This week discusses contract law both as a general concept and also contract law a foundation for the provider-patient or facility-patient relationship.

Give an example of a contract that you or someone you know has signed. We sign these things all the time from buying a car to a washing machine to leasing an apartment to going bungee jumping, etc.

Please explain who the parties are (buyer-seller; patient-doctor; leasor-lessee).

Let us know whether you read the terms of the contract.

Tell us whether there was any consideration (payment of money or deposit of something of value).

Let us know something that could be considered a breach of the contract (hypothetically).

Discuss what you think the damages could be.

1- Describe characteristics (appearance, sensations patient may feel) of a superficial burn, partial thickness burn, and full thickness burn, Do not discus first degree, second degree, or third degree burns ( thy are not medical terms)

2- Describe 4 signs of an inhalation injury in a burn victim.

• What is an antibiogram? How is it created and used to prevent the growth of multidrug resistant organisms?

Bones, Muscles, and Joints
You are at a sports complex that has several events going on to include soccer, lacrosse, basketball and football. as you walk around and stop at the different games you spot different incidents occur that require the player t leave the field. these include a player holding there arm/shoulder, one unable to put weight on their foot/leg, one holding the area around the buttocks/upper thigh, one is holding the side of his head, and one is holding these stomach/side. knowing what you know now about the bones, muscles and joints discuss in detail, what bones muscles or joints are in these areas and what type of diagnostic technique could be used

Please explain how CAHPS improves health care?

Part 1: (paragraph form)

Identify three nursing leadership careers. Explain if any of these careers interest you, and if so, how you hope to achieve that role in the future. What is the key to career advancement?

Part 2: (paragraph form)

Identify the complexities that you have observed in nurse leaders. Give examples to support your observations.

1. Discuss diverse cultural, religious and spiritual factors underpinning the person’s choices at end-of-life using appropriate examples. How is this understanding vital in providing nursing care?
2. Discuss common non-pharmaceutical and complementary care in pain management for a patient receiving palliative care or end of life care using examples.

1. Discuss the following ethical and legal issues related to a palliative care approach:
   ▪ Decisions regarding advance care directives
   ▪ Conflicts that may occur in relation to personal values and decisions made by or for the person

▪ Organ donation
▪ Request for autopsy

How could each of these ethical and legal issues affect your nursing practice?

What tensions do you think you might experience arising from the differing worldviews of administrators, health care providers, and patients?

1. Compare and contrast Medicaid and Medicare.
2. Discuss the 4 components of Medicare.
   • Where are these 4 components applicable and why is it important to know this information?

3. Discuss the collections process.
   • Describe the statement, dunning notices, and rules regarding the collection process.

A 42 year-old male with history of insulin dependent diabetes has an appendectomy secondary to appendicitis. Upon his arrival home, he noted increasing abdominal distention, fever, heavy breathing, shortness of breath and palpitations. He presented to the emergency department with pronounced abdominal distention, hypotension and altered mental status. His labs reveal a leukocytosis, bandemia, anion gap, positive blood cultures x2, creatinine elevation and hyperglycemia.

1. What is the primary diagnosis for this patient? Support your answer using the pathophysiology of the disease.

2. What is the most likely cause for this presentation?

3. What do you anticipate his treatment plan to include?

1. Should there be a right to healthcare? If so, how much should be provided? In your answer, you must discuss the concepts of negative and positive rights and you must explain which bioethical principles you are using to justify your position.

2. It is generally accepted that autonomy should be followed when end of life care decisions are made; however, some bioethicists have challenged this, stating that there are some situations when the patient's autonomy should be overruled. Discuss these situations and argue for (or against) each situation from an ethical standpoint.