Assignment #3 contains 2 Parts: a Paper (12 points) and a Video Report (8 points)

Course Objectives for Assignment:

• Recommend structures and processes to manage compliance and to address ethical concerns in health care organizations.
• Promote informed decision-making by communicating emerging ethical and legal health care trends to stakeholders.

For this assignment, students are required to Write a Paper- Part 1 and Create a Video Report- Part 2 on an interview with a healthcare professional.

Select a topic from the list below [must be a different topic from the one you chose for Assignment #l] or clear a topic with the Instructor beforehand.

• Students who do not know or cannot find a healthcare professional that has responsibilities for the topic selected should use UMGC’s Career Quest to locate a healthcare professional to interview.
• Students should use the Interview Script and Interview Questions for the interview-presentation (i.e., make sure you ask the interviewee all the questions on this sheet). See attachment.

TOPICS

• Elder Abuse Mandatory Reporting
• Child Abuse Mandatory Reporting
• False credentials of health care personnel
• Medical Malpractice
• Professional Liability (Healthcare Professionals)
• Peer Review
• Physician-Hospital Contracting
• Telemedicine
• Telehealth
• Healthcare Quality Improvement
• Artificial Intelligence
• Social Media
  • communicating with patients online
  • providing medical advice to nonpatients online
  • crowdsourcing for answers to clinical questions
  • providers forming online friendships with patients

WRITE THE PAPER-Part 1.

Must use the headings from the outline below in your paper and the paper must be in a narrative form not outline or bullet format. A penalty will be deducted from the paper if underlined headings are not used in your paper.

1. Purpose of Paper, the topic chosen, applicable Federal and/or state laws

State the purpose of the paper and discuss why you chose the particular topic, and provide the official title of the applicable federal and/or state law, the statute, and section number.  Must be either a federal/state statute and you must cite both, if applicable. Thus if there is both a federal and state law that covers the subject you selected, then you must cite both the applicable federal and state law. Summarize in this paragraph the relevant language from the law that applies to your issue.  If there is a relevant health care organizational policy that you can find, then please add that also. Do not assume that there is just a federal and or state law. In most cases, there are both federal and state laws. You must use the laws cited in this section throughout the rest of the paper.

2. The specifically targeted employee group and specific health services setting

Pick a specific health care setting and specific employee (relevant to the topic) within the health care setting and then discuss, in detail, why you picked the specific employee and the specific health care setting.  Examples of health care settings are the ER, the OR, nursing facilities, etc. Specific employee groups may include doctors-managers, nurses-administrators, program administrators, etc. Please be mindful to tailor your assignment to a specific employee and specific health care setting. Do not discuss your topic in general terms.

• The information gathered from the interview with a healthcare employee should be incorporated into the written paper in a paraphrased or quoted format (no more than 25% of the text for all citations in total for this assignment only). It means that interview transcripts or recall are not the correct approaches to assignment development. Using the interviewer’s comments as experiential evidence when applicable is. Make sure to cite and refer those in your document.

3. Discussion of Three Critical Aspects of Employee’s responsibilities

You are trying to improve the quality of care in your health care organization. Thus, in this discussion area, you are using the information you gathered from interviewing a specific employee about their specific responsibilities and the specific consequences of failing in those three responsibilities. You must discuss at least three (3) specific employee critical responsibilities. You must also specifically relate the applicable federal and/or state law as to the specific consequences [you may also add relevant hospital policies as well if found] for failing in each of those responsibilities and provide citations to support the consequences. Be sure and include in the discussion the relevant law and hospital policies. Describe how each of them is relevant to the employees’ critical responsibilities. The outline below is to help you organize your thoughts but you must use a narrative format to discuss each area.  Be sure and use the headings below. (In this section the information from the interview must be presented in processed format. Do not provide transcripts or recall of the interview. Provide the analysis and assessment with the conclusions you made and supported by the quotes/paraphrased information from the interview. Make sure to cite and refer appropriately.)

a)     Discussion of Employee Specific Critical Responsibility 1

1. Discussion of specific consequence(s)  for failing in this responsibility
2. Discussion of a specific statutory requirement
3. A specific real-life legal case illustrating the consequences for violating the specific responsibility.

b)     Discussion of Employee Specific Critical Responsibility 2

1. Discussion of specific consequence(s)  for failing in this responsibility
2. Discussion of a specific statutory requirement
3. A specific real-life legal case illustrating the consequences for violating the specific responsibility.

c)     Discussion of Employee Specific Critical Responsibility 3

1. Discussion of specific consequence(s)  for failing in this responsibility
2. Discussion of a specific statutory requirement
3. A specific real-life legal case illustrating the consequences for violating the specific responsibility.

4. Conclusion – Provide a summary of employees’ critical responsibilities, consequences and the impact failing in those critical responsibilities may have on the quality of health care. Also, add a statement “For more information about this issue…” and include a reference or references for further information on the issue you discussed (2-3).

5. References