HS101 Medical Law and Bioethics Unit 4 Project

Your projects in this course will take you through "A Day in the Life" of a healthcare professional. You will be given the opportunity to apply the concepts that you have learned throughout the course to a variety of situations that a healthcare professional might face. This week you’ll take a look at an example of torts in healthcare. You’ll also work to apply the Patient’s Bill of Rights and demonstrate your knowledge of advanced directives as they apply to the case scenario. You will be evaluated on each project on the accuracy of your responses, the completeness of your responses, your ability to think critically about each situation and your overall writing ability.

Directions: View the case scenario. Respond to the questions that correspond to the scenario on the Unit 4 PROJECT TEMPLATE and upload to the appropriate Dropbox. Each question should be answered in complete sentences, using correct sentence structure. Responses should be free of grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors.

A Day in the Life… Unit 4 Project A patient comes in today and you know the physician is going to have to give him the bad news that he has been diagnosed with cancer. The physician has asked you to send his records to the oncologist that the patient has been referred to. When you go to give the patient the oncologist’s information to schedule his first treatment, the patient informs you that he does not believe in modern cancer treatments and will not be going to the oncologist’s office…. The patient gives you a copy of his living will stating his wishes for end of life and says “if this is it, this is the way I want it. Please put this in my file…”

HS101 Unit 4 Project: Patient’s Rights In your project this week, you will explore advanced directives, torts and your role in healthcare while respecting patient’s rights. You will be evaluated on each project on the accuracy of your responses, the completeness of your responses, your ability to think critically about each situation and your overall writing ability. Your responses to the questions below should be constructed in complete sentences using proper grammar, spelling and punctuation. Your project should be submitted to the dropbox by the end of Unit 4. Your Name: Unit 4 Project Questions 1.What is the purpose of having an advanced directive? 2.There are four types of advanced directives listed in your text. Please list three of them: 3.What is the purpose of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act? 4.Does the patient in this case have a right to an advanced directive? Why or why not?

5.Does the patient in this case have a right to refuse treatment? Why or why not? 6.What should your role as a healthcare professional be in this situation? 7.If surgery was to be performed on the patient without his consent, what type of tort would you classify this action as? (assault, battery, fraud, defamation of character, false imprisonment or invasion of privacy) Why? 8.Would you classify the action to be an intentional or unintentional tort? Why? 9.Would this be considered a matter of civil or criminal law? Why? 10.If this situation were to result in a lawsuit, what would determine how much time the patient would have to file a claim?