conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

A thletic trainers, team physicians, physical therapists, coaches, and schools all face potential liability by providing medical coverage at athletic events. This article will focus on potential liability that may arise from high school athletic injuries. Common principles can be found among the laws of each state, but material differences exist in the decisions of the higher courts of each sta...

Background The effects of changes to resident physician duty hours need to be measureable. This time-motion study was done to record internal medicine residents' workflow while on duty and to determine the feasibility of capturing detailed data using a mobile electronic tool. Methods Junior and senior residents were shadowed by a single observer during six-hour blocks of time, covering all se...

JAVMA, Vol 231, No. 2, July 15, 2007 T issue of public health and veterinary emergency response has persisted from the 2001 outbreak of footand-mouth disease in the United Kingdom through the anthrax-laced letters of September 2001 and the 2002–2003 outbreak of exotic Newcastle disease in California. These have been reinforced by the threat of pandemic avian influenza and the pet strandings dur...

The purpose of medicine is to prevent illness, to cure disease, to relieve suffering and to maintain health. The duty of the physicians, of course, is to rescue life, to cure disease, to relieve suffering and to promote health. However, “birth, aging, sickness and death” are unavoidable path of human life. When a person has reached the end of his life, when death is impending, the duty of medic...