Questions
Consider the very famous case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Research Study. Answer the following question. What...
Consider the very famous case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Research Study. Answer the following question.
What kind of a difference would it have made in these men’s lives if they had participated with informed consent?
Why should the studies have been discontinued after the discovery of penicillin?
In the previous chapter, we learned that ethical medical behavior should always be governed by the principles of autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. How did this study measure up to these three principles?
How fair do you think the settlements were?
Topic: HIPAA Real-Life Case
A medical assistant is at the local store and notices a patient who had been in the office that morning. The patient is with her husband, and the medical assistant greets the patient and congratulates her on the “good news.” The patient is upset, and the medical assistant realizes not only that the patient had not yet informed her husband of the pregnancy but also that the husband had previously undergone a vasectomy and was not the father.
What could happen to the medical assistant for this incident?
Would this be considered a mistake rather than an actual violation of HIPAA? Explain your answer.
Would the employer be responsible for the medical assistant’s violation?
Scenarios
1) A patient is diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and she finds her son and daughter disagreed on who should provide her care. What if she disagrees with both their ideas? What should she do to prepare for the time when she will no longer be able to make her own healthcare decisions?
2) During an office visit, Mr. H, who smokes cigarettes, is diagnosed with bronchitis. His physician wants to prescribe Levaquin because this is usually the best antibiotics treatment, and it is especially most effective for smokers with bronchitis. However, the physician knows that most insurance companies will not cover this expensive antibiotics. What should the physician do?
3) A coworker has been coming into work repeatedly late and seems very preoccupied with issues she is having outside of work. Her performance has been unusually poor and she is acting in a rude and unacceptable way towards the patients; yesterday she told you that she had just been given a verbal warning. Now, this morning, she is late again and has called to ask you to cover for her until she can report to work. How do you handle the continued behavior that you are witnessing?
4) Several coworkers are in the lunchroom on their lunch break. Sam and his friend George are having a rather loud conversation about the party they attended over the past weekend. George relates a joke that he heard at the party and it is a very sexually oriented joke with several words that offend Sally ( who overhears the conversation). Sally is upset and makes a complaint to them about the nature of the conversation that they are having and how it is offensive to her. George and Sam tell her that she is overreacting and dismiss her complaint.
Is she considered sexual harassment?
Can any actions be taken to follow up on this incident?
Is Sally just overreacting to the situation?
In: Nursing
Case Scenario: Mr. Wu’s Story (adapted from Burkhardt, Nathaniel & Walton, 2018, p. 118) Read the...
Case Scenario: Mr. Wu’s Story (adapted from Burkhardt, Nathaniel & Walton, 2018, p. 118)
Read the following case scenario, then apply your understanding of values clarification by answering the questions in the graded Week 4 Discussion Board forum called Personal Values Clarification.
82-year-old Mr. Wu has been hospitalized with a stroke that has left him severely incapacitated - he can transfer to a wheelchair with assistance, but needs help for toileting, feeding, bathing and dressing. He has expressive aphasia so it is difficult for him to speak clearly and it is uncertain how much he understands in a conversation. Prior to his stroke, the widowed Mr. Wu lived with his daughter Sophia and her family (husband Marc and their three small children). He was a supportive and helpful member of the family, providing occasional child-care and helping with small household tasks.
The physician feels Mr. Wu is ready for discharge and is being pressured by the hospital administration to free up bed-space. The physician has suggested that Mr. Wu go to a nursing home and she has asked the nurses to try to talk the family into it.
Sophia has told you on a previous occasion that she feels she should take him home with her because her faith and culture say she should provide care for her parents. She is the eldest in the family and her siblings live far away, so she feels it is her duty to care for their father. But the Wu family house is small and Mr. Wu can no longer manage stairs, so they would need to add a bathroom to the ground floor. Sophia also has concerns because she works full time. Sophia has considered quitting her job in order to care for her father, but the family needs her income because her husband’s work is seasonal. They cannot afford to hire a caregiver during the day when Sophia is at work.
You overhear Sophia and her husband in the hallway outside Mr. Wu’s room. Her husband is speaking very firmly: “I just don’t see how we could possibly do it. It is too much for you to take on with all the other things you do. And I wouldn’t know how to take care of him. Looking after the old folks was not something we did in my family.”
Sophia replies, “I don’t know what to say. I just want to do what’s best for Dad. When he came to live with us I promised him – we promised him - that he’d always have a place with us.”
Marc replies, “But he doesn’t remember that promise. He doesn’t remember anything.”
The Discussion Board questions about this scenario are as follows:
- What are your own values in this situation? (Imagine this were your own family.)
- How might your own values affect your actions as a nurse?
- What might the patient’s and family’s values be in this situation?
- Is there a values conflict here? If so, how might you begin to resolve this conflict?
In: Nursing
There are three distinct areas you need to research and focus on to get your final...
