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NovoSci (The Woodlands, Texas) reported last month that the Washington DC VA Medical Center (DCVAMC) is the first VA center and regional Washington cardiac surgery center to be actively using its new miniaturized bypass technology, the Ready System 200, on all types of cardiac surgery procedures, performing more than a dozen cases in the past two months.
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The purpose of a learning assessment is to learn how best to teach the patient or family. Therefore, the information gathered must be used to tailor the teaching to the learner.
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The techniques used by clinical educator Vicky Becherer make her teaching more effective and improve classroom instruction whether the students are health care providers or patients and community members.
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Before clinical staff at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle provide care to a patient from another culture, they consult the hospitals Culture Clues, one-page laminated sheets with key points about a particular culture and how its members generally perceive health care.
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Health care providers cannot begin to educate patients and families until they determine what patients already know, how they like to learn, and if there are any factors that will interfere with the teaching or learning, says the patient and family education coordinator at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Medical City Dallas Hospital staff tailor their discharge planning and education around the patient and familys cultural beliefs, particularly when end-of-life issues are involved.
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By using the hospitals on-site interpreters when they make assessments of patients who dont speak English, staff at Boston Medical Center are able to start the discharge plan early in the stay and identify resources in the community that provide services for people of different religions and ethnic backgrounds.
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In a medical health alert issued Feb. 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) issued these recommendations for providers in New York City, where its believed a three-drug class resistant HIV (3DHR HIV) strain may become more prevalent.
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President George W. Bush expressed support for the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act in his State of the Union address, but his budget for the 2006 fiscal year provided mostly flat funding. AIDS advocates say cuts in prevention activities are a sign that trouble is ahead for state budgets and AIDS service organizations struggling to provide prevention, care, and other services to growing HIV populations.
