Law and Health Care System Administration Table of Contents I. Physician-Patient and Hospital- Patient Position II. Contract Principle and Breach Warranty III. Four elements of negligence IV. Governing board of a health care corporation I. Physician-Patient and Hospital- Patient Position As a health care administration, the importance of the physician-patient relationship is to agree to provide treatment in return for payment. Professional liability can arise if a contract
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The Joint Commission Noelle Cunningham HCS 430 April 15, 2013 Norman Greene The Joint Commission The Joint Commission continually seeks to improve health care for the public (The Joint Commission, 2013). The Joint Commission began in 1910 as an evaluation process called “the end result system of hospital standardization” to determine successful treatments of patients. Over the next 40 years, The Joint Commission evolved into a collaboration system. In 1951, several stakeholders, such as the
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Therefore Clifton will be obliged to satisfy a higher duty of reasonable care even if the bailment is gratuitous because Clifton is a vet specialist . The obligation assigned to Clifton was to look after Rusty which he was consented to. The consent given by Clifton would have made a reasonable person like Lloyd to trust that his dog would be cared for in a professional manner. In fact Clifton had held him out as a person to be trusted to care for the dog because he has a standing as a vet specialist
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accountable for the task being completed and is also responsible for the patients in their care. (RCN, 2010) Accountability and responsibility are two essential parts of delegation. DeWits and O’Neill (2014) define delegation as "transferring the authority to perform a selected nursing task in a selected situation to a competent individual ". When delegating, the registered nurse (RN) allocates nursing tasks to health care assistants (HCAs) while still remaining accountable for the patient and the task that
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Contents Introduction 2 WHS Duties and Responsibilities 2 Officer 4 Duties of others 4 Purpose of the WHS Act for Manufacturing Organisation 5 Safety Practices 5 Consultation Methods 6 Risk assessment 6 WHS Training Requirements 7 Delivery Method 7 Reference List 8 The purpose of this report is to inform managers, office workers and workers about WHS responsibilities. This report examines 3 policies and procedures and consultation methods to provide relevant information
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Silas Marner Essay Fulfill duties or neglect them Concept of duty Statements of “duty” in Silas * Silas had a duty as a future husband to Sarah that he could not fulfill - betray * Sarah had a duty to stand by Silas however she didn’t think twice about the false information she obtained and turned her back on silas - betray * William had a duty as a best friend to fulfill however he didn’t believe Silas and even worse, he turned on him and took away the love of his life - betray
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brochure. He cannot be said to hold a duty of care to other customers as regards what was only his general opinion to the service and even if he was held to have a duty of care he cannot be said to have been in breach of a duty of care as the acts of others would be treated as a novus actus interveniens. One cause of action outside contract is under the doctrine of negligent misstatement. Liability here depends on the following factors 1 (a) a duty of care based on a special relationship; (b) Defendant's
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limited to caring for ill persons in their own homes; hospitals were seen as places to care for those who had no one else to care for them. Nursing students staffed the hospital, under the direction of the head nurse, who was usually a training school graduate. Therefore after graduation, graduates eagerly donned their white uniforms, caps, and nursing pins and joined a “registry,” allowing them to practice as private duty nurses in patients’ homes. Nurse registries, operated by hospitals, professional
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strategic and operational perspectives. 2. Duty of care: is a legal obligation which is imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. The claimant must able to show a duty of care imposed by law which the defendant has breached. In turn, breaching a duty may subject an individual to liability. Company
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Assignment 3: Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility Research Paper LEG 500 Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”, where he oversees all departments with over 5,000 employees and over 20,000 patients at the medical facility. He has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments, including business development, customer services, human resources, legal, patient advocacy, to name a few. He has managers in
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