Catholicism and the Neonatal Context

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
M. Therese Lysaught
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The United States ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
Patient Decision Making ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Roman Catholics

Roman Catholics comprise the largest single denomination in the United States and are the nation’s largest group of not-for-profit healthcare providers. Yet, there is little or no available literature to assist neonatal caregivers in understanding how religious beliefs and values might influence parents’ responses to the challenges posed by their newborn’s care. Equally, there is little or no available literature on the academic or pastoral side addressing questions of neonatal medicine from a theological perspective. This chapter addresses how Roman Catholic teachings might affect the ways in which parents and caregivers make treatment decisions. It examines the neonatal context in light of five aspects of Catholic teaching—the dignity of the human person, patient decision making, withholding and withdrawing treatment, palliative care, and Catholic social thought—as well as three important Catholic practices—baptism, the anointing of the sick, and the care of babies’ bodies, living and dead.

THE INCEPTION AND EVOLUTION OF FINANCIAL REPORTING IN THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Swanson ◽  
John C. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Church

This research documents the emergence of accounting procedures and concepts in a centrally controlled not-for-profit organization during a period of change and consolidation. The evolution of accounting as prescribed by the General Canons is identified and its implementation throughout the church conferences is examined.

Implementation of Wireless “Intelligent” Pump IV Infusion Technology in a Not-for-Profit Academic Hospital Setting

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 832-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lor Siv-Lee ◽  
Linda Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Main Campus ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Drug Concentrations ◽  
Wireless Infrastructure ◽  
Infusion System

Purpose This paper describes the implementation of wireless “intelligent” pump intravenous (IV) infusion technology in a not-for-profit academic, multicampus hospital system in the United States. Methods The process of implementing a novel infusion system in a multicampus health care institution (main campus plus three satellite campuses) is described. Details are provided regarding the timelines involved, the process for the development of the drug libraries, and the initial implementation within and across campuses. Results In early 2004, with the end of the device purchase contract period nearing, a multidisciplinary committee evaluated potential IV infusion pumps for hospital use. In April 2004, the committee selected the Plum A+ infusion system with Hospira MedNet software and wireless capabilities (Hospira Inc., Lake Forest, IL). Implementation of the single-channel IV infusion system took place July through October 2005 following installation of the wireless infrastructure throughout the multicampus facility. Implementation occurred in July, one campus at a time; the three smaller satellite campuses went “live” before the main campus. Implementation of the triple-channel IV infusion system took place in March 2006 when the wireless infrastructure was completed and fully functional throughout the campuses, software was upgraded, and drug library revisions were completed and uploaded. Conclusion “Intelligent” pump technology provided a framework to standardize drug concentrations used in the intensive care units. Implementation occurred transparently without any compromise of patient care. Many lessons were learned during implementation that explained the initial suboptimal compliance with safety software use. In response, the committee developed strategies to increase software utilization rates, which resulted in improved acceptance by nursing staff and steadily improving compliance rates. Wireless technology has supported remote device management, prospective monitoring, the avoidance of medication error, and the timely education of health care professionals regarding potential medication errors.

scholarly journals Impact of a Dashboard to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Largest Not-For-Profit Healthcare System in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Guharoy ◽  
Mohamad G. Fakih ◽  
Jeffrey Seggerman ◽  
Karen Smethers ◽  
Ann Hendrich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽  
The United States ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

Governing Homelessness through Running

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan C Clift
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

In the context of social welfare austerity and non-state actors’ interventions into social life, an urban not-for-profit organization in the United States, Back on My Feet, uses the practice of running to engage those recovering from homelessness. Promoting messages of self-sufficiency, the organization centralizes the body as a site of investment and transformation. Doing so calls to the fore the social construction of ‘the homeless body’ and ‘the running body’. Within this ethnographic inquiry, participants in recovery who ran with the organization constructed moralized senses of self in relation to volunteers, organizers, and those who do not run, while in recovery. Their experiences compel consideration of how bodily constructions and practices reproduce morally underpinned, self-oriented associations with homeless and neoliberal discourses that obfuscate systemic causes of homelessness, pose challenges for well-intentioned voluntary or development organizations, and service the relief of the state from social responsibility.

