PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOUR & EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

Question 1

Critically discuss the initial history taking and assessment of Mr Markantonakis. Consider the types of questions asked and the actions taken.

Question 2

From the information provided in the coroner’s case outline what your potential diagnoses and clinical decisions would be if you were attending Mr Markantonakis and provide your rationale.

Question 3

Discuss the style of communication used by Ms Bell when interacting with Mr Markantonakis and his family.

Question 4

Discuss how the handover to the triage staff at the hospital could have been improved. Provide rationales for your answers.

Question 5

Discuss the assessment and decisions made regarding Mr Markantonakis’s pain.

appraisal of published epidemiologicalstudies using coded data.

Issues surrounding the use of ICD‐coded data in clinical and epidemiological research
?Amajor purpose for gathering descriptive statistics is to allow comparisons of data overtime and
among different places. In the case of public health it has been particularly important to make
such comparisons utilising diagnostic information.Without a standard measuring tool which
remains fixed for periods oftime and which is applied uniformly fromplace to place,meaningful
comparative analyses of diagnostic information would not be possible. The International
Classification of Diseases is such a standard tool.?
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As health information practitioners we are often the ?experts? to whom researchers refer when they wish
to undertake research utilising data which has been coded with the International Classification of Diseases.
Asthe ?expert? you need to be aware ofthe positive and negative aspects associated with the use ofthis
coded data.
Using the knowledge you have gained through yourstudiesin varioussubjects(eg. coding, integrating
evidence into practice, analysis of health data, applied health research etc) you will need to undertake a
review of the use of coded data in two empirical research studies.

Creative Process Journal Entries

Each student must keep a creative journal, wherein you will record your reactions to each class. Your journal entries may take the form of discursive writing (imagine it’s a rather thoughtful blog), or poetry, drawings, collages, recorded music, etc. There should be a balance between discursive and creative entries, and definitely try out some varieties of expression which are new to you (i.e. don’t make all your entries musical because you are a musician). The best format for your journal is probably a slightly oversized bound book with blank pages. Balance your entries out with different mediums. Consider even including audio files of songs/audible story/poem you made. Use your imagination and have fun, but please be conscientious, rather than haphazard or rushed.

Schlepping Through the Alps by Sam Apple

1. What is the source of the author’s (Sam Apple’s) fascination with Hans Breuer and with Austria?
2. Discern major components of national and/or socio-cultural identity of (a) the narrator, ostensibly the author himself, and (b) the character of Hans Breuer. (In other words what makes Sam Apple and Hans Breuer ―Jewish‖? Each one, of course, within their own biographical and social context, and what brings them together?)
3. How and in what context is Yiddish language, songs, sayings, or East European Jewish culture being mentioned, used, or alluded to throughout the book.