Category: Chemistry

professional, Ethical, and Legal Aspects of Error Disclosure

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Professional, Ethical, and Legal Aspects of Error Disclosure

What are the pros and cons of full and immediate disclosure of errors? When should “near misses” be reported? Error disclosure can be an important—and sometimes complex—issue for those working in health care settings.

To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the various cases and vignettes throughout the Foundations in Patient Safety for Health Professionals textbook and/or conduct research using the Walden library and credible Web sites to locate at least one example of how a health care organization has addressed a situation involving error disclosure.

What are the most effective practices for error disclosure? Evaluate the recommendations presented in the Learning Resources.

What responsibilities do individuals working in health care have in this arena? What legal considerations and ethical codes guide professional practice? Review this week’s Learning Resources, and locate and read the code of ethics associated with your current or future profession.

Post by Day 4 a response to the following:
Briefly analyze a situation involving error disclosure. Provide one or more recommendations of effective practices for disclosing errors that may be applicable to this case.

Describe your current and future legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities with regard to the disclosure of errors. How do you see yourself working with others in this regard? What questions or concerns do you have?
Resources;

Wachter, R., & Pronovost, P. (2009). Balancing “No Blame” with accountability in patient safety. New England Journal of Medicine, 361(14), 1401–1406. Retrieved from
http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=19797289&site=ehost-live&scope=site

This article addresses the issue of individual accountability in health care organizations.
Article: Miller, F. & Emanuel, E. (2008). Quality improvement research and informed consent. New England Journal of Medicine, 358(8) 765–767. Retrieved from
http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=18287598&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Ethical concerns related to quality improvement research are addressed in this article.
Article: Howie, W. (2009). Mandatory reporting of medical errors: Crafting policy and integrating it into practice. Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 5(9), 649–654. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B7XMP-4XFDWSD-7-1&_cdi=29676&_user=7754736&_pii=S1555415509004048&_orig=search&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2009&_sk=999949990&view=c&wchp=dGLbVtz-zSkzV&md5=564eb6c08784cc3ee910e155b9980e9a&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

The author discusses the need for mandatory reporting of errors.

Optional Resources
Course Media: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (1997). Beyond blame: Solutions to America’s other drug problem. Solona Beach, CA. Available for purchase at http://www.psnet.ahrq.gov/resource.aspx?resourceID=1610

 

 

Bus 499 project

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Capstone Project
Due Week 10 and worth 460 points
Select a publicly-traded company by searching the Strayer Databases or the Internet. Download the
annual report for the most recent year reported for use in this assignment. Based on your review and
analysis of the annual report, prepare a 6-8 paper in which you:
1. Identify the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders.
2. Identify the five (5) forces of competition and how it impacts the company.
3. Create a SWOT analysis for the company identifying the major strengths, weakness,
opportunities, and threats.
4. Based on the SWOT analysis, recommend how the company may capitalize on its strengths and
opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
5. Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its
competitiveness and profitability.
6. Determine the recent corporate governance issues that are currently affecting the company’s
decisions and report how the company is or should be handling the issues.
7. Use 4-5 external sources as part of your assignment.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
? Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
? Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s
name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
? Identify the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm.
? Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
? Identify the five forces of competition.
? Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
? Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the
firm’s competitiveness.
? Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
? Describe how corporate governance affects strategic decisions.
? Describe the relationship between strategy and organizational structure.
? Analyze strategic leadership, strategic entrepreneurship, and corporate entrepreneurship.
? Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
? Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics

Case Study: “D. L. Woodside, Sunshine Snacks” (p. 60 of the textbook

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MUST USE THIS BOOK
Daft, R. L. (2011). The leadership experience (5th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western

Chapter 2 Case Study: “D. L. Woodside, Sunshine Snacks” (p. 60 of the textbook) Read the case study and answer the following three questions.

1. What traits does Woodside possess that might be helpful to him as he assumes his new position? What traits might be detrimental?

2. Would you consider Woodside a people-oriented or a task-oriented leader? Discuss which type of leader, people-oriented or task oriented, you think would be best for the new research director at Sunshine?

3. How might an understanding of individualized leadership theory be useful to Woodside in this situation? Discuss your answer.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as a source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Management Theory and Practice – Analysis of an organisation

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Aim grade for 4.5-5 out of 7

need 4-6 references

case study for engineering entrepreneurship and commercialisation
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strategic analysis for your industry and organisation
strategic analysis for your industry and organisation

Description:

Complete the strategic analysis for your industry and organisation which has been emailed to you. You will need to download the annual reports for your organisation and its competitors (Both reports are attached) to get up to date information.
Submission:

The case study assignment is submitted by completing the diagnostic and business plan fields in the Entreact system (https://entreact.eng.uts.edu.au ). Use the Table of Contents page in the Business Plan navigation tree to select the fields you have populated to generate a report.

