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HCS 478 Legal Considerations Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation (UOP)

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Learning Team Assignments: Legal Considerations Microsoft®
PowerPoint® presentation
Resources: University Library; Grading Criteria: Legal
Considerations Presentation
Prepare 10- 15 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with
detailed speaker notes that discusses a current legal issue from the
news media or a team member’s professional practice that affects an
individual or group of nurses or other healthcare professional such as
physicians, pharmacists, or physical therapists. For confidentiality
reasons, please use fictitious names if the scenario is based on a team
member’s professional practice experience. Some examples of legal
issues include:
Angel of Mercy” cases, such as nurses during the Hurricane Katrina
evacuation giving overdoses of morphine and other medications to
patients to end their lives
Administration of an inaccurate medication dosage, such as pediatric
patients receiving heparin overdoses as with Dennis Quaid’s twins
Disclosure to tabloids of celebrities’ personal health information, such
as the patients at Cedar Sinai.