There are three distinct areas you need to research and focus on to get your final done properly:
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Process command line arguments to get the names of input and output files from the user using Elipse
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Read and write information from and into the disk files
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Parse the data read from input file, store in a variable, process it and then print it
on the screen and into the output file.
Here are couple of exercises, which will help you in writing code for the above problems.
9.1 Write a class named Exercise5. Your main method’s header looks like this:
public static void main(String[] args)
where, args is the String array of command line arguments passed by
JVM. Write a
method processCLArguments() like this:
public static void processCLArguments(String[] args) if the command args contains less than two strings, it displays the message like this:
Usage: java Exercise5 inputFile outputFile
If the arguments contains input and output file names it displays the message like this:
Input will be read from: input_final.txt Output will be written into: output_final.txt
9. 2 Write another static method called processInputOutputFiles(), which takes a String array as arguments which has names of input and output files.
public static void processInputOutputFiles(
String[] args)
It reads the content of the input file whose name is in the first element of args String array with the scores for unknown number of students like the following. The format of the data is, name of a student, followed by comma-separated scores of quiz1, quiz2, quiz3, quiz4, midterm 1, midterm 2 and final for that student:
Thui Bhu, 100, 90, 80, 100, 89, 99, 88
Ariana B. Smith, 90, 90, 100, 100, 99, 100, 95
//more students data
Read each line (scores of a student) at a time, and
a) display the output on the screen like this:
Student #: 1 Thui Bhu, 100, 90, 80, 100, 89, 99, 88
Student #: 2 Ariana B. Smith, 90, 90, 100, 100, 99, 100, 95
b) and print the output on the disk file whose name is given in the second element of args String array. The disk output looks like this:
Student #1 is: "Thui Bhu" whose raw scores are: 100: 90: 80: 100: 89: 99: 88: Student #2 is: "Ariana B. Smith" whose raw scores are: 90: 90: 100: 100: 99: 100: 95:
9.3 Research on how to give the command line arguments in your class file using Eclipse.
When starting a Java application, you may want to supply few input parameters to your application even before your program starts. For example, giving database names, supplying username and password etc.
Supplying these arguments before the application starts differs in the way you start your application. You can run your Java application through command window (Windows) or terminal window (MAC). You can even supply these arguments while running from your favorite IDE, e.g. Eclipse.
So, there are two questions:
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a) How do you supply these arguments to your program, and
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b) How do you process these arguments in your program
In: Computer Science
Coney Island Entertainment issues $1,300,000 of 7% bonds, due in15 years, with interest payable semiannually...
Coney Island Entertainment issues $1,300,000 of 7% bonds, due in 15 years, with interest payable semiannually on June 30 and December 31 each year.
Calculate the issue price of a bond and complete the first three rows of an amortization schedule when:
The market interest rate is 8% and the bonds issue at a discount.
In: Accounting
On 3/31/2020, Company ABC released its quarterly report, showing the sales in the first quarter had...
On 3/31/2020, Company ABC released its quarterly report, showing the sales in the first quarter had tumbled 30% as pandemic hit. However, the stock price for company ABC rose by 3% (instead of fell by 3%) after the report is released. Does this mean a failure of the Market Efficient Theory?
In: Finance
On 3/31/2020, Company ABC released its quarterly report, showing the sales in the first quarter had...
On 3/31/2020, Company ABC released its quarterly report, showing the sales in the first quarter had tumbled 30% as pandemic hit. However, the stock price for company ABC rose by 3% (instead of fell by 3%) after the report is released. Does this mean a failure of the Market Efficient Theory?
In: Finance
On 3/31/2020, Company ABC released its quarterly report, showing the sales in the first quarter had...
On 3/31/2020, Company ABC released its quarterly report, showing the sales in the first quarter had tumbled 30% as pandemic hit. However, the stock price for company ABC rose by 3% (instead of fell by 3%) after the report is released. Does this mean a failure of the Market Efficient Theory?
In: Finance
Talcville Farms just paid a dividend of $3.26 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends...
Talcville Farms just paid a dividend of $3.26 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends is expected to be a constant 5.3% per year indefinitely. Investors require a 15.3% return on the stock for the first three years, a 13.3% return for the next three years, and an 11.3% return thereafter. What is the current share price?
In: Finance
Talcville Farms just paid a dividend of $3.32 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends...
Talcville Farms just paid a dividend of $3.32 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends is expected to be a constant 5.6% per year indefinitely. Investors require a 15.6% return on the stock for the first three years, a 13.6% return for the next three years, and an 11.6% return thereafter. What is the current share price?
In: Finance
A company issues a $1,000 perpetual bond. The current rate is 6%. Next period, the rate...
A company issues a $1,000 perpetual bond. The current rate is 6%. Next period, the rate
will change to either 4% or 10%, with equal probability. The bond is callable at the end
of the first year only, for a price of $1,117.90. What is the coupon amount, if the bond
sells at par?
The answer is $83.51. Please show how this was reached.
In: Finance