Hints on using the Entreact Diagnostic

• access the website (https://entreact.eng.uts.edu.au ) with user name (Abdulrahman.Bugshan) password (fd73eb79)
• Under organisation, select ACTTAB Limited.
• Under product/service, select Horse and sports betting.
• Now, in the left hand side, under diagnostic in plan navigation tree, product or service, strategic analysis, marketing and operations will appear.
• Click on each of these sections (except for marketing and operations) , and complete the questions. You should be able to answer them after reading company and industry reports (note if the information you need is not in both reports, access the company website and look for informationhttp://www2.acttab.com.au/site/).
• The purpose of completing these sections is to generate graphs and table from the system that will help in writing the business plan. For example, if you complete the “product influences” under the” product or service”, an icon (market attractiveness) will appear in the top right hand side. If you click on it, a chart will be shown in the screen. This chart will be helpful in writing the report.
• After completing all required sections, click on “business plan” tap on the left hand corner down the page.
• This is the writing part.
• Each section has instruction on what to write. Please write on all of them except for marketing plan and operations plan section
• After completing all sections you can export them to word document by clicking ‘export word’ tab under ‘table of contents’.
• Please note there are two examples of already finished diagnostic and business plans, look at them for more information. You can access both examples by clicking on the organisation tap. The two examples are green storage and bridge test.
• Also I have attached two examples of business plans so you can have idea of what the final report should look like.
20
Ethics and Religion

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You are being given much latitude to decide how you want to present it. (please choose title)
I was born and raised on Hindu family city kathmandu country Nepal. I am here in US for 7 and half years (jan 2005). I have felted the presence of Lord Jesus since 07 as nursing student and witness the power of prayers as Nurse. I am currently enrolled on Christian College for RN to BSN program and working on long term acute care in hospital(since I graduated on 09).

 

Determinants of health HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand

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Title: Determinants of Health HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand
An essay/literature review of 2500 words +/-10%, excluding references and tables on the current situation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand, in Vancouver style, including likely factors that may be contributing towards the current incidence rates of HIV. Critically appraise on what has been done to down scale HIV infection and the roll out of treatment of AIDS. Then, draft an advice to the Ministry of Health on the relative priority that should be given to treatment and prevention over the next five years. Argue why this priority should be given.
Current situation = You may discuss on magnitude/burden of disease, relative comparison regionally and globally, trend of the disease – on increasing or decreasing, health policy with regards to the disease, available and existing health care delivery system, etc, etc. Where necessary you need to indicate how factors/determinants relate to each other. Include the impact of globalization on the health problem. The essay should contain a critical analysis of the health problem in the light of current theory and evidence. You are expected to do a search using the library and internet sources on the topic of your essay and describe how you did your search.(Methodology)
The essay should have:

-a head: a clear problem statement and an introduction to the problem, stating its significance and relevance,
-the search strategy and key-words you used to identify articles.
– the Dahlgren and Whitehead conceptual model from which the body will be structured
-a body: information you found on the different determinants that influence the problem, with a critical analysis on their importance and interactions. The different determinants should be clearly outlined as subheadings within the body.
discussion /conclusions and recommendations (Indicate here how the Ministry of Health could contribute), relating to your most important findings.
Assessment criteria: -clearly presented / logical flow of argument /well structured (head, body, tail) /critical analysis of problem and its contributing factors / shows signs of original thinking /search strategy described / referencing in Vancouver style.
Important points
– The search engines and references should primarily be from Pub med, Scopus and published peer-reviewed articles in journals, in English. The search should focus on, but not be restricted to publications in the past five years;
– the Dahlgren and Whitehead- model should be used to describe and discuss the determinants of health for “HIV” in Thailand;
– as you know, the sex-workers in Thailand are the main HIV spreading problem in Thailand.
Important:I send you an example of assignment about dominican republic ,which is exactly the way I need to do this assignment please follow this example as dahlgrane and whitehead model, vancouver style referencing, figures should be add here,the search engine with pub med ,scholar and etc, this is not a normal assignment and to not to have problems we had last time, please pay attention to the example of the dominican republic and Dahlgrane and white head model step by step,following the titles one by one:
Table of Content
Abbreviations
Introduction
Methods
Results
– Age sex and constitutional factors
– Individual Lifestyle factors
– Social and community network
– Living and Working conditions
– Socioeconomically cultural and environmental factors
Conclusion and Discussion
Recommendations
References
please let me know via mail if there are any question, to avoid the last assignment problems,thanks
p.s. The last assignment was not good ,so if you have a writer who is familiar with public health Dahlgrane and white head rainbow model essays(like example I send you) will be great.

