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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
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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?
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HLT 520 Week 1 Ethical Study Review For more
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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. 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
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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
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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
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ails 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
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om   Details 1) Read the case study,
Hospitals Duty to Ensure Competency on pages
183-184 in the textbook.
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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
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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
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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)
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ails 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 ED calls at his hospital, and they want
a sizeable raise.
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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
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HLT 520 Week 6 Chapter 20 Review Questions
Additional ch. 21 For more classes
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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
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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
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ails 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
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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
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ails 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/
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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
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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
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