Using Photographs to Bring Dignity to Patients and Help Clinicians Find Meaning and Joy in Work.

The importance of dignity in health care is well described, yet limited interventions exist to improve dignity, particularly patient-driven interventions. To test the hypothesis that patient-selected photographs at the bedside would impact patients' sense of dignity and clinicians' sense of meaningful work, stimulate conversation between patients and clinicians, and serve as a visual and patient-driven complement to the Patient Dignity Question (PDQ). Patients admitted to three units at an academic medical center displayed photographs above their head of bed and were interviewed for this study.

Evaluation of a Meditation Intervention to Reduce the Effects of Stressors Associated With Compassion Fatigue Among Nurses.

Purpose Of Study: This pilot study evaluated whether short (less than 10 minutes) structured meditations decrease compassion fatigue and improve compassion satisfaction in oncology nurses.

Design Of Study: A nonrandomized, pre-post intervention study.

Methods Used: Participants used specific meditations designed to establish a sense of calm, relaxation, and self-compassion 5 days a week for 4 weeks.

MO-D-213AB-01: A Brief History of Medical Physics Reimbursement.

Unlabelled: "Corporate memory" is important in many areas of medical physics, but especially so in the area of economics. To appreciate where medical physics currently resides in the reimbursement arena, it is imperative that we know from whence we came. This talk will trace the history of medical physics reimbursement, chiefly in the area of radiation oncology since most of our reimbursement codes appear in that clinical specialty.