 

 

Ethical conflict

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Responsibilities of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations

In 2006, 59% of the hospitals in the United States were nonprofit. As you read in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on nonprofit hospitals, a hospital must provide benefit to the community to maintain this tax-exempt status, but there is some latitude from the Internal Revenue Service and other governmental agencies about what qualifies as community benefit.

In this Discussion, you will analyze the extent to which a nonprofit hospital is legally and ethically responsible to provide community benefit, using the ACHE decision-making model to guide your analysis of the following scenario:

The management team of Memorial Medical Center (MMC) must make a decision regarding the continuation of one of its outpatient clinics. To provide better community service, MMC developed three outpatient clinics throughout a large metropolitan area. Over the past several years, one of the clinics has consistently been a financial loser. The losses have grown even as the costs of maintaining the clinic have increased. A primary reason for the negative financial performance is the high amount of non-reimbursed health care services—the clinic provides needed health care to a low-income part of the metropolitan area.

Several members of the executive management team believe that MMC has no alternative other than closing the clinic. One member of the management team, however, believes that the situation raises ethical concerns and that the executive team needs to seek an ethics-grounded response to the problem. (Nelson, p. 9)

These are the question to answer below. (To prepare for this Discussion):

•Review the GAO report (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08880.pdf), paying particular attention to its discussion about criteria for nonprofit status.
•Review the article “An Organizational Ethics Decision-Making Process,” and apply the steps of the decision-making model to this scenario, going into more detailed analysis than is already provided in the article. What options does this hospital have? Clarify your ethical reasoning for each option.
•If you were an administrator at MMC, what decision would you make.

 

Article to read to answer the question along with your own.
•Article: Nelson, W. A. (2005). An organizational ethics decision-making process. Healthcare Executive, 20(4), 8–14. Retrieved from http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=17407169&site=ehost-live&scope=site

This reading was assigned in Week 2. Review it with this week’s content in mind. You will be applying the ethical decision-making model in Discussion 1.

•Article: Callendar, A. N., Hastings, D. A., Hemsley, M. C., Morris, L., & Peregrine, M. W. (n.d.). Corporate responsibility and health care quality: A resource for health care boards of directors. Retrieved Nov. 23, 2009, from http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/complianceguidance/CorporateResponsibilityFinal%209-4-07.pdf(PDF Document)

This article offers guidance to health care organization corporate directors regarding elements of the quality oversight process, including measurement tools and requirements for health care quality and reporting.
•Report: U.S. Government Accountability Office. (2008). Nonprofit hospitals: Variation in standards and guidance limits comparison of how hospitals meet community benefit requirements. Retrieved from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08880.pdf (PDF Document)

?”Letter” (pp. 1–40)

ACHE Policy Statement: Ethical Decision Making for Healthcare Executives
http://www.ache.org/policy/decision.cfm

 

 

16
Moral Courage and the Administrator’s Responsibilities

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Moral Courage and the Administrator’s Responsibilities

As a health care administrator, you will have responsibilities to many people—to your employees, to the patients and their families, to the executive board, and to the agencies that monitor the organization’s behavior. There may be times when your obligations will apparently conflict with each other. What will you do then?

For this Discussion, you will reflect on your responsibilities as a health care administrator and describe the importance of moral courage in performing well in that role.

To prepare for this Discussion:

Bring to mind the kind of organization for which you hope to work as an administrator. To whom would you be responsible—for example, to patients, the governing board, the Joint Commission, the CEO, the staff, the community, your own conscience? What are the legal and ethical issues that could arise when these duties conflict? Think of an example of apparently conflicting obligations that would pose a challenge to you.

Define for yourself what moral courage means. How important is it for an administrator to exhibit moral courage? What is the effect on others in an organization if an administrator models ethical and legal behavior or, on the contrary, illegal or unethical behavior?
These are the question to be answered
To whom and for whom is an administrator responsible?

Why is moral courage important for an administrator, particularly in the face of conflict?

Briefly describe a scenario in which an administrator’s legal and ethical responsibilities might conflict, and moral courage is needed. What would you do in that situation, and why?

What do you expect the effect on others would be by your demonstrating ethical and legal behavior and showing moral courage?
Resource: Please use additional resources

 

Callendar, A. N., Hastings, D. A., Hemsley, M. C., Morris, L., & Peregrine, M. W. (n.d.). Corporate responsibility and health care quality: A resource for health care boards of directors. Retrieved Nov. 23, 2009, from http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/complianceguidance/CorporateResponsibilityFinal%209-4-07.pdf(PDF Document)

