Effective Document Management and Filing Systems

Definition of a File

A file is where all the documents of a professional or a business are kept. It also refers to a set of related data. As an active center for information, documents must be perfectly ordered. The storage of documents constitutes the memory or history of the office or unit.

File Functions

  • Review clinical documentation before filing
  • Clinical coding
  • Warehouse and storage of documentation
  • Control of loans and returns
  • Treatment of liabilities (archiving documents with little chance of future
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Ethical Principles in Human Research: Belmont & Helsinki

Belmont Report Principles

April 18, 1979, Belmont, USA

Basic Ethical Principles

  1. Respect for Persons: Acknowledging autonomy and protecting those with diminished autonomy.
  2. Beneficence: Do no harm; maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms.
  3. Justice: Fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of research.

Informed Consent Elements

  • Information

    Subjects must be informed about the research procedure, its purposes, risks and anticipated benefits, alternative procedures (if therapy is involved),

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IP Addressing and Routing Exercises

Ejercicio 14: Find the block if one of the addresses is 190.87.140.202/29. Solution: The number of addresses is 2^(32-29) = 8. The first address is 190.87.140.200/29, the last address is 190.87.140.207/29.

Ejercicio 15: An organization is granted the block 130.34.12.64/26. The organization needs to have four subnets. What are the subnet addresses and the range of addresses for each subnet? Solution: The suffix length is 6. This means the total number of addresses in the block is 64 (2^6). If we create

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Integers, Fractions, and Measurement in Primary Education

Integers in School

The study of integers is justified in primary education due to their presence in everyday life (temperatures, bank accounts, elevators…).

Difficulties Students Face Manipulating Signed Numbers

Working with signed numbers means breaking with the traditional understanding of numbers as simply representing a measurement or absolute magnitude. In this context, zero indicates the absence of magnitude, making the concept of numbers less than zero challenging. Addition is associated with

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Animal Cruelty: Unmasking the Suffering and Seeking Change

Animal Cruelty: A Deep Dive

A: Until one has loved an animal

D: a part of one’s soul remains unawakened, Anatole France. Winner of the Nobel Prize of literature in 1921. Think of a tradition that involves animals…

A: Bullfights, cockfights, gaucho horse riding, animal testing and several more, sadly.

A & D: All of them involve animal suffering.

D: Torture is not culture. Do we really enjoy it?

A: Or is it just for our benefit; being born with a purpose?

D: But that purpose is death.

A: Thousands

D:

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Instructional Design: Action Verbs & Lesson Planning

Action Verbs in Instructional Design

IDENTIFY: To indicate the selection of an object of a class in response to its class name, by pointing, picking up, underlining, marking, or other responses.

INTERPRET: To translate information from observation, charts, tables, graphs, and written material in a verifiable manner.

LABEL: To stipulate a verbal (oral or written) response to a given object, drawing, or composition that contains information relative to the known, but unspecified structure of these objects,

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