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The Medical Center Hour: Can Adolescents Refuse Medical Treatment? 9/10/08 - he news media regularly highlight incidents in which adolescents with serious, even
life-threatening, illnesses challenge medical recommendations and refuse efficacious life-saving
treatment. Such cases, aside from their celebrity, often represent wrenching, potentially divisive dilemmas for families and pose difficult ethical and legal challenges to health professionals and health care systems. |
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Alternative Procedures and Medicine at U.Va. 6/6/08 - Eighty percent of the world's population uses traditional and indigenous medical practices for an important part of health care. Increasingly, Americans are seeking these same techniques as supplements to their own care. Dr. Ann Gill Taylor is the Director of the Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, and in this lecture, she describes some of the studies currently underway at the Center. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Do Nurses Work for Love, or for Money?11/7/07 - In contrast to medicine, in nursing philanthropic and altruistic ideals conflict with
professional self-determination, most evidently economically. Philanthropists and altruistic agents
seldom seek economic gain or even parity, but professionals, having devoted years to developing
expertise, expect to be paid well and recognized in other ways. What is the basis for nursing |
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Electronic Publishing and Education Panel Discussion6/2/07 - Panelists discuss the significant growth in the dissemination of new information and the need for physicians and healthcare professionals to manage information, publish research and create interactive Web-based education strategies form a new framework for the concepts of education, publishing and integration of new information into healthcare delivery. Panelists are Elizabeth E. Friberg, professor of nursing (moderator); Bradley Daigle, associate director, Special Collections Digital Services; Gretchen Arnold, MLS, director, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library; Larry Gimple, MD, professor of Medicine, Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine; David Slawson, MD, professor of family medicine |
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Disciplining Death: The Politics of Terminal Care Reform in Connecticut 3/20/07 - Dr. Joy Buck identifies the key players and societal conditions that led to the creation of the modern hospice movement in the United States. Focusing on the activities of the hospice creators in the State of Connecticut, Dr. Buck outlines the establishment of Hospice, Inc., the nation's first home hospice care program, and traces the challenges faced by the creators as they worked with patients, their families, and the health care professionals to provide a caring and responsive environment for the dying. |
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Gov. Timothy Kaine Announces Increases in Nursing Salaries 2/28/07 - Gov. Timothy Kaine addressed a news conference at the University of Virginia School of Nursing during which he announced funding and initiatives to address the low number of practicing nurses in Virginia and the shortage of nursing faculty. |
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News Story: Nursing School Adds Doctoral Program2/6/07 - The University of Virginia School of Nursing is the first nursing school in Virginia to offer a new doctoral program, the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). |
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News Story: Nursing Dean Named to State Task Force1/11/07 - Jeanette Lancaster, Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing, has been invited by the Virginia Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Resources to serve on a statewide Healthcare Workforce Task Force. |
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