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  2. Bar code medication administration - Wikipedia

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    One type of scanner used for bar code medication administration. It consists of a bar code reader, a portable or desktop computer with wireless connection, a computer server, and some software. When a nurse gives medication to a patient in a healthcare setting, the nurse can scan the barcode on the patient's wristband on the patient to verify ...

  3. Mindfulness-based stress reduction - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week, evidence-based program designed to provide secular, intensive mindfulness training to help individuals manage stress, anxiety, depression, and pain. MBSR was developed in the late 1970s by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

  4. Barcode reader - Wikipedia

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    A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. [1] Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals. Additionally, nearly all barcode readers contain decoder circuitry ...

  5. PDF417 - Wikipedia

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    PDF417 is a stacked barcode that can be read with a simple linear scan being swept over the symbol. [4] Those linear scans need the left and right columns with the start and stop code words. Additionally, the scan needs to know what row it is scanning, so each row of the symbol must also encode its row number.

  6. Barcode - Wikipedia

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    A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines. These barcodes, now commonly referred to as linear or one-dimensional (1D), can be scanned by special optical scanners, called barcode readers, of which ...

  7. Cognitive behavioral therapy - Wikipedia

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    MeSH. D015928. [edit on Wikidata] Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy [1][2] that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression, PTSD and anxiety disorders. [3] Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (such as thoughts, beliefs, and ...

  8. John Henryism - Wikipedia

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    John Henryism. Statue of John Henry outside the town of Talcott in Summers County, West Virginia. John Henryism is a strategy for coping with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort, which results in accumulating physiological costs. [1][2]

  9. QR code - Wikipedia

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    Rectangular Micro QR Code. Rectangular Micro QR Code (also known as rMQR Code) is two-dimensional (2D) matrix barcode invented and standardized in 2022 by Denso Wave as ISO/IEC 23941. rMQR Code is designed as a rectangular variation of QR code and has the same parameters and applications as original QR code.