What is the health issue that is being described or addressed? What are the proposed solutions (if any) or approaches to the problem?

/in /by

1. Movie review: There are many movies available at Hamersly Library related to the US healthcare system (“Unnatural Causes-In sickness and in wealth”, “High Price of Health”, “And the Band Played On” (HIV/AIDS), “Typhoid Mary”, “Dying to be Thin”). Also Frontline PBS has many health related titles (“Obama’s Deal”,” Facing Death”, “The Medicated Child”, Poisoned Waters”, “The New Asylums”, “Post Mortem”, “ The Meth Epidemic”, “ The real CSI”, “Dollars and Dentists”, “The Last Abortion Clinic”, “The Suicide Plan”) There are many more, you can choose, all are available to watch online. Watch any of these or one you have found and write up a review by answering the following questions: What is the health issue that is being described or addressed? What are the proposed solutions (if any) or approaches to the problem? Are differing views described in the documentary? If so, what are they? Describe how this issue is relevant to public health. (15 points) 2. Go to the Health News Review web site: http://www.healthnewsreview.org/ and see what sort of place this is. What is the purpose of this group? (Check out the site here for medical news: “News sites/blogs we like.) Assignment: Go to “story reviews”. Choose any story and write a detailed summary/review of what you find. Explain the news story and Health News Review analysis of the story. (15 points)

Determine whether GE Healthcare has any responsibility in resolving the issue of a preference for male children in cultures where its diagnostic ultrasound products are sold.

/in /by

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: Determine two (2) specific ethical issues that General Electric (GE) Healthcare faced when implementing its strategy to introduce low cost diagnostic equipment to developing countries. Recommend two (2) actions that GE can take to resolve these ethical issues. Analyze the concepts of professional and applied ethics and determine whether GE Healthcare breeched these concepts in the development of its low cost alternatives for diagnostic medical equipment. Provide one (1) specific example to support your rationale. Determine whether GE Healthcare has any responsibility in resolving the issue of a preference for male children in cultures where its diagnostic ultrasound products are sold. Recommend one (1) strategy that would enable GE Healthcare to balance its responsibility of continued growth and development with any ethical or moral concerns investors and human rights groups might have regarding the use of its equipment in controlling the birth rates of male children in some cultures. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Analyze the roles of and the relationships among organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic goals, and why they are called directional strategies. Apply analytic skills to define strategic problems, generate and evaluate strategic alternatives, and develop implementation tactics. Use technology and information resources to research issues in the strategic management of health care organizations. Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care organizations using proper writing mechanics.

Describe the sources of law in America, the relative legal procedure, and the related court system.

/in /by

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
Articulate your position as the top administrator concerned about the importance of professional conduct within the health care setting. Justify your position.
Ascertain the major ramifications of having professional staff compromise the boundaries of ethics and medical conduct.
Analyze the four (4) elements required of a plaintiff to prove medical negligence.
Discuss the overarching duties of the health care governing board in mitigating the effects of medical non-compliance, as they apply to the rules of practice set forth in the Sure Care Hospital governing board’s manifesto.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

• The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Describe the sources of law in America, the relative legal procedure, and the related court system.
• Examine the various applications of the law within the health care system.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care policy, law, and ethics.

What considerations favor retaining the client in treatment and under what conditions should treatment continue?

/in /by

A 42-year-old homeless man, Wan DeRer, with a long history of severe alcohol dependency is being treated at a drug abuse treatment program. His family history reveals that he and his siblings were severely neglected and punished physically and emotionally as children. Both parents passed away long ago. When family issues are raised during individual counseling sessions, he shrugs them off and avoids commenting on the issues raised.
At one time, the client was a highly paid welder and isvery proud of his craft. He still gets occasional jobs through his union hall because of his skills and often gets quickly promoted and given more responsibility. After a couple of months on the job, he goes off on another bender of drinking.
He has been coming to the treatment program for several months and sometimes remains sober for several weeks. Despite the program’s best efforts, he continues to relapse. It is not unusual for him to come to group under the influence. On most occasions, he simply smells of alcohol and engages in limited dialogue. At other times, he is severely drunk and comes to treatment activities tearful, repentant, and pleading for help. The clinical staff sets limits and allows him to attend group only when he is sober and able to take part in the process.
Last month, the client was twice found passed out in the alley next to the treatment center. Police and the Emergency Medical Team took him to the county hospital on these occasions. For several months, the clinical staff tried, unsuccessfully, to get the client into an inpatient residential program, or inpatient hospital detoxification program. He either refuses to go because “he has to maintain his standing at the Union hall to pay for his tools in storage” or he does not show up for the appointments made for him at the programs.
He has been a frustrating client to work with. First, he agrees to go into a detoxification, residential or hospital program and then he ducks out at the lastminute with a lame excuse for why it would not work for him.
The only positive is his connection to the program.Despite numerous, relapseshe continues to come back asking for help.

Reflections in Preparation for Case Studies
The above Case Study presents a disruptive, chronic relapsing client who challenges the compassion of program staff. Before responding to the assessment questions below, review the How to Approach a Case Study and Case Study Instructions and Templatedocuments for detailed instructions pertaining to the assignment.
Identify the following information in your review of the above case study.
• What evidence, if any, is there that the client in this case study has alcohol dependency?
• Did this client’s family and social history contribute to the development of his alcohol use disorder?
• Consider the impact that the chronic relapsing behavior is having on both staff and other clients in the program. Would there be valid cause to discharge the client from treatment?
• What considerations favor retaining the client in treatment and under what conditions should treatment continue?
• Prioritize the clinical interventions that need to occur with this client.