Hlt 520 discussion Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

HLT 520 Topic 4 Discussion Question 2 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?

HLT 520 Topic 7 Discussion Question 1 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.

HLT 520 Topic 6 Discussion Question 2 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?

HLT 520 Topic 7 Discussion Question 2 What are the differences between a permanent vegetative state and a coma? How do these differences affect the ethical choices faced by the family and caregivers of the patient? What importance should the patient's own wishes have? How would the presence of a living will affect the decision?

HLT 520 Topic 5 Discussion Question 1 You are a hospital administrator, and you receive a call from a colleague at another hospital. Your colleague, who is a friend, informs you that he has received a demand for a stipend from the ophthalmologists who take ED calls at his hospital, and they want a sizeable raise. He asks you what you pay for that type of call, and suggests that you could both benefit by coming up with a standard rate of pay over which neither of you will go in response to phy...

HLT 520 Topic 6 Discussion Question 1 Examine the concept of "employment at will" and the public policy exceptions to it. How does it fit with the issue of "wrongful discharge"?

HLT 520 Topic 5 Discussion Question 2 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?

HLT 520 Topic 8 Discussion Question 1 A baby is born with anencephaly, or absence of the entire brain above the brainstem. The brainstem is intact, which means that the baby can breathe and have a heartbeat and blood pressure, but there is no chance for any human brain function or cognition, due to this birth defect. The health care team begins to educate the mother, since children with this deficit generally die shortly after birth. However, the mother is devoutly religious, and her minister...

HLT 520 Topic 2 DQ 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?