STEROID-INDUCED GLAUCOMA IN YOUNGSTERS: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE OF NEAR FUTURE by Yousaf Jamal Mahsood

“… • Role of Allied Health Personnel (AHP): Allied healthcare professionals, such as physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, frequently prescribe steroids. …”
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Free Access to Point of Care Resource Results in Increased Use and Satisfaction by Rural Healthcare Providers by Lindsay J. Alcock

“…Subjects – Twenty-eight health care providers (physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists) with no reported access to PoC resources, (specifically Dynamed and AccessMedicine) or electronic textbook collections prior to enrollment. …”
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Evaluation of a guideline directed medical therapy titration program in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction by Kathir Balakumaran, Aadhar Patil, Shannon Marsh, Joseph Ingrassia, Chia-Ling Kuo, Daniel Louis Jacoby, Sabeena Arora, Richard Soucier

“…Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review through existing patient data in a single center teaching hospital of patients referred to a focused GDMT clinic primarily staffed with heart failure trained nurse specialists, physician assistants and cardiologists. Management guidelines were developed with protocols for the initiation and uptitration of all therapeutic agents considered as GDMT.Our primary objective was to determine whether enrollment into a dedicated nursing led guideline directed medical therapy clinic would increase the proportion of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction on appropriate medications as well as medication dosages in patients, the percentage of patients on the following medications and percentage at target doses: Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Blockers, Evidence Based Beta Blockers, and Aldosterone Antagonists. …”
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Media Landscape Opens Opportunity for Earlier, Better End of Life Care by Randi Belisomo

“…The meeting drew an international audience of medical, radiation and surgical oncologists along with nurses, social workers and physician assistants. “This is a window of opportunity to get in the public dialogue in a really public way,” Back said during a session addressing the skills required for optimum end of life care. …”
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The Modern Family Fiasco by Louisa Howard

“…Disagreements and legal battles could be more easily prevented if patients who used a fertility center were required to make these life-altering decisions about their future child before seeking physician assistance. Another way to look at these circumstances would be to consider what it would have been like if the pair could have conceived naturally. …”
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Patient Satisfaction Toward Medical Ward Services In Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) AND Hospital Kota Bharu (HKB) by Winn, Than, Baba, Abdul Aziz

“…On the other hand, nurses, midwives and physician assistants tend to be scored highly on interaction with patients because patients often emphasized on the interpersonal aspect, rather than on perceived technical competence (Hall et al., 1990). …”
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Conscientious Objection Based on Patient Identity by John Dinelli

“…In addition, the laws specifically name procedures like sterilization, euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide as permissible grounds for objection. …”
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Conscientious Objection Based on Patient Identity by John Dinelli

“…In addition, the laws specifically name procedures like sterilization, euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide as permissible grounds for objection. …”
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E‐learning of evidence‐based health care (EBHC) to increase EBHC competencies in healthcare professionals: a systematic review by Anke Rohwer, Nkengafac Villyen Motaze, Eva Rehfuess, Taryn Young

“…Participants were medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, physician assistants, athletic trainers and a combination of professionals at all levels of education. …”
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Aligning Preprofessional Student Experiences in Integrative Group Medical Visits with Integrative Medicine Core Competencies by Malik K. Tiedt, Bethany M. Kavalakatt, Aisha Chilcoat, Jessica L. Barnhill, Isabel J. Roth

“…could teach CIH competencies across specialties and may improve multidisciplinary collaboration as a wide range of professionals (physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, dentists, and naturopathic doctors) have completed integrative medicine fellowships.16 Student reflections presented within this commentary were shaped by mentors with qualifications and years of experience in CIH. …”
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The Part of the Primary Care Provider in our National Awakening to Systemic Racism by Katie Chaucer, Monika DeTurk

“…As community leaders, all PCPs, including medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses, are morally called to combat systemic racism. …”
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The Push to Integrate Mid-Level Providers into Dentistry by Angelica Dallas

“…Nurse practitioners and physician assistants have been providing direct care for patients with the oversight of licensed physicians for many years. …”
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Wit by Julia Bolzon

“…Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2001. 218-223. [3] A story I read recently depicts a patient dying of cancer in an isolation room, screaming of pain, whom the nurses avoided because there was nothing left for them to do, as much as they wanted to help. …”
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Death with Dignity in Canada by Anna Vargo

“…"Ethical Considerations in the Regulation of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death in Canada." Health Policy 119, no. 11 (2015): 1490-98. …”
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Competence or Experience by Jonathan Tenenbaum

“…As Foley describes, “The public's fear of pain and the media's portrayal that physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are the only reliable options for pain relief… demand that health care delivery systems commit their efforts to improve pain relief at an institutional level.”[10] Indeed, the issue of insufficient pain management is all too common in pediatrics. …”
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Fostering Medical Students’ Commitment to Beneficence in Ethics Education by Philip Reed, Joseph Caruana

“…For example, early editions of their book opposed the legalization of physician-assisted death compared to recent editions that defended it.[3] As another example, Beauchamp and Childress make paternalism harder to justify by adding an autonomy-protecting condition to the list of conditions for acceptable paternalism.[4] Authority, they contend, need not conflict with autonomy—provided the authority is autonomously chosen.[5] “The main requirement,” they write, “is to respect a particular patient’s or subject’s autonomous choices, whatever they may be.[6] In the principlism of Beauchamp and Childress, autonomy now seems to have a kind of default priority.[7] However, the bioethics discourse has strong counternarratives, noting some movement to elevate the role of beneficence and to respect the input of stakeholders, including the family and the healthcare team. …”
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Personhood, Critical Interests, and the Moral Imperative of Advance Directives in Alzheimer’s Cases by Samuel Dale

“…Advance Directives, Dementia, and Physician‐Assisted Death. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41(2), 484-500…”
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Interview with Arthur Caplan by Kaitlynd Hiller, Rachel F Bloom

“…So I’ve switched and become a supporter, at least of terminal illness as a trigger to allowing people physician-assisted suicide.   I was a believer for a long time that if we switched from an opt-in system to get organs to an opt-out system that that would get us more organs.  …”
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