Is the 2-week notice of termination sufficient or can she claim more?

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Anna Nicole was hired at the University Hospital (UH), as a radiology technician after the administration heard of her great work at Montreal Cardiology Hospital (MCH) for more than 20 years. At 50 years of age, Anna Nicole was reluctant to leave her job at MCH, where she had great benefits, however the UH offer to be the best paid radiology technician in Montreal and the first to operate a new, highly advanced MRI machine, was too good to refuse.
Anna Nicole began her new job March 1st 2014. Her contract states that if she is terminated for whatever reason she will not be allowed to accept employment as a radiology technician anywhere in Montreal for a period of one year.
Last month, after only one year, her supervisor terminates her employment and pays her the 2 weeks notice required under the Labour Standards Act. Her employer gives no specific reasons for her dismissal telling her that no reason is required because she has less than 2 years service.
Anna Nicole asks for your legal advice concerning her rights regarding her dismissal and her right to notice of termination, as well as the validity of her non-competition clause.
Guidelines for answering Law Development question:
For the development questions, it can help to make a quick outline of the answer you want to develop, which will help you organize your knowledge into a clear and concisely developed answer. You can use point form to answer, as long as the points clearly express the ideas necessary to answer the question.
Correction of the development questions involves a rubric (answer key) with a standard number of key elements that should be in the answer. It is also possible for you to answer something that is correct but not part of the answer key. If that is considered correct, you will receive credit for that as well.
Do not simply repeat the facts stated in the question, this is a given and will not result in any credit. There is no specific length to a correct answer, however answers should be succinct and to the point. Generally answers should not exceed 2 handwritten pages. A long drawn out answer, essentially a summary of the laws, which apply to a dismissal, will be a sign that you are just throwing stuff out there hoping some of it will be correct. Irrelevant arguments and answers will result in deductions and will also dilute any good arguments in your answer.
You should make clear and direct reference to the relevant laws discussed in the textbook and in lectures, as well as the legal principle drawn from these laws, which apply to the resolution of each issue you have identified. Similarly, if one of the required cases at the end of the chapter is relevant to the identified issue, use the reasoning from the case to support your answer.
Is the 2-week notice of termination sufficient or can she claim more? Why or why not? Can she claim re-instatement? Why or why not? Is the non-competition clause in her contract valid? Why or why not? Support your answers with specific references to the relevant laws and any cases, which are applicable to this situation.

Explain what provider-based billing is and what the patient can expect.

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This example healthcare company provides an integrated delivery system (IDS) that offers a variety of medical services to a diverse population. In your role at the hospital, you must communicate specific information to patients about their insurance coverage so that your facility will be correctly reimbursed.
The example healthcare company Web site provides different policies on all five health care insurance plans (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, worker’s compensation, and commercial insurance).
Complete the following as you would respond to patients:
Explain the billing process.
Explain what provider-based billing is and what the patient can expect.
Explain how your facility handles specific billing and insurance questions about services or procedures that do not support medical necessity (and may not be paid by a patient’s insurance).
Explain to the patient what the term, out-of-pocket means and how it could affect his or her bill.
Note: Write a paragraph for each explanation.
Reference
HealthEast Care System. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.healtheast.org/

Explain to the patient what the term, out-of-pocket means and how it could affect his or her bill

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This example healthcare company provides an integrated delivery system (IDS) that offers a variety of medical services to a diverse population. In your role at the hospital, you must communicate specific information to patients about their insurance coverage so that your facility will be correctly reimbursed.
The example healthcare company Web site provides different policies on all five health care insurance plans (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, worker’s compensation, and commercial insurance).
Complete the following as you would respond to patients:
Explain the billing process.
Explain what provider-based billing is and what the patient can expect.
Explain how your facility handles specific billing and insurance questions about services or procedures that do not support medical necessity (and may not be paid by a patient’s insurance).
Explain to the patient what the term, out-of-pocket means and how it could affect his or her bill.
Note: Write a paragraph for each explanation.
Reference
HealthEast Care System. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.healtheast.org/

What approaches do these organizations use that might be applicable within a health care organization?

