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1.     Discuss a time when you have felt like your hands were tied in treating or providing for a patient. What did you do about the situation? How did you feel?

2.     This tedtalk shows obvious signs of how healthcare can create silos within the system. Discuss a time that you observed the creation of silos within healthcare and how it created ethical problems when providing care. How would you suggest we overcome some of the problems created?

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Andrew Bastawrous: A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable

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In 2011, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid losing their sight to curable or preventable conditions. Along the way, he noticed a problem: strict funding regulations meant that he could only operate on people with specific diseases, leaving many others without resources for treatment.

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My video response can be found on the follow YouTube page. Hannah McShea

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xssHmWlSIcI

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Leanne

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I hope you all enjoy my final thoughts! I loved hearing all your stories and thank you all for being advocates for your patients.

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1) This TedTalk discusses the issues and challenges the ACLU faced when they ended a 25-year practice of allowing patents of genes in the United States. The ACLU recognized that gene patents allowed for patent holders, often private companies, to stop anyone from using that gene in research or clinical testing, which was causing problems and harming patients. Discuss a current healthcare policy issue, current or pending, that you are against. Explain your reasoning. What are the benefits of the policy – to providers, patients, institutions, insurance companies, government, etc.? What are the barriers to challenging this policy?

2) It has been argued that clinically engaged APRNs already have a fully daily agenda, and therefore are not in a position to take on additional responsibilities of influencing policies. Do you agree or disagree? What are some barriers to becoming informed and involved in healthcare policies? How will you combat these obstacles?

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Tania Simoncelli: Should you be able to patent a human gene?

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A decade ago, US law said human genes were patentable -- which meant patent holders had the right to stop anyone from sequencing, testing or even looking at a patented gene. Troubled by the way this law both harmed patients and created a barrier to biomedical innovation, Tania Simoncelli and her colleagues at the ACLU challenged it.

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My Discussion video can be found here https://youtu.be/QrBY4bfDXDE

Hannah McShea

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This speaker discussed human needs and attributes amongst all populations to be similar. However, in some aspects not always a solid direction of understanding other “tribes of people”,” but “liquid” movement of understanding “tribes of people.” It varied from cultures, gender, and environmental characteristics.
In your career, healthcare or other, have you experienced yourself or others to approach someone of those different characteristics with awareness or unbiased/biased  thought?
Have you subconsciously disregarded their background and not realized there was communication issue?
What does your current practice do to maintain unbiased care and provide respect for people from any background or cultural/social/environmental differences?

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Elif Shafak: The revolutionary power of diverse thought

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"From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism." A native of Turkey, Shafak has experienced firsthand the devastation that a loss of diversity can bring -- and she knows the revolutionary power of plurality in response to authoritarianism.

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Here is the link to my discussion board video

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Leanne - wrapping it up

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https://www.ted.com/talks/jan_denecker_how_to_do_more_with_less_in_healthcare#t-140245

In light of the growing cost of modern health care, are there lessons that our western healthcare system can learn from the way other parts of the world control healthcare costs?

In your healthcare setting, are their patient care processes used for clinical care that have been or could potentially be simplified in order to optimize cost efficiency?  What barriers might you encounter when trying to change these processes?

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Leanne Buschmeier

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https://youtu.be/Kzu1Ib5ME6g

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1) This TedTalk talks about informatics in healthcare and the future of technology to diagnosis, treat, and better care for patients anywhere in the world. The TedTalk talks about the use of robotics for surgery with nearly scarless procedures or robotics for paralyzed individuals. What are your thoughts on the future of robotics?

2) What are your thoughts on all the current and future apps available for healthcare providers? He discussed the future of colonoscopies...being able to see lesions inside the colon without actually going inside the way we do now. What do you think about the possibility for error with apps and electronics for diagnosing diseases?

https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kraft_medicine_s_future#t-1080053.

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https://youtu.be/S9bDM0j4-iE

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Leanne Buschmeier