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HLT 520 Inspiring Minds/newtonhelp.com
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HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 1

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• 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.
  She insists that he stay in the hospital, and is
  very upset that he was transferred out of the ICU
  and his care was moved to comfort measures,
  rather than aggressive treatment.

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HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 2

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• 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

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• 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.

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HLT 520 Week 2 Assignment Negligence

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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.

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HLT 520 Week 2 Discussion 1

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• 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

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• 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

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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)

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 1) Read the case study (Contract Violates
  Antitrust Laws) on pages 100-101 in the textbook
  and answer the two discussion questions.

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HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 1

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• 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.

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HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 2

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• 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

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• 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.

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HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 1

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 1

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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
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HLT 520 Week 8 Discussion 1

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• 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.

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HLT 520 Week 8 Discussion 2

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• 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.

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