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1. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Projections 2012-2022 released in December 2013, Registered Nursing (RN) is listed among the top occupations in terms of job growth through 2022. The RN workforce is expected to grow from 2.71 million in 2012 to 3.24 million in 2022, an increase of 526,800 or 19%. The Bureau also projects the need for 525,000 replacements nurses in the workforce bringing the total number of job openings for nurses due to growth and replacements to 1.05 million by 2022.
Current and projected shortage indicators. Retrieved September 2015 from http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t08.htm
Discuss trends impacting the health care delivery regarding the nursing shortage. 150-200 words
2. Mapping and sequencing the human genome will result in new information and materials of potential commercial value, for example, clones that encode previously undiscovered hormones, growth factors, or mediators of immunity. Mapping and sequencing the human genome could provide a great deal of new knowledge about the genetic basis of human disease. However, the effects of that knowledge will be highly colored by the way its practical implications are interpreted. Without careful interpretation, information that links particular genes with disease can have harmful consequences for the people who carry those genes, quite apart from the disease itself. For example, without clear guidance it would be easy for people to misinterpret statistical correlations between clinical diseases and particular genetic markers, so that they take the discovery of the marker to be diagnostic of the disease. Genetic susceptibilities, predispositions, or risks for disease are variable and sometimes ambiguous concepts (Lappe, 1979).
Lappe, M. 1979. Theories of genetic causation in human disease. In A. M. Capron et al, editor. ., eds. Genetic Counseling: Facts, Values, and Norms (Birth Defects: Original Article Series, volume 15). Alan R. Liss, New York. Pp.3-47.
Through health care policy, how will society deal with future issues like cloning and genome mapping issues? 150-200 words
3. Regarding end of life issues, euthanasia is illegal in the United States, but Physician aid in dying (PAD), or assisted suicide is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Vermont. The key difference between euthanasia and PAD is who administers the lethal dose of medication. Euthanasia entails the physician or another third party administering the medication, whereas PAD requires the patient to self-administer the medication and to determine whether and when to do this. Attempts to legalize PAD resulted in ballot initiatives and “legislation bills” within the U.S. in the last 20 years.
Physician aid-in-dying is legal in Oregon and Washington, where voter approved initiatives have legalized aid-in-dying under very specific circumstances. A Montana lower court has also determined that physician aid-in-dying is permitted under Montana’s State Constitution. The Montana case is expected to be appealed to the Montana State Supreme Court, but the lower court’s decision recognizing aid-in-dying remains in full force and effect.
In other states, without specific legislative authority, or a court decision, physician aid-in-dying would most likely be considered illegal, and in many states is explicitly illegal.
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html
How will society, through health care policy, deal with future issues regarding end-of-life issues? 150-200 words