Describe the errors that resulted in the litigation

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Homework: Malpractice: Advisory Report

Competencies

By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

I. Competency I: Assess how the regulatory environment, the industry structure, and payer systems influence the delivery of health care.

1. Summarize the researched malpractice cases.

II. Competency II: Evaluate practices, policies, and systems used to guide HR in ethical, legal, and regulatory compliance.

1. Evaluate how the practices, policies, and systems contributed to the ethical, legal, or regulatory failure in the malpractice cases.

III. Competency III: Assess how health care organizations achieve health care delivery outcomes in a regulatory environment.

1. Recommend how to avoid future litigation in similar malpractice cases.

IV. Competency IV: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with expectations for human resource professional in health care.

1. Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.

Overview

This homework's HRM healthcare challenge is implementing HR best practices that avoid malpractice cases and litigation for Vila Health doctors, nurses, and other medical staff. Medical malpractice can occur when appropriate treatment is not provided and causes harm, injury, or death to a patient. This issue is ever evolving and is controversial as the number of cases are on the rise in the healthcare industry.

To prepare for writing an advisory report in this homework, conduct research on how to implement processes that avoid malpractice cases by doctors, nurses, and other medical staff in healthcare settings.

HRM Healthcare Challenge

Sylvia Reed, Director of Human Resource Management for the Western United States at Vila Health, has come to you for advice regarding current best practices of avoiding malpractice by healthcare professionals. She hopes to see a practical approach to avoiding litigation concerning this issue and asks how you would respond to a malpractice situation.

Using course resources and your own research, include the following in your advisory report:

I. Summarize the researched malpractice cases.

1. Choose cases from two different medical staff roles.

2. Describe the errors that resulted in the litigation of the malpractice cases.

II. Evaluate how the practices, policies, and systems contributed to the ethical, legal, or regulatory failure in the malpractice cases.

1. Be sure to identify the practices, policies, and systems for both cases involving different roles.

III. Recommend how to avoid future litigation in similar malpractice cases.

1. What best practices can HR institute to be preemptive in avoiding future litigation?

2. What would the benefit be to the organization and to patients?

3. Explain how your approach is primarily ethical, legal, or both.

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