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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. The Warner Bros.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. At that visit, his physical exam was normal. 7,1 (2012): 33-5.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

Families 102
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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health.

IT 99
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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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