consider testing. In light of concerns raised about direct-to-consumer genetic testing, this study sought to critically examine whether the informational cont...
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PMID: 20386454
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The results suggest that this patient population may not be receiving a complete sexual health assessment. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: Nurses in the sample believed that sexuality was not too private an issue to discuss with their patients and claimed to understand how disease and treatment may affect...
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PMID: 20439204
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I address this issue by considering the possibility that CCTV might be seen by some homeless men and women as offering: a) a measure of enhanced security for those living in the streets and in shelters, and; b) to the extent that security is conceived of as a social good, the receipt of which marks...
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PMID: 20377597
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Respecting privacy and patients' satisfaction are amongst the main indicators of quality of care and one of the basic goals of health services. This study, carried out in 2007, aimed to investigate the extent to which patient privacy is observed and its correlation with patient satis...
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PMID: 20185441
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Denmark is one of the world's leading countries in the use of health care technology. Virtually all primary care physicians have electronic medical records with full clinical functionality. Their systems are also connected to a national network, which allows them to electronically send and receive c...
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PMID: 20232528
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this interim final rule with a request for comments to adopt an initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria, as required by section 3004(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act. This interim final rul...
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PMID: 20344863
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Observational data were recorded from 597 pharmacy staff-patient interactions in 282 pharmacies across New York State. Of the 597 interactions, 167 occurred while a second patient was within 6 ft. Of the 282 pharmacies, pharmacy staff-patient conversations were audible to observers more than 6 ft aw...
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PMID: 20452909
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OBJECTIVE: To provide a brief history of Facebook and online social networking and discuss how it has contributed and can contribute in the future to a paradigm change in social communications. SUMMARY: When student pharmacists complete school and enter practice, they encounter enhanced expectations...
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PMID: 20452920
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Ethnography is at "risk" within health and social care and ethnographic "managerial" research is likely to be unduly restricted and potentially threatened. The evidence suggests that some employees either did not wish to be protected or, conversely, felt compelled to reveal their identities, raising...
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PMID: 20698403
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The purpose of this focused ethnographic inquiry was to examine South Asian immigrant women's experiences and perceptions of respect within health professional-client relationships in the context of a Canadian outpatient treatment clinic. Characteristics of respect described by 11 women interviewed...
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PMID: 21171542
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We argue that as another manifestation of the individual, an individual's avatar should have rights analogous to those of a biological body. Our strategy will be to show that (1) possessing a physical body is not a necessary condition for possessing rights; (2) rights are already extended to represe...
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PMID: 20627858
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The NHS is committed to delivering privacy and dignity to all patients. To this end, the Department of Health has implemented initiatives to eliminate mixed sex wards. Salford Royal Foundation Trust is committed to three guiding principles of clean, safe and personal care. In April 2008, the trust l...
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PMID: 20608439
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We review privacy-related problems associated with data sharing for clinical research from technical and policy perspectives. We investigate existing policies for secondary data sharing and privacy requirements in the context of data derived from research and clinical settings. In particular, we foc...
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PMID: 20051768
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Major advances in the testing of oral fluid (e.g., saliva) may lead to the diagnosis and treatment of previously undiagnosed conditions and may enable dentists to manage oral disease more effectively. Such use of another body fluid, blood, is already well established. Blood is a complex tissue that...
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PMID: 20719097
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Today's security professional must appreciate the potential landmines in any investigative effort and work collaboratively with others to minimize liability risks, the author points out. In this article he examines six civil torts that commonly arise from unprofessionally planned or poorly executed...
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PMID: 20873494
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State laws modeled on Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California require psychotherapists to warn potential victims or law enforcement when treating dangerous patients who make serious threats of harm to another person. In practice, many psychotherapists advise their patients who make such...
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PMID: 19938380
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