HSM542 Week 7 Course Project

Course Project Overview

Research Paper and PowerPoint Presentation

Objective

This Course Project gives you the opportunity to select a
relevant healthcare topic with legal and/or ethical implications and analyze it
in greater depth in a written format. The Research Paper should critically
analyze the issues related to the topic within the context of the current
healthcare environment. The PowerPoint presentation is a visual technology tool
to support a live presentation to a specific group of stakeholders (e.g.,
leadership team, board of directors, community and public interest group,
etc.). Both web references and professional journals should be considered as
references. Don’t overlook the Keller Online Library as an important source of
information for your Research Paper.

The Course Project has two deliverables due in Week 7.

Research Paper: The length of the Research Paper should be
approximately five to seven pages, double-spaced in MS Word and include a
minimum of six references in APA or another approved format.

PowerPoint Presentation: The length of the PowerPoint
Presentation should be approximately 10–15 slides with relevant speaker’s notes
and include a minimum of three audio-visual components (e.g., audio narratives
can be embedded in images, figures, tables, audio links with/or without video,
etc.). Follow these guidelines to create your PowerPoint Presentation.

Include a cover slide with course number, course title,
title of PowerPoint Presentation, your full name, and date.

Title of Presentation: Course Project: PowerPoint
Presentation

Insert headers or titles or subtitles on each slide.

Insert page and slide number.

Keep it simple but engaging. Use appropriate images and
graphics to illustrate and complement your presentation.

Number of slides: 10–15 slides

Complete a minimum of three of the 10–15 PowerPoint slides
with an audio or visual component to present, explain, and bring to life your
presentation. Show enthusiasm and speak with proper volume and inflection to
maintain audience interest and attention.

Possible Course Project Topics

Possible Course Project Topics

Describe and evaluate the ethical issues involved in
Medicare-funded organ transplants.

Assess the intent and impact of publicity-oriented legal
challenges to physician-assisted suicide.

Identify the potential impact of genetic engineering on the
future course of a selected chronic disease or group of diseases.

Evaluate the changes in clinical research protocols that
have been promoted by AIDS activists, and identify the potential implications
of these changes.

Develop a position paper on which to base a public policy
imposing restrictive criteria upon publicly funded renal dialysis cases.

Analyze the effectiveness of society’s delegation of ethical
standards and the supervision of professional conduct to the professions of
medicine and nursing.

Assess the medical profession’s compliance in honoring
patients’ living wills and durable powers of attorney.

Evaluate the relative merits of the traditional indemnity
insurance system versus the managed care system with regard to quality of care
and efficiency.

Assess the pros and cons of our acceptance of
entrepreneurial and for-profit organizational structures for the provision of
healthcare in the United States, with special attention to the characteristics
of access and quality.

Describe the current healthcare cost milieu and evaluate the
need to ration the availability of healthcare services.

Analyze the effectiveness of the Adverse and Sentinel Events
reporting program developed by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations to provide a safe, effective, and efficient
environment of care.

Analyze the recent legislation outlining minimum safe
staffing standards for healthcare organizations; suggest follow-up strategies.

Develop a position paper on the Institute of Medicine’s
recommendation for the establishment of a centralized system for tracking
medical errors; suggest follow-up strategies.

Choose one particular form of complementary medicine and
describe an ethical or legal issue regarding its use in treatment and what it
brings to healthcare providers.

Analyze the legal and ethical impacts that managed care
practices have had on quality and access to patient care.

Note: Other topics related to course content and COs will be
considered but only as approved in advance by your instructor.