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HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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.
She insists that he stay in the hospital, and is
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HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 2  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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HLT 520 Week 1 Ethical Study Review For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Deta
ils   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. He is clearly in pain after she does
this. She insists that these are life-savin
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  HLT 520 Week 2 Assignment Negligence For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Deta
ils   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
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HLT 520 Week 2 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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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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
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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 addres
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HLT 520 Week 3 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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HLT 520 Week 4 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Details   1) Read
the case study (Contract Violates
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HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 2  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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
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HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
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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
t
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HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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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/
Bioethics-Committee/  decisions and
recommendations, and the chairs views on the
impact the committee has had on the facility. If
possible, attend one of the committees meetings.
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HLT 520 Week 8 Discussion 1  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 shor
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HLT 520 Week 8 Discussion 2  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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