Ethical Considerations for Healthcare Organizations.

Ethical misbehavior in the delivery of healthcare creates harm not only to individual therapists and administrators who might choose to overstep ethical boundaries but also, more broadly, causes harm to patients, to healthcare organizations, to professional organizations, and ultimately to society. Both corporate codes of conduct and professional codes of ethics are important, because they set standards of conduct and penalize noncompliant or unethical conduct. The purposes of this article are (1) to differentiate corporate compliance from ethics in a healthcare organization; (2) to explain the application of ethics principles to organizational and professional behaviors; (3) to discuss three important ethical issues (cultural competence, conflict of interest, and employer demands); and (4) to emphasize that, whether applying a corporate code of conduct or a professional code of ethics (or both), the integrity of each individual is essential to ethical behavior.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): potential progress for language improvement in aphasia.

Aphasia researchers and clinicians share some basic beliefs about language recovery post stroke. Most agree there is a spontaneous recovery period and language recovery may be enhanced by participation in a behavioral therapy program. The application of biological interventions in the form of pharmaceutical treatments or brain stimulation is less well understood in the community of people who work with individuals having aphasia.

Emotional intelligence: the Sine Qua Non for a clinical leadership toolbox.

Unlabelled: Over the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that although IQ and technical skills are important, emotional intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of leadership. According to Goleman [Goleman, D. (1998).

Shift happens: using outcomes to survive and thrive under PPS.

In the post prospective payment system (PPS) era, acute rehabilitation providers are presented with multiple challenges and opportunities. All inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) face the requisite demands for improved efficiency (e.g.

Drawing and gesture as communication options in a person with severe aphasia.

The following case study demonstrates the efficacy of a gestural and graphic treatment approach for an individual with chronic Broca's aphasia. RJ. presented with global aphasia as a result of a stroke in 1985.

The aphasia syndromes: Localization and classification.

The premise of this article is that the members of the stroke team speak an abbreviated but common language when discussing the person with aphasia. The team's initial goal is to assess a person with stroke who has sustained left hemisphere injury and to be able to communicate effectively with each other and the patient in order to accomplish the rehabilitation goals. The article discusses differential diagnosis in aphasia and the advantages and disadvantages of aphasia classification.