HLT305 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Medical errors play a big role in health care. Understanding a health care professional's role in the communication of medical errors is critical to an organization. After reading Chapter 8 in your textbook, explain in detail your role in reporting a medical error. What aspects do you need to consider? Who/what/where/when and how is this error reported?

Given the changing health care system, what is a current hot topic in the health care profession that would challenge your standards of practice? How would you overcome that challenge?

What are the limits of patient confidentiality? Are there situations in which a duty to warn or otherwise protect third parties might exist? Provide a rationale for your position.

We continue to see suicide rates rise in medical professionals. What are some ideas of different interventions, techniques, services, or opportunities we could use to positively reach them sooner and reduce stress?

Is Physician Aid-in-Dying suicide? What are the ethical issues involved? How as a medical professional would you handle this situation?

What ethical issues surround the use of kidney dialysis machines? What roles do you think social or economic factorsplay in decisions? Do the rich and poor have the same access? What criteria would you use to decide who would receivedialysis if the resource was limited?

Explain the Patients' Bill of Rights and share an example of how these apply to different situations in health care today.

Why is competence sometimes very difficult to determine? Why is the ability of the patient to make an informed refusalso impacted by competence? When are patients legally allowed to be irrational?

Kidder's ethical checkpoints is a decision-making model that is often used in health care. Provide an example of how thismodel could be used to make an ethical decision. What do you like and dislike about this model?

The textbook discusses the eight stages of health care revolution. Which of these specific events do you feel have had the most significant impact on professional value systems? Why?