Class: Regulatory and Compliance Week 8-Written Assignment: Project - Procedures for Compliance Plans For helpful background, refer to the section in Module 06 on Policies and Procedures (See attachme
Week 8- Rubric, Written Assignment, & Lesson Content
Rubric:
| Criteria | Points |
| First section presents procedures for first compliance plan based on the policies covered for the two compliance areas in Module 06. | 10 |
| Second section presents procedures for second compliance plan based the policies covered for the two compliance areas in Module 06. | 10 |
| Procedures for each compliance plan are written in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility. | 10 |
| Contains at least three research sources total cited in APA format in a References page. | 6 |
| Follows standard mechanics in writing, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. | 4 |
| TOTAL | 40 |
Week 8-Written Assignment: Project - Procedures for Compliance Plans
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| For helpful background, refer to the section in Module 06 on Policies and Procedures (See attachment named “Previous Written Assignments” for this information). |
Your assignment is to write two 1-2 page sections in a Word document describing the procedures for each compliance plan. Remember to support your procedures for each of two plans with a total of three research sources (1-2 per procedure), cited at the end in APA format. Write your procedures in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility where you are the Compliance Officer.
For your two compliance policy plans, please refer to Module 06 Course Project - Polices for Compliance Plans. Remember, you chose two compliance policy plans under the key compliance areas of Compliance Standards, High-Level Responsibility, Education, Communication, Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety), Enforcement/Discipline, and Response/Prevention. (Check them out if you forget! Remember, you may have written about different policies for the two different compliance plans.)
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| Looking ahead to Module 09, please note that you will be asked to describe monitoring tools for the same policies and procedures that you have developed for your two compliance plans. |
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document.
Lesson Content: You can read the content but it really do not go along with the written assignment for this week.
Ethics Case of the Century
One of the most controversial medical ethics cases of the 21th century is the case of the Octomom, Nadya Suleman. Ms. Suleman is a single mother with six children who is unemployed and on public assistance. Ms. Suleman tells her physician that she wants more children. The physician performs in vitro fertilization which results in the birth of octuplets (8 children). These children are all underweight at birth and required lengthy hospitalization before going home.
A number of ethical questions arise from this case:
Is this an example of science technology crossing the line?
What would happen if doctors stopped serving the wishes of a patient due to judgments they passed? (In this case, the patient already has six children, and so why does she need more? Plus, she is not married.)
If doctors are not the ones making the decision as to which procedures are ethical and which are not, then who does?
Is it fair for the government to pay for the children due to the decision of the patient/physician?
As you learn about the rules and regulations regarding medical ethics, you will have a more solid basis for evaluating such cases of bioethics.
