Analyze the effectiveness of the Adverse and Sentinel Events reporting program developed by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to provide a safe, effective, and efficient environment of care.
- Describe and evaluate the ethical issues involved in Medicare-funded organ transplants.
- Assess the intent and impact of publicity-oriented legal challenges to physician-assisted suicide.
- Identify the potential impact of genetic engineering on the future course of a selected chronic disease or group of diseases.
- Evaluate the changes in clinical research protocols that have been promoted by AIDS activists, and identify the potential implications of these changes.
- Develop a position paper on which to base a public policy imposing restrictive criteria upon publicly funded renal dialysis cases.
- Analyze the effectiveness of society’s delegation of ethical standards and the supervision of professional conduct to the professions of medicine and nursing.
- Assess the medical profession’s compliance in honoring patients’ living wills and durable powers of attorney.
- Evaluate the relative merits of the traditional indemnity insurance system versus the managed care system with regard to quality of care and efficiency.
- Assess the pros and cons of our acceptance of entrepreneurial and for-profit organizational structures for the provision of healthcare in the United States, with special attention to the characteristics of access and quality.
- Describe the current healthcare cost milieu and evaluate the need to ration the availability of healthcare services.
- Analyze the effectiveness of the Adverse and Sentinel Events reporting program developed by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to provide a safe, effective, and efficient environment of care.
- Analyze the recent legislation outlining minimum safe staffing standards for healthcare organizations; suggest follow-up strategies.
- Develop a position paper on the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation for the establishment of a centralized system for tracking medical errors; suggest follow-up strategies.
- Choose one particular form of complementary medicine and describe an ethical or legal issue regarding its use in treatment and what it brings to healthcare providers.
- Analyze the legal and ethical impacts that managed care practices have had on quality and access to patient care.
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