The Psychology of Black Males Attending Urban Private Colleges and Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 1080-1105
Author(s):  
Bryant T. Marks ◽  
Chauncey Smith ◽  
Jordan Madison ◽  
Cary Junior
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Positive Attitudes

The purpose of this study is to describe the psychology of Black males attending private, not-for-profit, colleges and universities in urban areas. Surveys were administered over three semesters to 886 Black male college students attending 28 national colleges/universities in various urban settings across the United States. The psychological domains examined in this study included academic and racial attitudes, expressive behaviors, mental and physical health, values/priorities, rap music listening habits, leadership, masculinity, and spirituality. Overall, the results reveal that Black males in these settings are mentally healthy, possess predominantly positive attitudes, and tend to engage in constructive and/or productive behaviors.

scholarly journals Thundermist Health Center: Extending Pharmaceutical Services To Underserved Patients

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Charles J. Quigley Jr ◽  
Frank G. Bingham Jr
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Part D ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Pharmaceutical Distribution ◽  
Underserved Patients ◽  
Remote Sites

This paper describes a not-for-profit healthcare providers strategy to provide its economically disadvantaged patients with access to low cost pharmaceuticals. Initially, an in-house pharmacy was established, supported by a satellite distribution system using a telepharmacy solution to extend medications to its patients at remote sites. New federal legislation which provided access to low cost insurance through Medicare Part D to many of the providers disadvantaged patients, along with state licensing requirements forced the healthcare provider to reassess the economics of its pharmaceutical distribution system and seek other alternatives. Among the alternatives the healthcare provider considered was partnering with for-profit pharmaceutical companies in order to reach their patients.

Classics for All?

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-290
Author(s):  
Patrice D. Rankine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
First Century ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Veil

This essay examines the contradiction of classics for all, evident in but not exclusive to the not-for-profit enterprise by the same name (Classics for All) that seeks to promote the Greek and Latin classics in schools across the United Kingdom. Embodying a form like the classics can mean not slavish mastery, but an improvisational artistry that alters the form so that it bends to one’s will. Issues of access, however, problematize the simple assertion of classics for all. The realities that necessitated the Black Lives Matter movement, in contrast to a more hopeful, turn-of-the-twentieth-century Du Boisan notion of the removal of the Veil of segregation, run counter to classics for all. There have been sufficient signs within the twenty-first century of the rejection of a broad, democratic, multicultural movement toward American wholeness symbolized in the election of President Barack Hussein Obama. Nevertheless, economic disparities that separate black and white in the United States remain, and the post-Obama era evidences significant backlash across the “Black Atlantic” world. The classics is caught up in this backlash.

The Changing Relationships in Transfusion Medicine

1999 ◽  
Vol 123 (8) ◽  
pp. 668-671
Author(s):  
Kathleen Sazama
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
The Face

Abstract Maintaining quality in provision of transfusion services in the face of mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and risk-sharing relationships between organizations that formerly conducted business in a traditional vendor-purchaser model is the ultimate challenge. Publications, both lay and professional, highlight the speed and nature of the impetus for change, especially in the United States, where managed care philosophies are driving a bottom-line mentality. Blood collection and transfusion organizations are developing new relationships, including entry of for-profit entities into a formerly virtually exclusively not-for-profit environment, provision of transfusion services by formerly exclusive blood collection entities and vice versa, outsourcing of selected portions, and other innovative relationships, with significantly more competitive marketing strategies. Measures of quality of transfusion services should benchmark current practices, if possible, before entering into new relationships to ensure that the quality of patient care remains high. Concerns about the fiscal viability of organizations should not minimize safety and availability of blood for transfusion when needed.

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