#Best Practice

[kawuli]

y'know, more places should do this.

#best practice

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 16

When we talk about growing up and growing old, we often talk about the changes in technology, for good and for ill, we often talk about how we used to do things when we were younger and how things have changed so much. What we don’t often talk about, because most people don’t experience it, is changes to what is considered “best practice”.

It’s a term often used in the medical field, or anything that offers therapy. We may hear big companies use it when referring to their ethical practices. Unfortunately we also tend to hear this from big companies when they’re trying to justify an action that is giving them public relations issues. So it often seems like company jargon when we hear the term “best practice”.

But I want you to know that “best practice” is a thing, and what we may have experienced 5 or 10 years ago, may have changed. And things to do change.

Growing up I had done a lot of bloodwork and IVs (Intravenous) where a needle had to go into a vein in order to take blood or deliver medicine. It got to the point that, when I got older I would bruise easily when this was done. So often if I had to get an IV change, where it was before couldn’t be used again for a long while. My last surgery was back when I was finishing high school, and I wouldn’t end up in hospital again for 10 years.

When I ended up in hospital again, there was an additional action I had to take when bloodwork was done or an IV was taken out. Now, I had always been told to hold a cotton ball or gauze to the area that I had the needle, but I hadn’t until I ended up in hospital 10 years later to hold it down and press hard for a few minutes. I think probably five-minutes was the recommendation; it has been another 10 years since that happened. And what it does, is it prevents bruising, and more importantly if you had to have your blood drawn every day, it meant the same site could be used.

And that was a change made within 10 years. In fact another change I have never experienced but have changed, is the ideal of prepping yourself to be cleaned before your surgery. There are cleaning prep kits that are given to patients with instructions on how they should wash themselves (with stuff in the kit for it) before they go into surgery. This is probably to decrease the likelihood of infection.

And it’s amazing, but it also brings up an important thing we should all keep in mind. Because of the internet, we can ask people about their experiences in medicine, therapy and daily life. Always ask a person if they are giving their experience how long ago that experience was, and if it was 5 or more years ago, do your research. Find out what is “best practice” and who is doing those “best practices”. Is that practice mainstream, or is it just getting off the ground? Because we all know, 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago, there were some practices and beliefs that were not only wrong but harmful. And while these practices may have changed, the name they exist under may have stayed the same. So be aware, as cynical as we like to be about how nothing changes, things do change. Make sure you know what those changes are, or better or for worse.

#life advice #best practice #things do change #advocating for getting updated information #because there are some horror stories about treatments from 10-15 years ago

[hislop3]

Unraveling the Puzzle: Tackling Fragmented Healthcare for Better Patient Outcomes

An issue that I have been interested in for most of my career is coordinated care, especially in terms of older adults who utilize the most care resources and typically, have multiple providers (physicians in particular). Fragmented, uncoordinated care is the primary driver of over-treatment or inefficient treatment. The outcomes of over-treatment include polypharmacy, test redundancy,…

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#Algorithms #article #best practice #Care Continuity #Care Coordination #Care Fragmentation #Compliance #evidence based care #HIPAA #HITECH Act #Hospitals #Industry Outlook #JAMA #LeadingAge #Management #medical care #Physicians #Policy #Post-Acute #Presentation #Research #Strategy #Value Based Purchasing

[holyjak]

Building a REST/Json API? Look here for inspiration! With pagination (via links section) . "designed to minimize both the number of requests and the amount of data transmitted between clients and servers. This efficiency is achieved without compromising readability, flexibility, or discoverability."

The document structure's top keys are data, errors, meta, links plus few other that may be there. Every "resource object" must have an id and type and may have attributes (a map of all its other properties), relationships (to other json:api resources ~ foreign keys in SQL; must have 1+ of links, meta, data: {type, id} (or array)), links, meta.

Related resources (e.g. an article's author) may be also included in the response alongside the primary resource, in the top-level included array (I'd have preferred type -> id lookup). The client requests this, with a list of relationship paths to include. Ex.: ?include=comments.author. Sparse Fieldsets allow clients to request only selected fields for a type. Ex.: fields[articles]=title,body&fields[people]=name. Support for sorting (e.x.: ?sort=-created,title - desc. by created, then asc. by title). Specification of response codes and contents for CRUD. Spec of various query parameters.

There is also a whole section about returning errors (a top-level errors array, each may have id, links, status, code, title, source, meta). There is also a few profiles and extensions, extending the spec.

#api #best practice #standard #design

[everydaydeeds]

Day 3630 - I saw a sick bird come to my seed feeder a couple of times this morning, so I took it down. Best practice to avoid disease spread is to keep it down a few days in hopes that the bird moves on and thoroughly clean it before putting it back out.

#bird feeder #bird safety #best practice #everydaydeeds

[webyking]

Mastering Responsive Web Design: Best Practices Unveiled!

Dive into the world of responsive web design with this latest article! 🌐 Discover the best practices that ensure your website looks stunning on every device. Stay ahead in the digital game!

