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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
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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
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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
un
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HLT 520 Week 2 Assignment Negligence   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Details
Scenario A patient had surgery and the
nurse-anesthetist administered the anesthesia.
The patient subsequently arrested and died while
under
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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
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HLT 520 Week 2 Law Suit Recommendation
Paper   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Details 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
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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.c
om   Details 1) Read the case study,
Hospitals
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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
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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
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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
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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.c
om   Details 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   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
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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
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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
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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 union
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HLT 520 Week 7 Brain Death Scenario
Assignment   For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   Details Scenario You are the
hospital administrator and are told by your ICU
unit director of a patient in the unit
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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
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HLT 520 Week 8 Bioethics Interview
Assignment   For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.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
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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
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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
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