(n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
(n.) Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
(n.) Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
(n.) The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
(n.) To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
(3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(4) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(6) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(7) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(9) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(10) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(12) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(13) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
(14) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(15) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(17) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(19) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(20) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
Guardianship
Definition:
(n.) The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elderly female patients with organic brain disease were the group on whom guardianship was most used either to support them in the community or to facilitate admission to residential care.
(2) This is in keeping with the restrictive laws governing women’s rights in the country, which includes the guardianship system which restricts women’s independent free movement, and the inability to drive.
(3) "There is a difference between a civilian democratic state that guarantees man's basic rights and military guardianship," warned the Nobel laureate.
(4) Evidence suggests that children can do just as well in other forms of stable placements such as long-term fostering and "special guardianship" – a court order that gives a guardian legal parental responsibility for a child without removing responsibility altogether from the birth parents.
(5) The government has also declined to endorse moves advocated by Field and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, towards the introduction of a pilot guardianship scheme under which a trained adult would be given the task of looking after child victims.
(6) Multidimensional scaling of the aggregate proximity matrix for the items showed three dimensions in the caregiver task domain: type of impairment (physical vs. cognitive-emotional), location of caregiving (within home vs. outside home), and response to parental incompetency (autonomy-fostering vs. guardianship).
(7) Guardianship was rarely used to prevent hospitalization.
(8) In particular, standardized and reliable assessments of competency are lacking; a family member's petition for guardianship is seldom challenged by the older person; and the primary goal of most guardianship cases to preserve the estate of the older individual.
(9) The powers of guardianship under the 1983 Mental Health Act confer on the guardian powers to require the patient to reside in a specified place, to require attendance for treatment and to require access to the patient for appropriate health and social services personnel.
(10) The legal measures covering protection and care in connection with legislation governing guardianship and fosterage involving medical nursing, which have remained unchanged in principle since 1896, increasingly create the risk of obstructing and hampering the treatment and rehabilitation of mental patients.
(11) Stories such as his suggest that, although they’ve been used in Britain for more than a decade, property guardianship schemes are not all they are cracked up to be.
(12) The areas covered in the Call to Action are: A stronger focus on the needs of adolescents entering the care system; Investment into and effective implementation of Staying Put; Improvement of educational outcomes for looked-after children; Improving access to mental health services for looked-after children, adopted children and care leavers; Prioritisation and effective measurement of wellbeing for looked-after children; Access to adoption support at an earlier stage in the process; Changing Special Guardianship Order processes so they are used only when appropriate and allow for effective support.
(13) In addition, Pennsylvania guardianship statutes have been amended.
(14) Originally developed in the Netherlands as a form of "anti-squatting" to secure buildings against uninvited guests, guardianship is a rapidly growing part of the UK property security industry, with around 20 private companies offering space for up to 10,000 guardians.
(15) Part I deals with the historical evolution of the concept and definition of mental subnormality, both in the medical and in the legal field, and also the civil issues concerning the mentally subnormal, such as education, employment and community living, marriage, parenthood and involuntary sterilization, the right to treatment and the right to refuse treatment, guardianship and mental incompetency.
(16) There are still many questions to resolve about the details of the tunnel and where the portals should be sited, but I think the advantages of a tunnel of at least 2.9km, which is what the government is proposing, far outweighs the disadvantages.” While broad agreement has been reached between Historic England , the statutory authority for ancient monuments, the newly split off English Heritage, which has guardianship of Stonehenge itself and the new visitor centre, and the National Trust, which owns thousands of surrounding acres of land, nothing happens at Stonehenge without passionate argument.
(17) FASD is also having an impact on children who are undiagnosed and who are subject to special guardianship orders or being looked after by kinship carers.
(18) Such guidelines are of special importance both because they have not been set down in detail, and because of recent moves to establish adult guardianship legislation in various jurisdictions.
(19) The male guardianship system, which deprives women of the right to make decisions about almost all aspects of their lives, is still in place although the government promised the UN human rights council in 2009 that it would abolish the system.
(20) Three cases of guardianship for mental impairment were excluded from the analysis leaving 23 patients with mental illness.