HSM 542 WEEKLY DISCUSSIONS {11 VERSIONS WEEK 1-WEEK 7 WITH COMPREHENSIVE ELABORATIONS}

HSM 542 Week 1 Discussion 2: Most Pressing Ethical Issues What do you see as the most pressing ethical issue in healthcare today? Tell us why you see this issue as particularly compelling from an ethical perspective.

HSM-542 Week 2 Discussion 1: Delineation of Clinical Privileges How does a hospital medical staff determine that a physician applicant is qualified and competent to perform all procedures requested on his or her delineation of clinical privileges? By way of process, what happens next once the medi...

HSM 542 Week 2 Discussion 2: Ethics Committee Identify an issue that an institutional ethics committee may have to face in a healthcare setting. Discuss what the ethics committee might do in that scenario and how its decision might impact the operations and policies of the healthcare organization.

What were the key elements of the court’s holding in Roe v. Wade? Should the stage of pregnancy determine a woman’s right to an abortion? What are the rights of fathers? Regardless of your personal opinions and religious beliefs on abortion, try to identify the legal principles and parameters ou...

HSM 542 Week 3 Discussion 2: New Reproductive Technologies Respond to a current advance in reproductive technology. Post a 1- to 2-minute multimedia piece recapping the news article and providing your summary of the ethical and legal issues for providers, the parents, and the unborn child. In ad...

HSM 542 Week 4 Discussion 1: Informed Consent Explore what is meant by informed consent from a legal perspective. What are the key elements that must … in order to obtain legal informed consent? And why is this concept so important to patients, providers, and healthcare organizations?

What are the key provisions of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)? Why was this legislation … and what were the goals? What must hospitals and other healthcare providers do to ensure their compliance with PSDA?

The Joint Commission has recently visited Little Falls Hospital for its accreditation visit. Overall, the survey went well except for the standards related to the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals. The Joint Commission surveyors indicated that the hospital has not devoted enough resources and staff...

Based upon your learning in this course and your own personal and/or professional experiences, what are the essential reforms that must occur in the U.S. healthcare system in order to improve access, cost, and quality of care for all Americans? What does this legislation look like?

HSM 542 Week 7 Discussion 2: International Healthcare Choose one aspect of international healthcare that you would implement in the United States through legislation or other means? (… specific with rationale and justification and details about legal and ethical implications of your proposed ch...