Hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor The purpose of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is to promote international educational and cultural exchange to develop mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries. J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Overview [1] ● J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Introduction and Basic Concepts [2] ● Inviting a J-1 Exchange Visitor – Information for Faculty [...

Hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor The purpose of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is to promote international educational and cultural exchange to develop mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries. J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Overview [1] ● J-1 Exchange Visitor Program: Introduction and Basic Concepts [2] ● Inviting a J-1 Exchange Visitor – Information for Faculty [...

Recently, new staffing rules for neonatal nurses in intensive care units (ICU) were issued in Germany, using categories of care of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine as blueprint. Neonates on intensive care require a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:1, on intensive surveillance (high dependency care) of 1:2. No requirements exist for special care, transitional care, and pediatric ICU pati...

Coercive mechanical restraint (MR) in psychiatry constitutes the perhaps most extensive exception from the common health law requirement for involving patients in health care decisions and achieving their informed consent prior to treatment. Coercive measures and particularly MR seriously collide with patient autonomy principles, pose a particular challenge to psychiatric patients' legal rights...

Concern about the behavioral effects of spaceflight can be traced back a half century to the earliest preparatory bioastronautics experiments in the mid-1 950s. A central focus of the first primate suborbital flights, as well as the orbital chimpanzee pretest flights of Project Mercury, was the effects of such stressful ventures on the learned performances of these space behavioral health pione...

A LTHOUGH THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, the major expansion of health insurance promulgated by the bill does not occur until 2014. At that time an estimated 23 million uninsured Americans with incomes below 133% of the federal poverty level will gain Medicaid. An additional 17 million persons will be eligible for subsidized coverage under a health insu...

BACKGROUND Agile software development gains requirements from the direct discussion with customers and the development staff each time, and the customers evaluate the appropriateness of the requirement. If the customers divide the complicated requirement into individual requirements, the engineer who is in charge of software development can understand it easily. This is called division of requi...

background: the advent of new technologies with widespread dissemination of information has caused a fundamental change in information and educational resources. on the other hand, selection of an appropriate and valuable source of information in the field of health education is essential. therefore, this study was designed and implemented with the objective of comparing health center’s staff o...