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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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HLT 520 Week 2 Law Suit Recommendation
Paper   For more course tutorials
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A physician is claiming injury and damages from a
hospital that notified him they were not renewing
his contract for services provided.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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HLT 520 Week 8 Bioethics Interview
Assignment   For more course tutorials
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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 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
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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
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