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HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com A patient is in a coma
that appears irreversible. His mother, who is his
surrogate, firmly believes that he will recover
and that God is taking a hand to work a miracle
if everyone will just wait long enough. She wants
everything done for the patient, including
resuscitation if he arrests.
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HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   In this time of
limited financial resources and reduced
government payments for health care services,
what are the ethical issues of limiting care? How
much uncompensated care can hospitals absorb?
Where do people with no resources go for care?
What is the states responsibility to ensure
health care services? What are the ethical
considerations that should be taken into account?
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HLT 520 Week 1 Ethical Study Review For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Details
Scenario A 96-year-old male patient is admitted
to the ICU with terminal liver cancer. He is
confused and disoriented, very skinny and appears
underfed, and is covered with bruises, which are
common in patients with liver disorders. His
daughter, who is a naturopathic physician,
insists that she can cure her father by
administering unknown substances, some of which
smell like feces and look like tar, down his NG
tube.
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HLT 520 Week 2 Assignment Negligence For more
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Scenario A patient had surgery and the
nurse-anesthetist administered the anesthesia.
The patient subsequently arrested and died while
under anesthesia. An investigation concluded that
the patient was not receiving the needed amount
of oxygen and the nurse-anesthetist missed the
changes in the vital signs until the patient was
close to cardiac arrest. The surgeon initially
had assisted in positioning the patient and had
helped to administer some of the initial
anesthetic.
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HLT 520 Week 2 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Discuss the four
components of a valid contract and apply them to
a contract with a vendor to purchase a new CT
scanner. What would you include in the contract?
How would you be sure it would be valid?
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HLT 520 Week 2 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Since the
hospital/patient relationship is considered a
contract of sorts, how is it affected if the
patient decides to disconnect himself from
telemetry and leave the hospital for 4 hours to
go score some cocaine on the street? What would
you do as a hospital administrator in this
situation?
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HLT 520 Week 2 Law Suit Recommendation Paper For
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Scenario A physician is claiming injury and
damages from a hospital that notified him they
were not renewing his contract for services
provided. The hospital gave him a 4-month notice
and stated that they were exercising this right
because they wanted the department in which the
physician functioned to go in a new direction.
The physician has filed notice of intention to
sue.
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HLT 520 Week 3 Assignment Hospitals Duty to
Ensure Competency (Candler v. Persaud Case
Study) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Details 1) Read the case study, Hospitals
Duty to Ensure Competency on pages 183-184 in
the textbook. 2) Write a paper (1,250-1,500
words) that addresses the case studys two
Discussion prompts. Include a detailed rationale
for your answers.
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HLT 520 Week 3 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   If a physician
develops a history of disruptive behavior,
belittling staff, cursing at coworkers, and being
rude and curt to patients, what are the
responsibilities of the medical staff, the
hospital, and the other professionals involved?
Why do you believe that so many staff may be
reluctant to report a poorly behaving physician?
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HLT 520 Week 3 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What do you see as
the pros and cons of obtaining fair market value
analyses on the compensation paid to physicians,
especially when the market rates are benchmarked
against national standards? How could this
information be used in negotiating rates with
physicians?
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HLT 520 Week 4 Assignment EMTALA For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Scenario You are
the administrator on call for a local hospital
and you receive a call at 200 a.m. from another
local hospital regarding a patient with a broken
upper arm. The ED physicians assistant is
calling to arrange an EMTALA transfer from his
hospital to yours, but the orthopedic physician
on call at your hospital is refusing to accept
the transfer, stating that the patient doesnt
need a higher level of care.
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HLT 520 Week 4 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Discuss your opinion
of the Stark laws, what they are designed to do,
the impact of the exceptions, and whether you
think they are successful in preventing unethical
behavior.
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HLT 520 Week 4 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What kinds of
fraudulent or abusive behavior relating to health
care services can occur in hospital operations?
How does the role of the compliance committee
help to monitor and prevent these?
