WK 1 Discussions
Q.1 Select one of the intentional torts discussed in your text and provide an example of how this tort takes place in healthcare. As leader of your own healthcare facility, what steps could you take and what processes could you implement to reduce the risk of this tort occurring in your own facility?
Q.2 What do you see as the most pressing ethical issue in healthcare today? Tell us why you see this issue as particularly compelling from an ethical perspective.
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Nchols
The main difference between battery and negligent act is intent. Battery is when you want to or intend to inflict an injury, negligence within the tort laws is when someone is not paying attention enough. Applied Sciences homework help.In the health care environment, the most common negligence cases we had either seen in newspapers, tv or personally experienced are ; delaying diagnosis, miss diagnosing the patient, injury while birth, wrong prescription given to the patient, surgical malpractice and overall failure to educate the patient of potential risks, which is why when you are dealing with patients health, the risk of negligence are so much more overwhelming than intentional act of battery especially in this field of practice
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Maria
Let me first begin with the definition of Tort. Tort is when someone interferes with someone else’s personal space or personal possessions
An example of my choice is “Breach of Confidentiality”
Breach of confidentiality- means the information provided by the patient is shared with someone else without the permission of the patient.
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Wrongful death – that means the death of the patient due to medical negligence.
As the leader of the own healthcare facilities, the steps taken to reduce the risk of tort and steps against this will be:
- Not to take every case to earn money but the case should be taken according to the capacity of the physician. And once the case is taken should be taken care of seriously.
- The delay in treatment by the healthcare provider will not be appreciated.
- Providing right and all required information to the patient or their caretaker about the treatment and its side effect if any.
- To treatment should be taken place without the approval of the patient.
- Clause of confidentiality should be given special attention. Applied Sciences homework help.
Q.6 Write a reply (Kesha)
Professor and Class
Tort- False Imprisonment
False imprisonment is referred to the confinement of a person without consent of such person without legal authority. Example, a person locking another person in a room without their permission.
When it comes to healthcare false imprisonment happens when a patient is held involuntarily in a hospital, nursing home, other health facility or institution, or even in an ambulance. An element of this claim is consciousness of confinement. In other words, the person held to reasonable believe they could not leave.
As the leader of my healthcare facility the steps that I would take to implement to reduce the risk of false imprisonment is come up with some type of sign when a patient is there or being held without their consent. Another step would be to ask more questions to see exactly what is going on. Next step would be to train the employees to know and what to look for when there is a false imprisonment. With the training they will know the proper questions to ask to identify and then they will be trained to know what signs to look for so that they and the situation properly.