#responsive web design #best practice #responsive design #responsive website

[platyroonism]

ra ta tooey

#kris #frisk #chara #papyrus #flowey #undertale #TOO MANY TAGS AAARHGHGHGH #in my perfect world flowey and papyrus are best friends and do studpid shit like that. #it's like the jake-body in adventure time #except flowey fucks with papyrus by stealing his hands or something. #kris can't catch a break. #frisk and chara are just frekaing chilling :) #yay!! yippee!!! they are freinds. #oh oh oh but back to flowey and papyrus #papyrus lets flowey sit on his shoulders for easier and more convenient travel #i feel like this is practice for flowey for when alphys build him an awesome robot body #(another one of the things that happen in my perfect world) #flowey and alphys geek over cool anime robot features #ANYWAYS. hope you are having a great day! thanks for likeing my stuff! #plart

[zosanbrainrot]

meet cute at your local żabka

english translation and notes under the cut 💗💗💗

żabka (froggy) is the name of an extremely popular corner shop chain in Poland, it's literally everywhere

My translation is not always literal but sometimes vibes based, like in PL version Sanji doesn't use "jesus" in the second page, but the expression "ja pierdole" doesn't have an english equivalent that would make sense in this contex, literally it means "I fuck" lmao

I now see I mixed up prepositions when Sanji asks Luffy for the sauces, uh oh ANYWAY

I also didn't translate the cans Zoro brings at the end, the writing on the cans says "potwór" which means "monster", so yup these are basically monster energy drinks but translated literally hence the capitalized P as the logo. Why does he drink that instead of some Polish ass beer? Good question, I just enjoy calling them drinks Potwór, and dont know much about beer

#this one is for you polaki MWAH #but mainly for myself #mnie śmieszy #I tried to use nightshade on this but it's not the best with flat colors and also one page took like over an hour I think #i thought my PC was better than that damn #but it was my first attempt gonna be looking more into it later #jeden kawałek #sanji #luffy #zoro #zosan #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #one piece #one piece fanart #mugiwara no luffy #my art #lets temporarily ignore żabkas practices of driving out small local shops and other shit they do to their franchisees #and focus on hotdogs #zabka is a quintessential part of a modern polish experience but alas capitalism

[thelawandmore]

What are law firms’ biggest mistakes when implementing data governance frameworks? 

What are law firms’ biggest mistakes when implementing data governance frameworks?

Data governance frameworks are essential for ensuring the quality, integrity, security, discoverability, accessibility, and usability of data assets. However, many law firms face challenges when implementing data governance frameworks and end up making some common mistakes that undermine their data-driven initiatives. Here are some of the biggest mistakes that law firms should avoid when…

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#best practice #data assets #data governance frameworks #implementation #mistakes

[newsfromtherooftop]

Does your organisation support Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers?

Does your organisation support Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers? l New best practice guide to help organisations support unpaid carers. #BAME #bestpractice #familycarer

Carers UK has released a new best practice guide to help organisations support unpaid carers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.  Carers UK found that carers from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds were more anxious about their current financial situation and more likely to be impacted by the closure of local services. Unpaid carers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic…

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#BAME #best practice #Family Carer

[asterwild]

behold: bears

#id in alt #illustration #wildlife #animals #bears #still working on the text for the mini zine version #hoping to have that for patrons later this week + will do a flip-through video and put it in my ko-fi shop for everyone eventually #sizes aren't quite accurate in comparison to one another #but they should be more or less correct as far as being largest to smallest. sun bears are real small and polar bears are real big #& sorry if there is a Best Practice in terms of the order the names are written i did what felt right !!

[eitanblumin]

Drop All Redundant Indexes In Every Database All At Once

Learn how to identify and remove redundant indexes in #SQLServer to improve database performance and save storage space. #Microsoft #AzureSQL #MadeiraData

Redundant indexes in SQL Server are a phenomenon that is more common than I’d like to admit. I see it in quite a lot of shops. Meaning, that there’s still a significant target audience for this blog post! This article published by Brent Ozar is very informative about redundant/duplicate indexes, what they mean, why they’re bad, and what should be done with them. Also, a few years ago, Guy…

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#best practice #Indexes #Performance #redundant indexes #script #storage

[expphot0]

Scanning Best Practice

In a previous article, I covered the recommended practices for printing and connecting your printer, but what about scanning? I will briefly discuss the best long-term techniques I have discovered to get your scanner to function reliably every time.Manufacturers make an effort to simplify things by enabling direct scanning from the scanner. The method that most people try to use as their default…

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#best practice #scanning

[ladygavgav]

Cataloguing the Uncatalogued

New blog post: Cataloguing the Uncatalogued.

For the last eight years or so, I’ve run my monthly open-mic singlehandedly. However, our collaborations during 2022 showed me the group was becoming unwieldy to manage alone. So at the next event tomorrow, we’ll introduce our first co-host. Having already briefed her about the help we need, such as welcoming readers while I set up the equipment, I started to compose a short document to explain…

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#best practice #blogging #document #Dundee #fiction #hosting #hotchpotch #performance #writing

[demigods-posts]

you know that thing people do whenever they get so pissed off that they laugh? i'm convinced percy has 100% done that at least once. maybe a camper said the wrong thing about someone he cares about, and his gut reaction is to hurt them. but he knows he shouldn't do that. so he just laughs for a few seconds, leave his sword on the table, and spends the rest of the day in the camp lake.

#'the sea does not like to be restrained' #<- percy does his best to practice restraint #and it's incredibly difficult bc he canonically has anger issues #but he tries #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo text post #percy jackson #pjo headcanon #idk what to make of this

[nounaarts]

Practice sonic redraws with CD poses I found

#I feel like the best way the practice with these is to not try too hard #lines should be quick #cuz I notice if I take too long on one part I’ll start stressing on it #it helps with quick practice #sonic the hedgehog #sonic art #sonic cd #doodles #practice #art #nounaarts