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HLT 520 Week 5 AssignmentContract Violates
Antitrust Laws (Otiz V. St. Peter's Case
Study) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Details 1) Read the case study (Contract
Violates Antitrust Laws) on pages 100-101 in the
textbook and answer the two discussion
questions. 2) Write a paper (1,000-1,500 words)
that addresses the discussion questions. Include
a detailed rationale for your answers.
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HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   You are a hospital
administrator, and you receive a call from a
colleague at another hospital. Your colleague,
who is a friend, informs you that he has received
a demand for a stipend from the ophthalmologists
who take ED calls at his hospital, and they want
a sizeable raise. He asks you what you pay for
that type of call, and suggests that you could
both benefit by coming up with a standard rate of
pay over which neither of you will go in response
to physician demands. It could save your
hospitals 300,000 to do this. What is your
response, and what is the rationale for it?
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HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Do you think that
hospitals who engage in group purchasing
organizations are engaging in a form of
price-fixing? If yes, then why? If no, then why
not?
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HLT 520 Week 6 Chapter 20 Review Questions
Additional ch. 21 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Details Case Study
2 Mr. P is a 76-year-old male with cardiomyopathy
and congestive heart failure who has been
hospitalized frequently to treat CHF symptoms. He
has difficulty maintaining diet restrictions and
managing his polypharmacy. He has 4 pitting
edema, moist crackles throughout lung fields, and
labored breathing. He has no family other than
his wife, who verbalizes sadness over his
declining health and over her inability to get
out of the house. She is overwhelmed with the
stack of medical bills, as Mr. P always took care
of the financial issues. Mr. P is despondent and
asks why God has not taken him.
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HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Examine the concept
of employment at will and the public policy
exceptions to it. How does it fit with the issue
of wrongful discharge?
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HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What do you see as
the pros and cons of a unionized environment in a
health care facility? How can the right to
collective bargaining by employees and the
mandate to provide care to patients be reconciled?
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HLT 520 Week 7 Brain Death Scenario
Assignment For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   Details Scenario You are the hospital
administrator and are told by your ICU unit
director of a patient in the unit that has
suffered serious brain damage, but is not
currently meeting the criteria for complete brain
death. Half of the family is insisting that the
patient wouldnt want to live this way and the
other half is accusing them of wanting to kill
the patient. Some allegations have been raised
about a substantial inheritance for some family
members upon the patients death. The battle is
becoming intense and it is beginning to disrupt
the medical and nursing staff.
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HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Explore the issues
of how to determine if a patient is mentally
competent to make his or her own decisions,
especially in situations where the decisions do
not appear to make sense.
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HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What are the
differences between a permanent vegetative state
and a coma? How do these differences affect the
ethical choices faced by the family and
caregivers of the patient? What impacts should
the patients own wishes have? How would the
presence of a living will impact the decision?
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HLT 520 Week 8 Bioethics Interview Assignment For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Details
1) Contact the chair of a local hospitals
bioethics committee and interview him/her
regarding the use of the committee at that
facility, how the committee functions, how it
makes https//www.coursehero.com/file/18671384/Bio
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HLT 520 Week 8 Discussion 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   A baby is born with
anencephaly, or absence of the entire brain above
the brainstem. The brainstem is intact, which
means that the baby can breathe and have a heart
beat and blood pressure, but there is no chance
for any human brain function or cognition, due to
this birth defect. The health care team begins to
educate the mother, since children with this
deficit generally die shortly after birth.
However, the mother is devoutly religious, and
her minister has told her that if she prays hard
enough to God, that God will work a miracle and
her babys brain will heal itself. She is
insistent that all possible care be given to her
baby,
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HLT 520 Week 8 Discussion 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   A 94-year-old woman
is admitted to your hospital with dehydration,
trouble breathing, and possible kidney failure.
She is clearly in advanced Alzheimers, weighs
about 95 pounds, and shows multiple bruises on
her body. She cannot talk. Her caregiver
attributes the bruises to a blood disorder that
reduces clotting. What are your thoughts about
this situation? What kind of investigation would
you conduct? What actions would you take to be in
compliance with ethical principles
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