Legal and Ethical Responsibilities MGT/567 May 20‚ 2013 Legal and Ethical Responsibilities MEMORANDUM TO: Company Owner FROM: Vice President of Human Resources DATE: May 20‚ 2013 SUBJECT: Cost Effectiveness This memo is in response to the company’s decrease in sales and profit because of the current state of the economy. The company will be executing more cost-effective measures because of this present situation. These new procedures will begin immediately with approval
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Fulcher: Pharmacology‚ 3rd Edition Chapter 01: Introduction to Pharmacology and Its Legal and Ethical Aspects Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The definition of drug dosage is |a. |to give a medication | |b. |the amount of medication in a single dose | |c. |chemicals that affect living processes
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When is it OK to Break Confidentiality? Confidentiality is central to trust between doctors‚ medical team and patients. Patients have a right to expect that information about them will be held in confidence. The birth of the Hippocratic Oath in the fourth century started the responsibility of physicians to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of their patients. One of the provisions of the Oath lays the ethical foundation for the physician’s duty of confidentiality even beyond the circumstances
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What is the difference between Information Systems and Information Technology? In: Computer Terminology‚ Technology‚ Information Technology [Edit categories] Answer: Information Systems is a large umbrella referring to systems designed to create‚ store‚ manipulate‚ or disseminate information. Example of an information system is a pencil and a piece of paper. The two objects themselves are just tools‚ but together they create a system for writing (information). The term Information systems has been around
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the fact that there are many guidelines. All guidelines are very important. However‚ arguably the most important guideline which applies to all medical workers is patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality‚ in compliance with HIPAA‚ is beneficial because it keeps the patient’s morale and dignity safe‚ creates trust between the patient and physician‚ and allows the patient to be autonomous. HIPAA‚ or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability‚ was implemented in 1996 by Congress. One
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handling information: 1.2Legal requirements and codes of practice: issues relating to the legal requirements for secure recording of information eg the common law duty of confidence‚ the legal requirements for accuracy of information and for information to kept up-to-date‚ obtaining personal data only for specific‚ lawful purposes and for personal data to be relevant and not excessive for its purpose; issues relating to the legal requirements for the secure storage of information eg the legal requirements
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Professor: Nix HIT 220 Legal & Reg Issues-Health Information 7/13/2012 The Release of Information policies has had its ups and downs throughout the medical industry. The release of information falls on the reasonability of HIM professionals and alike. The fact is all involved parties such as: patients‚ lawyers‚ physicians‚ nurses‚ nurse practitioners‚ patient family members‚ and most importantly the insurance companies. All play a role in making sure the release of patient information is being secured
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Reaction Statement 2: Confidentiality Do therapists bear the duty to use reasonable care in order to warn a third party of foreseeable danger? The majority opinion in the Tarasoff case is more ethically sound. The strongest argument against my opinion is that by imposing that a doctor has the duty to breach confidentiality in order to warn a third party of a potential threat can greatly impair treatment. The most important factor in ensuring that a patient receives successful treatment is
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Maintaining and developing a counselling relationship Counselling is a process that enables a person to clarify issues that are problematic and to take decisions about managing their lives better. “Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having‚ distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life‚ or loss of sense of direction or purpose. It is always at the request of the client as
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attraction between like-molecules within a body or substance that acts to unite them. Water‚ for example‚ is strongly cohesive as each molecule may make four hydrogen bonds to other water molecules in a tetrahedral configuration. This results in a relatively strong Coulomb force between molecules. Van der Waals gases such as methane‚ however‚ have weak cohesion due only to Van der Waals forces that operate by induced polarity in non-polar molecules. Cohesion‚ along with adhesion (attraction between unlike
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