Nursing Worker

Category: Writing Styles

  • Unionized environment in a health care facility

    HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 2 Latest-GCU 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?   MORE INFO    Unionized environment in a health care facility…

  • Determining if a patient is mentally competent to make his or her own decisions

    HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 1 Latest-GCU 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.   MORE INFO  Determining if a patient is mentally competent to make his or her own…

  • Employment at will and wrongful discharge

    HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 1 Latest-GCU Examine the concept of “employment at will” and the public policy exceptions to it. How does it fit with the issue of “wrongful discharge?”     MORE INFO  Employment at will and wrongful discharge Introduction If you’ve ever been fired from your job, then you know how bad…

  • Fraudulent behaviors in hospital operations

    HLT 520 Week 4 Discussion 2 Latest-GCU 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?   MORE INFO  Fraudulent behaviors in hospital operations Introduction Hospital operations are stressful enough, but when you…

  • Group purchasing organizations

    HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 2 Latest-GCU 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?   MORE INFO  Group purchasing organizations Introduction As a healthcare provider, you know that negotiating with suppliers can be difficult and…

  • The pros and cons of obtaining fair market value analyses on the compensation paid to physicians

    HLT 520 Week 3 Discussion 2 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?   MORE INFO  The pros and cons…

  • Contract of sorts

    HLT 520 Week 2 Discussion 2 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?…

  • The Stark laws

    HLT 520 Week 4 Discussion 1 Latest-GCU 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.   MORE INFO  The Stark laws Introduction The Stark laws are a set of federal laws that regulate the…

  • The four components of a valid contract

    HLT 520 Week 2 Discussion 1 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?   MORE INFO  The four components of a valid contract…

  • The ethical issues of limiting care

    HLT 520 Week 1 Discussion 2 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 state’s responsibility to ensure health care services?…