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    Ethical Issue Facing Health Care Paper.

    Find a current issue in a newspaper, magazine, or journal article relating to the objectives for the week, or related to your research ethics paper. Write a paper that discusses the following: a. Describe the issue and the population it most impacts b. Identify any proposed solutions to issue c. Describe how

    Ethics and Patient Care

    Late night in the ER at St. Whocare's - an elderly person presents himself and requests service. What ethical principles must guide your practice with dealing with an elderly person with suicidal ideation, severe pain and the potential for an immediate amputation?

    Addressing Educated Patient Concerns

    Moral and ethical issues underlie provider/patient relationships and the difficult decisions resulting from the vast increase in treatment options are now in the domains of law, politics, journalism, health institution administrations, and the public. How do you adequately address the concerns of a patient "armed" with reams of

    Pro-Choice Abortion Debate

    Using somewhere between 1200-1400 words write a explanation/arqument for each item. Each item SHOULD NOT be 1200-1400 words but when you add them all together be somewhere in this range when done. Please included references if used. Pro-Choice: Mother's reserving the right to terminate a pregnancy . Critical to wome

    Performance Measures for Fiscal Solvency

    Within health care organizations, numerous performance measures are used to determine fiscal solvency. What are these measures and are these performance measures applied equally across all clinical programs and services?

    Confidentiality.

    You are a bachelor level human services professional working as a therapeutic aide (mental health technician) in a community mental health center where you have a client who is 17. He reveals that he has a baby on the way with his current girlfriend; he asks you not to tell his parents about this. He lives with his parents and

    Limited Resources and Quality Health Care

    How do you deal with limited resources when you are responsible for providing quality care and for meeting regulatory or legislative standards, guidelines, or goals? What strategies do you use to respond to competing objectives and conflicting priorities in highly regulated environments.

    Quality Assurance is defined

    Quality Assurance focuses on identifying exceptionally poor care - based on the "Bad Apple Theory," and based on the presumption that the best way to ensure quality was to identify the bad apples and remove or rehabilitate them. Is this the best way? What will this ultimately do to patient care?

    Health Care in America

    (1) Evaluate at least two different historical perspectives on the delivery of health care in America. How has technology and the lack of developing technology affected these perspectives? (2) Compare and contrast two technological advances that have affected health care delivery in America. (3) How have these changing tec

    Future of Healthcare.

    1. How has the role of government changed in the U.S. health care system, and what future trends in government involvement do you anticipate? 2. Describe the differences in health care systems for the middle class, the poor, and the elderly. 3. How is health affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure? 4. Des

    Patient Satisfaction Outcomes

    Could someone please help with describing two approaches or indicators to measuring patient outcomes. Measuring the quality of care is essential to being able to identify which areas of patient care need improvement. A positive patient outcome is one measure of quality. What role do health care workers play in determining quali

    Ethical issues facing healthcare are embedded.

    Find a current issue in a newspaper, magazine, or journal article relating to health care ethics. describe the issue and the population it most impacts, Identify any proposed solutions to issue, describe how the article used facts about the healthcare arena to support the issue and/or solutions. Use 3 apa sources.

    Public Health

    What are some social, political and financial barriers in our current health care system that impede primary prevention?

    Ethics and Legal Issues in Healthcare Organizational Policy

    In your next manager meeting you will be discussing the following topic. Write down your position on this issue so you are ready for the meeting: a. Healthcare organizations should get rid of employees that do not match their organizational culture. b. In your answer discuss any potential legal or ethical issues that might

    Consent to terminate care

    Discuss the ethical implications of the Terri Schiavo case. Be sure to identify and discuss competing rights and interests as well as applicable ethical theories and principles. Also, discuss the right of the husband versus her parents in the context of consent to terminate care.

    Quality in Healthcare

    What constitutes "quality" in healthcare and what are the essential components of quality (aspects of quality).

    Ethics - changes associated with the American Healthcare system

    Consider the costs associated with the American healthcare system, the contentions associated with managed care implementation, and the continued problems associated with macro and microallocation within this system. 1.What ethics do you believe should guide continuing change in the American health care delivery system?

    Reproductive Rights, Assisted Reproductive Technology

    By now we are all have some familiarity with the case of Nadya Suleman who, in January 2009, gave birth to octuplets at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Bellflower, California. When news of the birth first came out there was great excitement and anticipation about the mother and the family. As more information surfaced about th

    The Ethics of the Human Geome Project and Cloning

    Please respond to the following scenario. Provide a brief answer with your opinion on the matter. The year is 2012 and as a result, of The Human Genome Project and others, cloning of human beings is possible. You have taken a strong stand that generalized cloning of human beings is ethically and morally wrong. Unfortunately,

    Ethical Decision Making: Ethical Theories and Principles

    Consider Alex, an x-ray technology student who has never performed procedures on emergency room patients. As part of his training Alex is rotating through the emergency room and has been asked to take x-rays of the head and neck of an alert yet seriously injured patient Mr. Hanson. The x-ray supervisor/instructor, Ms. Dubois,

    Ethics are debated.

    Some believe that ethics is "saying and doing what is right - at the time." Some believe in "eternal ethics" - which holds that regardless of time and place, conduct and behavior is either ethical or unethical. What do you think? Which do you agree with?

    Healthcare Ethics

    Is it reasonable or wise to ask those committed to preserving and extending life to act as thanatologists? Must physicians meet their patient's demands for aid in dying through active mean? Have patientss who cannot assist in suicide a right to voluntary active Euthanasia? Please include references.

    Health Care Ethics

    Are laws and regulations the problem or the solution in addressing ethical problems? How do moral philosophies and principles provide the ethical framework for the delivery of health services by individuals and organizations? How do moral philosophies provide the foundation for health care managers to develop their own per

    Health care Ethics are examined.

    What ethical principles most guide your organization's decision-making when a conflict arises? What is the sphere of influence of your organization's Ethics Committee?

    Community Program Plans

    What is the need for the program mission statement, goals, and program objectives to "fit" the target population? Why should program planners be concerned with program goals/objectives/ that have been developed by health care professions only?