from $55.6 billion annually to $200 billion annually (NCSL, 2011). Medical malpractice reform, also known as tort reform, includes strategies to limit medical malpractice costs, deter medical errors, and ensure that patients who are injured by medical negligence are fairly compensated. Tort reform has the potential to reduce health care expenditures by reducing the number of malpractice claims, the average size of malpractice awards and tort liability system administrative costs. It also may lead to
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paper will be discussing the difference between negligence, gross negligence, and malpractice. It will also cover my opinion about the situation, deciding whether it was a mishap or negligence, the importance of documentation, the ethical principles that serve as a guide in the nursing practice in this situation, and how documentation should be done to satisfy ethical and legal requirements. For negligence or malpractice to be present there is a couple of things that needs to be proven such as a duty
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May 30, 2015 HSM 320 Professor Lori Janello Application Paper Professional Liability Medical malpractice has been an issue of concern in the provision of health care for thousands of years (Young, C. C., & Williams, D. R. 2011). There may be a perception that doctors are held responsible for the majority of medical malpractice lawsuits, the reality is that nurses are often finding themselves defending the care they provide to patients. “Negligence, which is often an unintentional
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an increasing number of implications in medical malpractice cases, concerning nurses, when in the past most of these cases are, referred to physicians. Some of the causes for the nurses’ implication is because they work long hours, the stressful work environment, and the decreased staffing. With all of these added stressors related to the profession, an indicator that have been a factor and prominent problems for some of the nurses’ malpractice suits is impairment on duty. With this dilemma,
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or another. It seems whenever we turn on the news there is a new high profile case of malpractice lawsuits and individuals are being sued left and right. We live in a lawsuit happy society that only continues to intensify as the economy continues to recover and citizens continue to seek employment. Often the main bulk of the law suits that make the news and that occur in today’s society are medical malpractice suits. One can find themselves hard pressed to watch T.V. without seeing a commercial
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keep all conversations confidential. Make sure that the individual is kept up to date at Unit 304 – Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings. 1- Understand how duty of care contribute to safe practice 1.1 Having a duty of care in the care sector means that practitioners take on legal responsibilities to safeguard the welfare and wellbeing of adults in the care sector. This includes ensuring you are looking for potential hazards, paying
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Furthering Your Dental Assisting Education INTRODUCTION With today’s economy, college students need to be completely informed with the chosen career path they are heading into. Choosing a career path with little to no chance of success would be a total waste of money, effort, and time. The problem with dental assisting is there is not as many vast opportunities to succeed in this career as there are for an individual who is interested in becoming a dental hygienist. CAREER ANALYSIS OF DENTAL ASSISTANTS
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Name – Modhura Roy Roll No. – 13PGDM149 Cootle Taylor:Expanding oral care group in India Brinda Patel is the director of Cottle Taylor, an oral care firm which manufactures oral care, personal care and home care products. Michael Lang is her manager and he wants to increase the sales and market share of his company in the mid-range and high range oral care sector in emerging markets, due to declining sales revenue from US. Having had success in Thailand, Lang wants to implement similar strategies
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Fluoride Fluoride is mineral, traditionally known for its use in keeping our teeth clean, strong and preventing tooth decay. Although Fluoride helps our teeth, it does not help with the growth of our bodies, so is not practically considered a mineral essential for health and well being. It has been around for a long time and it is used in today’s society a lot. Fluoride was discovered by Henri Moissan in 1886, a French chemist that found fluoride in a hydrogen fluorine gas mix. It wasn’t discovered
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ACID -is a chemical substance whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and the ability to react with bases and certain metals (like calcium) to form salts. -Aqueous solutions of acids have a pH of less than 7. A lower pH means a higher acidity, and thus a higher concentration of hydrogen ions in the solution. Chemicals or substances having the property of an acid are said to be acidic. | Name of the Drink | pH Content | 1 | Coca-Cola
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