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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
very upset that he was transferred out of the ICU
and his care was moved to comfort measures,
rather than
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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
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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
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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
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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 more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   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
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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.
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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
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HLT 520 Week 4 Assignment EMTALA For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Scen
ario 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
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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 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 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
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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
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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 visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Details   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
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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
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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 https//www.coursehero.com/file/18671384/
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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
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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
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