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What are the medical care issues?

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LEGAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN HEALTHCARE

legal ethical principles in healthcare
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 “wouldn’t 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 patient’s death. The battle is becoming intense and it is beginning to disrupt the medical and nursing staff.
1) Write an analysis (1,250-1,500 words) of the situation from an ethical and legal perspective. Address the following questions:
a) What are the ethical issues?
b) What are the legal issues?
c) What are the medical care issues?
d) What actions would you take? Why? How?
e) What resources would you tap?
2) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
3) This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
This assignment must be well written, plagarism free and reflect master level writing. Must use APA format and proper grammar and sentence structure. I do not want to redo the assignment after Ive paid for it.

RESEARCH HOW DIFFERENT FORMS OF TECHNOLOGY HAVE IMPROVED MEDICAL CARE

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RESEARCH HOW DIFFERENT FORMS OF TECHNOLOGY HAVE IMPROVED MEDICAL CARE

Your initial thesis and outline for your course project paper are due this module. Prepare a 1-2 page document containing you thesis and outline. Your outline will be the skeleton from which you will write your project. Your outline should contain an idea for your introduction, thesis, and at least two sections of a body comprised of a discussion on the technology advances. You may use any standard outline format. An idea for a conclusion should come at the end. For a summary of requirements, see the original assignment inModule 02 Course Project – Introduction.
 

Project Overview

Your project for this course is to develop a paper that provides an overview of how technology has been used to improve medical care. You have a choice of two options for this project:
Option 1 – Pick one or two of the medical specialties listed below. Research how different forms of technology have improved medical care in those specialties.
 
These medical specialties include:

  • Allergy and Immunology
  • Anesthesiology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • Clinical Biochemical Genetics
  • Clinical Cytogenetic
  • Clinical Generics
  • Clinical Molecular Genetics
  • Medical Genetics
  • Neurological Surgery
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Otolaryngology
  • Clinical Pathology
  • Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology
  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Pediatrics
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Surgery
  • Vascular Surgery
  • Thoracic Surgery
  • Urology

Option 2 – Select an area of Health Information Technology (Laboratory, Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Home Health, Long Term Care, Nursing Homes Administrative, Radiology, Clinical Trials, Public Health, Prison System, Dental, Telemedicine, etc.) and research how that area uses healthcare delivery and health information technology.

The Nurse’s Role in Supporting the Organization’s Strategic Agenda

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THE NURSE’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING THE ORGANIZATION’S STRATEGIC AGENDA

The Nurse’s Role in Supporting the Organization’s Strategic Agenda
As hospitals seek to reduce the incidence of Never Events and improve the overall quality of health care provided, it is apparent that ultimate success will require the effort of the entire medical staff. Consider the nurse’s role in supporting the organization’s strategic agenda as it relates to improving clinical outcomes.
For this application you are asked to interview a quality manager in an acute care or long-term care agency of your choice. Your goal is to determine the manager’s view regarding the impact of the direct care nurse’s role in clinical outcomes for the organization. How does this influence the ability of the organization to achieve its strategic agenda? Before you attend the interview, create a list of relevant questions that will help you better understand the effect a nurse can have on the successful treatment of the patient.
Write a 2- to 3-page paper discussing what you learned from this interview. How will what you learned impact how you approach your nursing responsibilities?

DISCUSS SOME WAYS THAT A HOSPITAL MIGHT MEASURE QUALITY.

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DISCUSS SOME WAYS THAT A HOSPITAL MIGHT MEASURE QUALITY.

Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital is a privately owned 600-bed facility. The hospital provides a broad range of health care services, including complete laboratory and X-ray facilities, an emergency room, an intensive care unit, a cardiac care unit, and a psychiatric ward. Most of these services are provided by several other hospitals in the metropolitan area. Memorial has purposely avoided getting involved in any specialized fields of medicine or obtaining very specialized diagnostic equipment because it was felt that such services would not be cost-effective. The General Hospital, located only a few miles from Memorial, is affiliated with the local School of Medicine and offers up-to-date services in those specialized areas. Instead of trying to compete with General Hospital to provide special services, Memorial Hospital has concentrated on offering high-quality general health care at an affordable price. Compared with the much larger General Hospital, Memorial stresses close personal attention to each patient from a nursing staff that cares about its work. In fact, the hospital has begun to place ads in newspapers and on television, stressing its patient-oriented care.
However, the hospital’s administrator, Janice Fry, is concerned about whether the hospital can really deliver on its promises, and worries that failure to provide the level of health care patients expect could drive patients away. Janice met recently with the hospital’s managerial personnel to discuss her concerns. The meeting raised some questions about how the hospital’s quality of health care could be assured. Jessica Tu, director of nursing, raised the question, “How do we measure the quality of health care? Do we give patients a questionnaire when they leave, asking if they were happy here? That does not seem to answer the question because we could make a patient happy, but give them lousy health care.” Several other questions were asked concerning the hospital’s efforts to keep costs down. Some people were concerned that an emphasis on costs would be detrimental to quality. They argued that when a person’s life is at stake, costs should not be of concern.
After the meeting, Janice began thinking about these questions. She remembered reading recently that some companies were using total quality management (TQM) to improve their quality. She liked the idea—if it could be used in a hospital.
Discuss some ways that a hospital might measure quality.
What are the potential costs of quality for Memorial Hospital? How could the value of a human life be included?
Are there any ideas or techniques from TQM that Janice could use to help Memorial focus on providing quality health care?
What measures could Memorial use to assess the quality of health care it is providing?