Human Resource Management’s Role in the Health Care Industry HCS/341 Human Resources in Health Care January 9, 2012 Diane Rodriguez Human Resource Management’s Role in the Health Care Industry Human Resource Management helps healthcare organizations maintain a great relationship between the employees and their organization. Human Resource department of an organization has multiple responsibilities and its primary purpose is to improve the productive contribution of people within an
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Responsibility The nurse has a duty to advocate for her patients. She must work to advance the patient's legal rights, privacy protections and right to choose whether or not to participate in medical research. As an advocate, the nurse must ensure that she meets all qualification and state licensure regulations prior to participating in nursing activities and must be vigilant against other colleagues with impairments. At all times, nurses have the professional duty to accept personal responsibility
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Synopsis of Tort Cases In this assignment Team B is writing a synopsis for four tort cases in which we will try to identify specific areas of the case. In each case we will identify the tort action in each case, which is the wrongdoing within the scenario. We will also identify the plaintiffs in the scenarios along with the defendants in each case. The identification of the elements within the tort claim will also be identified for each scenario. The defense that the defendants may assert will be
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(Nettina, 2013, p.16). In order to practice nursing in the State of Texas, registered nurses (RNs) “must know the scope of practice as defined by Texas law so that they may meet minimum acceptable levels of practice” (Murphy, 1995, p. 37). The nurse’s duty is to assure the safety of his/her patient. The Board of Nursing (BON) developed at six-step decision making flowchart to assist nurses to determine whither a particular action is within their scope of practice. The questions include: 1. Is the act
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A mnemonic device to remember the exceptions to the duty of confidentiality is the “Five C’s.” Which are: Consent – a clinician may release confidential information with the consent of the patient or a legally authorized surrogate decision maker, such as a parent, guardian, or other surrogate designated
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Defense c) Defense of others d) Defense of Property e) Recovery of Property f) Necessity g) Authority of Law h) Discipline i) Justification 3) NEGLIGENCE (PAGES 7 - 11) a) History b) Elements of A Cause of Action c) A negligence formula d) Standard of care i) The RPP ii) The Professional iii) Aggrivated Negligence e) Rules Of Law f) Violation of Statute (NEGLIGENCE PER SE) i) Applicability of Statute ii) Effect of Statute g) Proof of Negligence i) Court and Jury: Circumstantial Evidence ii) RES IPSA
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The defendant augured that the plaintiff’s actions of holding the BB gun, that bear a resemblance to a rifle, falls under a superseding cause. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants broke the duty of care under negligence which includes the elements of Duty, Breach, Causation, and Damaged. Then the plaintiff also claimed that under the Ninth Circuit’s provocation rule, the defendants’ actions may seem reasonable, but indeed are unreasonable since they provoked the violent
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Tort and contract law are similar in that both involve a breach of duties, and in modern law these duties have blurred and it may not be clear whether an action "sounds in tort or contract". With contract violations, the breach has to do with the duties that have been named in the contract. Tort violations however also involve some sort of breach of duty which can be viewed as the causes of action which are not defined in other areas such as contract or fiduciary law,as in the case of “Donoghue v
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is a description of health scenario of Gwen an LPN whose health is at peril. According to Westrick and Jacob (2016), this is a description of health care advice of patient non-compliant behavior. Gwen is an LPN who indeed understand her health conditions, however, fails to comply with the appropriate medical process, problem conforming to treatment care modality thus Gwen fails to accede to what is properly related to negligence. The Legal Implication and Key Component of Malpractice Policy in this
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Discrimination can be put into two categories; direct and indirect. 1.2 Explain how rights are promoted in health and social care service? Human rights are “basic rights and freedoms that protect us all. They are based on dignity, fairness, equality and respect” (Equality and Human Rights Commission). Human rights are promoted in health and social care service by first of all, the care worker knowing the human rights applicable to individuals and working hard to safeguard those rights. These can be achieved
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