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Nowadays, the word “professionalism” is a popular issue at the leading edge of entire healthcare professions especially in the field of physiotherapy. It is presently one of the primary areas of interest as physiotherapy progresses to Vision 2020. Vision 2020 is the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) established target for the future in 2020. Healthcare…

According to the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (see Bossers, Kernaghan, Hodgins, Merla, O’Connor, Van Kessel, 1999, p.16-21), professionalism can be subdivided into three different sections. These include professional parameters, professional behaviours and values, as well as professional responsibilities. Professional parameters simply relate to the principles of ethical and lawful matters while professional behaviours and…

To: Texas State Senator Lois Kolkhorst – Chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services From: Ian Anderson Problem Statement Health care costs in Texas continue to rise at rates that will lead to painful cuts to health care or discretionary spending. These expenditures are costing Texas $42.9 billion per year, around 43% of the…

Abstract Obtaining healthcare can be seen as a hassle, often times one has to go to multiple locations to receive all of the care needed, each facility visited may have their own set of paperwork, rules and regulations, fees, business hours etc., making finding time to get proper care difficult which is why many people…

There are so many conflicting opinions on whether or not health care workers, especially nurses, should protect their licenses with professional liability insurance. While there is no right or wrong answer, there are more pros than cons to be covered by personal malpractice insurance. A few pro’s of having personal malpractice/liability insurance are: patients are…

PHS250: Reflective practice- Culture and Communication Part 1: Personal Experience of Australian Healthcare My personal experience with the Australian healthcare system stems from two main engagements. The first being my own personal history with migraines and the second being a carer to a close friend of mine who was terminally ill with lung cancer before…

Question 1: Legal Documentation Skills/Billing Codes Assignment OT Intervention Billing Category CPT Billing Code Justification Example: 20 reps of theraband exercise UE Therapeutic Exercise 97110 Theraband is a therapeutic exercise to improve UE strength Teaching client to use a reacher during dressing Therapeutic procedures: Self-care/home management 97535 Teaching the client use of AE (reacher) for…

Introduction As part of this communications portfolio is to discuss, explore and compile a report on a topic of our choice. This report will be about Crohn’s Disease. Terms of Reference In this report research was carried out on Crohn’s Disease. This report will explore and explain what the: Definition of Crohn’s Disease is. Types…

Critically appraise the diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Assess the value or quality of…. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affect more than 300,000 people in the UK (Fakhoury et al, 2014.) IBD is known as a chronic intestinal inflammation that is a result of host-microbial interactions (Fakhoury et al, 2014.) These diseases are autoimmune…

Crohns disease is a kind of lifestyle disease. Crohns disease is also known as regional enterities. It is a type of inflammatory bowel disease. Crohns disease is different with ulcerative colitis which is another common type of inflammatory bowel disease.The differences between the two illness is the area that affected in the gastrointestinal tract (GI…