Research Letter | Infectious Diseases Comparison of Unsupervised Home Self-collected Midnasal Swabs With Clinician-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Denise J. McCulloch, MD, MPH; Ashley E. Kim, BS; Naomi C. Wilcox, MPH; Jennifer K. Logue, BS; Alex L. Greninger, MD, PhD; Janet A. Englund, MD; Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH Introduction Increased diagnostics […]

Question 1: Brittany Maynard was a terminally ill woman, suffering from inoperable brain cancer, who chose to take a fatal dose of barbiturates in the presence of her husband, her friend, and parents. She and her family moved to Oregon so, she can carry out her decision to end her life. Oregon passed the Death […]

Cross-Cultural Communication “Communication in health care is a complex issue. Language and cultural barriers complicate the situation. Language is the framework in which the world view of a culture is molded, and it describes the boundaries and perspectives of a cultural system. A language barrier disarms a communicant’s ability to assess meanings, intent, emotions, and […]

If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption? These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news […]

You have just been hired as a new Vice President of quality and safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare organization. Within your first month on the job, the national security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States, and your […]

Introduction Sustainable development is an basically ( socially and scientifically ) contested impression, because it is inherently complex, normative, subjective and equivocal ( Kasemir et al. , 2003 ) . Anthropogenic CO2 emanations have been turning approximately four times faster since 2000 than during the old decennary, and despite attempts to control emanations in a […]

Indicate who your audience is for the Policy Brief: Are you presenting this to local or national decision makers, health professionals, journalists, the general public, or more than one of them? Define the problem: Identify a health care policy or healthcare finance issue of interest to ARNPs that can be improved through a change in the policy.. […]

Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen has a stake in healthcare policy decisions. Hence, it is little wonder why healthcare items become such high-profile components of presidential agendas. It is also little wonder why they become such hotly debated agenda items. Consider a topic that rises to the presidential level. How did each of the […]

   Reflect      on the Resources related to digital information tools and technologies. Consider      your healthcare organization’s use of healthcare technologies to manage      and distribute information. Reflect      on current and potential future trends, such as use of social media and      mobile applications/telehealth, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled asset      tracking, or expert systems/artificial intelligence, and how they may […]

discussion of the difference between grant writing versus academic writing. Then write… 1. One paragraph describing a need in your school, work place, community, etc. for which you are asking for a $20,000 grant to address. Your paragraph is limited to 150 words. You must describe your need in detail and explain what you will […]