Entries by Daphne Hanson

Physician Assistant

You have just hired a new employee, Bill Russo, as a Physician Assistant in a busy Emergency Room. As you look through his medical form given to you by HR, you notice that Bill has rehysiciancently been diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, but he did not discuss this with you during his interview or with HR […]

Urinary and endocrine systems

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers. Practice Let’s practice at adding suffixes to the root words for the […]

Operating room

3 – OPERATIVE REPORT (13 errors) PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Lesion, left upper eyelid, rule out basil cell carcinoma. POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Lesion, left upper eyelid, rule out basal cell carcinoma. NAME OF PROCEDURE: Excisional biopsy, lesion left upper eyelid. ANESTHESIA: Focal. COMPLICATIONS: None. INDICATIONS: This 77—year—old male patient has had a recurrent lesion in this area. Consent […]

Health unit

Imagine you are a supervisor on a health unit, and you have an employee constantly complaining about things that are difficult for you as the supervisor to control, such as staffing and wages. The employee is known for being very negative on the unit, often upsets staff, and is clearly negatively affecting morale. What do […]

Epidemiological and vital statistic data

Review HealthyPeople 2020 overarching goals and objectives/topics. Pick one of the topics and explain what epidemiological and vital statistic data need to be collected in order to plan a community outreach hospital-based program to meet one of the HealthyPeople overarching goals.  Provide an explanation of why you chose that topic and the specific data to collect. […]

Melatonin gummy

Part 6. Even more 2×2 Practice! 13. A research study is assessing the associations between having kids take a melatonin gummer before bedtime and whether or not the Outcome. the parents say the kids had a good night’s sleep. They enrolled a total of 600 kids, 25% of which took a melatonin gummy before Positive […]

Customer service training

As the Director of Quality & Patient Safety at a mid-sized community hospital, I wish to see improvement in patient satisfaction. I have identified a brief customer service training being used at other hospitals and I wish to test its effectiveness with front-line staff who interact directly with patients and their caregivers to see if […]

Electronic scanning machine

14. Dr. Pimple Popper has developed a new 1-min electronic scanning machine to look for skin cancer in a large age 55+ community in Orange County. California. She wants to know how her scanner CUmpm es [0 a physical. examination and diagnosis. To test this, she developed a protocol that asked community residents to walk […]

Pivotal scene

) This movie has won awards for its portrayal of alcoholism, recovery, and relapse. Pick one scene in the movie that you think is a pivotal scene that the director used to make us think about alcoholism. Why do you think this is an important scene in this movie?   2. In the SAME scene […]

Cybersecurity strategy

Concluding Paragraph: Overall, the literature suggests that a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy is needed to mitigate the risks posed by cyber-attacks on healthcare delivery and patient safety. The articles reviewed suggest a range of potential solutions, including employee training, network security, incident response plans, and security measures such as encryption and multi-factor authentication. While there is […]