Healthcare professionals should warn patients of the adverse effects of surgery, the used of medical equipment, prescription drugs and other related dangers that will harm and affect the functionality of the patient. Healthcare related duty to warn can be applied to manufacturers and producers of food and medicine products and/or medical equipment, with negative effects […]
Practicing ethics in healthcare marketing means deliberately applying standards of fairness, or moral rights and wrongs, to marketing decision making, behavior, and practice in the organization. In a market economy, a business may be expected to act in what it believes to be its own best interest. Ethical theory provides a system of rules or […]
The viability of any negligence claim, including a medical negligence claim, is predicated on the defendant’s duty to exercise reasonable care. In a medical negligence claim, this duty arises out of the physician-patient relationship. Sample of problems and practices resulting in physician liability include the physician’s use of an unprecedented procedure that results in patient’s […]
Example or specimen of problems and practices resulting in nursing liability include improper and/or inappropriate administration of medications; negligent injections; failure to follow a physician’s orders; departure from acceptable practices; burns; infections; inappropriate care of the patient; inappropriate delay in treatment; failure to follow medical and clinical instructions; failure to follow vital signs and symptoms; […]
The liability of foreign objects left inside of patients during operations depends on court opinions on whether the sole responsibility of the operating instruments are for the job responsibility of either the operating room personnel or the physicians or both. The responsibility of accounting for sponges, instruments and other foreign matters may lie with both […]
When there is a disagreement with a physician’s order, a nurse should not be negligent on its medical practice. A nurse should be responsible for making complete inquiry about the accuracy and uncertainty of a physician order, in a patient’s record. For example, in the case of Louisiana of Norton vs. Argonout Insurance Co., the […]
The conditions under which healthcare providers maybe prosecuted under criminal laws are the provision of false claims; False Claims Act of 1986 prohibits knowingly presenting or causing to be presented to the government a false claim or false records or statements for payment of benefits or defrauds the government by getting a false claim allowed […]
Governing body of an organization are those members/persons, committees or departments who make up a body for the purpose of administering the health of an organization, such as overseeing and controlling the corporation’s daily activities. Responsibilities include being able to legally establish and implement policies and procedures for the management, effectiveness, and operation of an […]
Wrongful Birth claim is an action whereby parents seek damages for a child born with birth shortcomings and the claim for such damages is based on the cost to parents of raising an unexpectedly defective child. The birth claim brought by the parent of a defective child will and can be against a physician or […]
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in Health Care is a structured organizational process that involves physicians and other personnel in planning and implementing ongoing proactive improvements in processes of care to provide quality health care outcomes. Part of the study done was to evaluate the quality care and to determine what good care is; whether the […]