MHA 5101 Unit VIII Course Project

The course project provides you with an opportunity to choose one medical law or medical ethics issue of special interest and to study that issue at a deeper level for further understanding and application. This five to seven page (double-spaced) paper must critically analyze the issues related to the selected topic, with the textbook, web resources, and professional journal articles (which may also be found online) being utilized to complete the project. Please be sure to cite all references using APA format to avoid plagiarism. The paper must be submitted in APA format. Please contact the Student Success Center for complimentary assistance with APA formatting and writing tutoring.

In your Course Project, be sure to include:

·         Description of your selected issue

·         Discussion of how the issue impacts healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations

·         Impact of your selected issue on patients and families

·         Critical analysis of the issue, including at least one specific case example

·         Significance of the issue to the practice of healthcare administration

·         Recommendations for approaches to deal with the issue

Possible Course Project Issues:

·         Medicare-funded organ transplants

·         Medicaid-funded organ transplants

·         Death with Dignity Act of Oregon

·         Genetic engineering

·         Institutional review boards and medical research

·         Hospital ethics committees – roles and responsibilities

·         Medical staff credentialing

·         Disruptive physicians

·         Living wills

·         Durable power of attorney for healthcare

·         Ethics of managed care

·         Legal aspects of managed care

·         Universal healthcare – Is it right for America?

·         Cost-shifting in healthcare

·         The Joint Commission – role in healthcare

·         The Joint Commission – alternatives

·         Patient safety in healthcare

·         Complementary and alternative healthcare – ethical issues

·         Complementary and alternative healthcare – legal issues

·         Nursing practice – ethical issues

·         Nursing practice – legal issues

·         Allied health practice – ethical issues

·         Allied health practice – legal issues

·         Medical practice – ethical issues

·         Medical practice – legal issues

·         New reproductive technology – ethical issues

·         New reproductive technology – legal issues

·       Landmark cases – Select any one landmark case in healthcare law and present your own summary of the facts, issue, finding and reason. Critically analyze the case, and explain your agreement or disagreement with the court’s finding.

·       Other topics – The course project can certainly be completed on another issue not listed above. If you are selecting a topic which is not listed above, please obtain approval from your professor before beginning your work.

The Course Project is worth 100 points and is due by the end of Unit VIII.

Dimensions Of Nursing Exam 2

1. All of the following are true about the nursing code of ethics except:

2. The nurse is assigned to see a home-bound client on a daily basis to prepare the client’s medications. The nurse fails to visit the client and does not request that another nurse visit the client. The client is later admitted to the hospital after taking the wrong dosage of medication. Which ethical concept does this situation reflect?

3. A client is held down by the nurse and forced to have a nasogastric tube placed. Which of the following could this represent?
 

4. When applying the nursing process, which of the following should always be addressed first?

5. How can most living organisms be classified in general systems theory?

6. Which of the following are the steps to the nursing process? select all that apply

A) Planning

B) Implementation

D) Diagnosis

E) Evaluation

F) Assess

7. What type of tort may occur if a client is not allowed to leave the hospital after receiving emergency care until the bill is paid?

8. Which of the following is the best substitute for self-determination if an individual is no longer competent to make their own health care decisions?

9. Does clinical reasoning and judgment require various ways of thinking in the role of a nurse?

10. A client complains of hip pain and requests pain medication. For the nurse to apply the nursing process, what would the nurse do next?

11. The client’s short term outcome was to walk in the hallway by the end of the day. The nurse reviews the client outcome, determines that it was not met, and modifies the interventions. Which phase of the nursing process is this?

12. Which of the following phases of the nursing process determines client problems, risks, and strengths?

13. What is another term that can be used for professional negligence?

14. An example of invasion of privacy would be:

15. The client must have a treatment requiring an informed consent. Whose role is it to review the proposed treatment and its associated risks with the client?

16. Team building, nurse retention, and patient satisfaction are all benefits of being sensitive to personality types.

17. Why is it important for nurses to understand and use a nursing theory or model in practice?

18. Which of the following theorists authored the Model of Goal Attainment?

19. A client suffered a ruptured appendix and had to have an open appendectomy. She is post-op day 1. She is able to perform many of her activities of daily living independently, such as wash her face, brush her teeth, feed herself, and reposition. However, she requires assistance to care for her indwelling urinary catheter, Jackson-Pratt drain, and change her dressing. Which of the following describes the level of care the nurse provides according to Orem’s self-care model?