Paper instructions:
As the head health care administrator at USA
Community Hospital, you are required to review
compliance reports on issues relating to the ethical
conduct of the professional staff at your hospital,
patient review registries, and standard procedures
surrounding the ethical treatment of patients with HIV /
AIDS. Intermittently, complaints surface from patients
with HIV / AIDS concerned with ethical treatment and
denial of services.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary
assumptions needed for the completion of this
assignment.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1.Devise a plan to investigate the validity of patients’
claims of denial of services. This plan should include,
but not be limited to, establishing mechanisms to
address service denial claims, a human resources
component, and a review of related policies and
procedures.
2.Analyze the primary way in which different staffing
levels may play pivotal roles in upholding ethical
conduct, including treating patients with dignity. Justify
your position.
3.Formulate a plan to relate the primary legal
ramifications to the professional staff regarding ethical
treatment of the hospital’s HIV / AIDS patients.
4.Devise a community relations plan that tout’s the
hospital’s unique ways of serving persons with HIV /
AIDS, including a focus on de-stigmatizing those
afflicted.
5.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in
this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites
do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman
font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;
citations and references must follow APA or school-
specific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name,
the course title, and the date. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated
with this assignment are:
•Examine the various applications of the law within
the health care system.
•Identify the principles and legalities of ethical issues
within the health care system.
•Identify a plan that addresses legal and ethical
issues in a health care policy.
•Use technology and information resources to
research issues in health care policy, law, and ethics.
•Write clearly and concisely about health care policy,
law, and ethics using proper writing mechanics.