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Electronic Charting is a Must

By 2014, all healthcare records in the U.S. must be electronic, from thelargest teaching hospital, to the physician’s office with only one employee.Electronic health records (EHRs) are mandated by the American Recovery andReinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which is Public Law 111-5.The ARRA, or ‘Stimulus,’ as it is commonly called, covers a wide array ofissues in the country. One section of the Act, Title XIII,...

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RCN Advises Nurses Must Not Ignore Patient Requests for Assisted Suicide

This week in the UK, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)announced that nurses must engage in discussions of assisted suicide, if apatient broaches the subject.In the new RCN guide titled “When Someone Asks for Your Assistance toDie,” it is stated that although assisting suicide is still illegal in theUK, nurses must converse with dying patients who inquire about assisted suicidethrough a ‘non-judgmental assess...

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