Determinants of health HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand
Order Instructions:
Title: Determinants of Health HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand
An essay/literature review of 2500 words +/-10%, excluding references and tables on the current situation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand, in Vancouver style, including likely factors that may be contributing towards the current incidence rates of HIV. Critically appraise on what has been done to down scale HIV infection and the roll out of treatment of AIDS. Then, draft an advice to the Ministry of Health on the relative priority that should be given to treatment and prevention over the next five years. Argue why this priority should be given.
Current situation = You may discuss on magnitude/burden of disease, relative comparison regionally and globally, trend of the disease – on increasing or decreasing, health policy with regards to the disease, available and existing health care delivery system, etc, etc. Where necessary you need to indicate how factors/determinants relate to each other. Include the impact of globalization on the health problem. The essay should contain a critical analysis of the health problem in the light of current theory and evidence. You are expected to do a search using the library and internet sources on the topic of your essay and describe how you did your search.(Methodology)
The essay should have:

-a head: a clear problem statement and an introduction to the problem, stating its significance and relevance,
-the search strategy and key-words you used to identify articles.
– the Dahlgren and Whitehead conceptual model from which the body will be structured
-a body: information you found on the different determinants that influence the problem, with a critical analysis on their importance and interactions. The different determinants should be clearly outlined as subheadings within the body.
discussion /conclusions and recommendations (Indicate here how the Ministry of Health could contribute), relating to your most important findings.
Assessment criteria: -clearly presented / logical flow of argument /well structured (head, body, tail) /critical analysis of problem and its contributing factors / shows signs of original thinking /search strategy described / referencing in Vancouver style.
Important points
– The search engines and references should primarily be from Pub med, Scopus and published peer-reviewed articles in journals, in English. The search should focus on, but not be restricted to publications in the past five years;
– the Dahlgren and Whitehead- model should be used to describe and discuss the determinants of health for “HIV” in Thailand;
– as you know, the sex-workers in Thailand are the main HIV spreading problem in Thailand.
Important:I send you an example of assignment about dominican republic ,which is exactly the way I need to do this assignment please follow this example as dahlgrane and whitehead model, vancouver style referencing, figures should be add here,the search engine with pub med ,scholar and etc, this is not a normal assignment and to not to have problems we had last time, please pay attention to the example of the dominican republic and Dahlgrane and white head model step by step,following the titles one by one:
Table of Content
Abbreviations
Introduction
Methods
Results
– Age sex and constitutional factors
– Individual Lifestyle factors
– Social and community network
– Living and Working conditions
– Socioeconomically cultural and environmental factors
Conclusion and Discussion
Recommendations
References
please let me know via mail if there are any question, to avoid the last assignment problems,thanks
p.s. The last assignment was not good ,so if you have a writer who is familiar with public health Dahlgrane and white head rainbow model essays(like example I send you) will be great.

 

Concepts of Quality and Patient Safety

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Application: Institute of Medicine Reports
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization whose work has helped draw attention to quality concerns in health care. Two IOM reports, To Err is Human and Crossing The Quality Chasm, particularly stand out for the provocative effect that they have had on quality improvement efforts.
To prepare for this Application, review this week’s Learning Resources, including the executive summaries of the two IOM reports and the article “Patient Safety at Ten: Unmistakable Progress, Troubling Gaps.”
The Assignment
Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

From your perspective as a health care professional and/or consumer, summarize two or three of the most important messages of the IOM reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm.

Analyze at least two of the changes proposed in these reports, and explain how they are expected to contribute toward the desired improvements.

Briefly assess some of the challenges related to these changes. (Select at least one challenge for each change you have chosen to focus on.)

 

Resources;

Please use those refrences:

Report: Institute of Medicine. (1999). To err is human. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/lib/waldenu/docDetail.action?docID=10038653

Executive summary

Released in 1999, this groundbreaking report provides the rationale for implementing comprehensive improvements in patient safety, an important subset of health care quality. Although only the executive summary is required this week, you are strongly encouraged to read additional sections of this report as you proceed through the course.
Report: Institute of Medicine. (2001). Crossing the quality chasm: A new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
Retrieved from http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2001/Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm-A-New-Health-System-for-the-21st-Century.aspx

Select the link that says Click here for full text, and it will load the library’s 360 link page. The options for accessing the title are listed. To link to the title in ebrary or Net Library, select the Book link.

Executive Summary

This report was published by the Institute of Medicine in 2001 to highlight the significant gap between the state of health care quality and where it should be. The report draws attention to the need to improve the U.S. health care delivery system as a whole, and identifies six areas for improvement: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity. Although only the executive summary is required this week, you are strongly encouraged to read additional sections of this report as you proceed through the course.

Web Article: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (n.d.). Quality/Equality: Talking about quality. Retrieved from http://www.rwjf.org/qualityequality/taq.jsp

This resource presents health care statistics, facts, and messages related to health care quality and reform. The collection of slides describes the current state of health care quality, goals for the future, and ways to achieve those goals.

NB: there is another resource to be uploaded but it must be as an attachment..Please let me know how i can upload it..its important for this paper as well. Also please use the resources given along with others you may use.