Based on the regulations you identified, respond to the following questions:

What are the benefits and shortcomings of your identified regulations? Which of these shortcomings have an effect on the quality and the cost of health care services? How?
Do you believe there is a link between regulations and better care? Why or why not?
Why do you think long-term care services are subjected to so much external control by government agencies? Provide a rationale for your responses.
How is quality measured in long-term care? Is there only one, or are there several approaches to measure quality? What are they? Who should be given the responsibility to measure quality?

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Identify a family member or a friend, not a client, and conduct a pain assessment including the following:

Location
Duration
Quantity
Quality
Chronology
Aggravating factors
Alleviating factors
Associated phenomena
Write a summary of your assessment and identify two non-pharmacological nursing interventions that you might recommend.

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Read the ethics case “Deciding Who Receives the Swine Flu Vaccine” at the end of Chapter 3 of your text and respond to one of the following questions:

Question 1: From a utilitarian point of view, who do you think should be in the priority group? Explain your answer.

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• Describe the pathophysiology of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, and discuss the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, evaluation (include the revised Jones Criteria), and treatment of rheumatic fever.

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