Founders’ Questionable Ethics   Instructions: First, in your own words, provide a concise but thorough description of each action or teaching listed below. Second, in your own words, evaluate each action or teaching from a moral/ethical perspective. In your moral evaluation, you may employ emotive and even disapproving language if it befits the action or […]

Chapter 1: Introduction Introduction Hemorrhage is a paramount issue that can precipitate a fatal patient outcome. Massive transfusion is a vital, high-risk treatment for extreme blood loss. The replacement of a patient’s blood volume by rapidly transfusing blood products is particularly unpredictable. There can be various precipitating events causing massive bleeding, all of which require […]

I think that most nurses do not consider the reimbursement process in relation to our patients because the reimbursement process infrequently is recognized by the nurse as impactful to them. When patients need to transfer from acute care to rehabilitation or long-term care facilities there can be delays due to obtaining authorization and placement at […]

Example: Pt and his father were seen for family therapy. Supportive psychotherapy was utilized to discuss recent life changes related to changing school. Numerous concerns identified causing conflict in the home. We developed a contract between the two that identified compromises that could help to reduce points of conflict. Patient and father were agreeable to strategies devised to reduce […]

Summary of the type of risk management plan you selected (new employee, specific audience, community‐focused, etc.) and your rationale for selecting that example. Describe the health care organization to which the plan applies and the role risk management plays in that setting. Description of the standard administrative steps and processes in a typical health care […]