Question

1. What is the “Sunshine Law,” how does it relate to conflict of interest, and why is it important among employed physicians?

2. Define the following terms: “job burnout,” “job satisfaction,” “retention,” and “turnover.” Why are they of importance in managing health care professionals? What can health care managers do to minimize nurse and physician burnout?

3. What are the attributes of hospitals that support professional nursing practice?

Answer 1

SUNSHINE LAW

The government passed sunshine low in U.S,in september 13 , 1976. It provises ten specified exceptions,

1. It contains the complete informations related to national defence
2. It also related to internal personal rules and practices
3. To protect the matters specifically protected by the law.
4. Trade secrets or corfidential commercial informations
5. Included the matters censuring or accusing a person or crime
6. Information where disclosure would constitute a breach of privacy
7. Related to the information would harm the proceedings of the investigatory records
8. Information for the use of an agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of finantial institutions
9. Which would lead to financial speculation or endanger the stability or any financial institutions,or
10. Also related to the agencies participation in legal proceedings

Relationship of sunshine law and its impotance among employed physician

• The main aim is to focus on the issues of commercial conflicts of interest which has been source of heated debate in medical community for well over a decade
• Media coverages of commercial conflicts with in medicine focused grater public attention on the issue and raised concern about the integrity of medical information.
• In 2009 , The US institute of medicine weighed in with report that discribed medical practice and education as widespread and often hidden from public view.
• In recommended that medical education should be free of industry sponsorships and that experts on panel who establish clinical guideline practices be prohibited from having commercial COIs.
• The implementation of policies that would make finacial ties between industry and medical community more transparent to the public.
• The unconscious charactor of bias and the limits of disclosure as a standalone measure to address commercial COIs.
• Public attention become fixed on ensuring commercial COIs.
• The potential for bias to become institutionally embedded and its ability to compromise the integrity of medical data.

Define the following terms.

• Job Burnout

It is defined a special type of work relaed stress, a state of physical,emotional exhaustion that also involes a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity

• Job satisfaction

It is defined as an employ's satisfaction or worker's contenteness with their job,wheather they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs,such as nature of work or supervision

• Retension

It is defined as he ability of organization to retain the employees.

• Turn over

Turn over is an accounting concept that calculates how quickly a business conduct it's operation.

Steps to minimize the nurse and physician burnout

Ways to minimize physician bournout

1. Invest in leadership developments
2. Offer flexible work arrangements
3. Reduce the technical burden
4. Provide toolds for individual intervention
5. Reduce the burden of non-clinical activities

Ways to minimize the nurse burnout

1. Train leaders to recognize and address burnout
2. Improve the nurse to patient ratio
3. Include the nurses in policy discussions
4. Impliment support programs
5. Involve nurses in scheduling
6. Reduce non-clinical tasks.

Attributes of hospital to support the proffessional nursing practice

1. There should be a proper nurse patient value
2. Availability of al the emergency medicines
3. Availability of emergency equipments
4. Stress free environment
5. Trust spok for communication
6. Availability of the ultra modern technologies
7. Respect to the nursing profession
8. Minimize the work burden
9. Provide 100% job security
10. Flexibility