Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health and Social Care This essay will discuss the student’s role within a residential care home in relation to legal and ethical aspects of health and social care. The essay will be looking at legislation that is in place to protect both the residents and staff of the home which is run for the care of young children. This will also look at values and ethics and why they are important. This will then go on to discuss the student’s role as a support worker and their
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Health Care Case Study: Financial Statements University of Phoenix Health Care Financial Accounting HCS/405 December 06‚ 2010 Health Care Case Study: Financial Statements This paper is a health care case study of financial statements for Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. This summary is a review of the annual report and financial statements and the differences between the audited and the unaudited statements. The financial ratios are examined to determine if there has been improvement from
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8 Communication Issues in a Critical Care Unit Good communication in an ICU is a matter of insight and self-awareness‚ not just language skills (Langley and Schmollgruber‚ 2006). There will always be inherent difficulties with the ICU environment because of its unpredictability and lack of quality time for critical care nurses to care for dying patients and the patients’ families. Other problems include communication between doctors‚ nurses‚ and patient’s families in an ICU. It is said that end-of-life
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Association‚ 2015). The current health care system in the United States (U.S.) is inadequate and at the same time expensive too. About 51 million people are completely uninsured and millions underinsured in the U.S. (Physicians For A National Health Program‚ 2015). The recent economic recession and the subsequent unemployment problems made the uninsured and underinsured problem worse. People who belong to these two categories have worse access to the primary health care. Hence‚ they suffer from
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Legal Issues Case Study for Nursing Case 2 Nursing Situation: Cindy Black (fictitious name)‚ a four-year-old child with wheezing‚ was brought into the emergency room by her mother for treatment at XYZ (fictitious name) hospital at 9:12 p.m. on Friday‚ May 13. Initial triage assessment revealed that Cindy was suffering from a sore throat‚ wheezing bilaterally throughout all lung fields‚ seal-like cough‚ shortness of breath (SOB)‚ bilateral ear pain. Vital signs on admission were pulse
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Ethical Issues Facing Health Care Paper Surgery has become commonplace in hospitals around the world. Even the smallest of hospitals have at least one operating room. Surgeons operate in theses operating room. They operate on all types of people. From other doctors to high school dropouts‚ the opportunity for surgery does not take into account the amount of education a patient has obtained. Before any surgery occurs consent must be obtained. Consent is usually in the form of a preprinted letter
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If the player was to sue for the actions that coach Bill Beam did resulting in a severe neck injury and concussion there will be serious consequences for all parties involved with the school organization. First and foremost is without a doubt coach Beam will be fired immediately for physically harming a student athlete by which in any school in the country is not right. The Athletic Director and School will be held liable by the doctrine of Vicarious Liability or Respondent Superior which holds
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The problem This paper discusses the legal and ethical implications in conjunction with performing surgery on disabled people for social reasons. Ethical Katie is immaturity and she has the right like other non-disabled girls to live with her body in tact and she has the same choice to give birth to her own baby. According to the Family Court in Australia and Family Law Act 1975‚ no person under 18 should have hysterectomy unless the procedures are necessary to prevent serious physical and psychological
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Introduction to Health Care Finance (HCA 240) Analyze Contemporary Health Care Issue According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) “health care fraud costs the country an estimated $80 billion dollars a year” ("Health Care Fraud‚" n.d.‚ p. 1). Because health care costs continue to rise more rapidly than the rate of inflation the threat of health care fraud continues to rise. The Affordable Health Care Act has put new policies in place to identify and stop health care fraud. The FBI
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Week 3 Natty Mckiness Employee Legal Issue This week we are discussing employee legal issues. A current issue involves whether employers can refuse to hire smokers in order to save on insurance costs. Several companies have issued such restrictions and have been successful on lawsuits by employees who are smokers. Atlantic Beach‚ FL (near Jacksonville) recently instituted a ban on hiring smokers. The city has implemented a policy that says it won’t hire anyone who uses tobacco products or tests
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