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As noted in the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, “It may be part of human nature to err, but it is also part of human nature to create solutions, find better alternatives, and meet the challenges ahead” (Institute of Medicine, 1999, p. 15).
What are the most common—or most significant—risks to patient safety? How do these risks vary in different health care settings or with disparate groups of patients? What can be done to address these risks? You will explore these questions and more in this Application Assignment.
To prepare for this Application:
Begin by brainstorming types of health care organizations and groups of patients (e.g., geriatric patients requiring chronic care, pediatric patients admitted for acute care). Identify a particular type of setting and/or patient population to help you pinpoint your focus for the following step.
Review the National Patient Safety Goals, the CDC’s NHSN Web site, and the information on patient safety concerns presented in the other Learning Resources.Select a specific patient safety risk (e.g., patient falls, medication reconciliation) to focus on for this assignment.
Analyze the systems errors and/or human factors errors that should be considered with regard to this safety risk.
Reflect on related insights that could be gained from high-reliability organizations. What approaches do these organizations use that might be applicable within a health care organization?
Consider the strategies and tools (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean) that could be used to assess and reduce this particular risk.
Evaluate the potential benefits of patient and family involvement and steps that could be taken to ensure that they are included in this endeavor.
Note: To complete this Application Assignment, you will need to use the Learning Resources assigned in both Weeks 4 and 5.
The Assignment
Write a 4- to 5-page paper that addresses the following:
Briefly summarize the patient safety risk you have selected, and provide a rationale for why it deserves particular attention.
Analyze the influence of systems errors and human factors errors with regard to this risk.
Discuss related insights that could be gained from high-reliability organizations and how they might be applied within a health care organization.
Propose strategies and tools for assessing and reducing risk related to this safety issue.
Describe how patients and patients’ families can be involved in addressing this issue

Analyze each response and share what important things did you notice or discover?

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Project topic
Healthcare Waste Management in Nigeria and its Implications for Human Health Risk
PROJECT CONTENTS
Abstract:
An original, self-contained, short, and powerful statement that describes your project case and should include the following sections:
i. Purpose of the case study
ii. Background of the case study.
iii. Contents of the case study.
iv. Results or conclusion of the case study.
v. One (1) page in length.
Interview
a. Arrange to interview a person within a health organization and learn about his or her experiences as it relates to a strategic issue within their healthcare organization. Decide what questions you would like to ask your interviewee based on the strategic issue before the interview (10-12 Questions). Conduct your interview with this person, and take careful notes. This interview can be conducted in person or over the phone. Your interview section should include the following sections:
i. Summarize whom you selected to be your interviewee, by summarizing any background about this person.
ii. Explain when and where you conducted your interview with this person.
iii. Explain why you selected this person and tell what experience he or she has had with the health care organization.
iv. List the questions you asked this person and summarize their responses.
v. Analyze each response and share what important things did you notice or discover?
vi. What strategic health care issue did you identify through the interview and why do you think it is important?
Strategic Recommendation
a. Describe the intervention, program, product or service that will remedy the healthcare issue identified during the interview.

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Explain the importance of standards in public health informatics?

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The week gets off to an interesting start as patient Mark Bayne reports to the clinic. Mr. Bayne is a contact lens wearer who comes in with a red eye. His right eye had been bothering him for a week, and it was slowly getting worse. When examined, the right eye exhibited perilimbal injection of the bulbar conjunctiva and a corneal defect. The corneal defect was a dense anterior stromal corneal infiltrate with diffuse borders overlying a subtle focal area of corneal thinning 2mm eccentric to the visual axis. Using the electronic health record to lookup Mr. Bayne’s previous eye notes, you determined that his right eye was clear at his last examination two months ago. Your electronic health record’s Info button application suggested several relevant topic information links in response to the information you input into the medical encounter. Selecting the info button corresponding to fungal keratitis (one of your first rule outs), you are reminded that using a simple KOH +CFW smear preparation for the light microscope as well as culturing in Sabouraud 2% glucose-agar (without cycloheximide) would yield the best chance of detecting fungal keratitis. Armed with this information you take the correct corneal specimens before treating the patient, as medication might contaminate your results. As you write the patient’s orders in your EHR, a reminder pops up indicating that this patient is due for a periodic visual field examination in one month to monitor for glaucoma. You mention this to Mr. Bayneand before leaving he sets up that appointment hopeful that the current malady will have resolved by then. Having taken your specimen and recorded your results you send the patient off to the corneal specialist confident that your notes will be available to her. The next day Mr.Bayne is seen by the corneal specialist, and the results from the laboratory of your initial scraping indicate that with light microscopy hyphae were detected. Although the results of this testing were sent to you, they are available to the corneal specialist using a compatible medical record and the regional health information exchange (RHIO). As a result, the specialist can move forward with the most up to date information for the patient improving patient care.
Your lab order for Mr. Bayne and EHR notes are available through the RHIO to those entities with permission to view them. Governmental public health agencies monitor lab testing and other early indicators of a disease outbreak. Public health surveillance picked up on your lab order. Tuned to detect increases in particular lab tests the software noted there had been an increase in your state of the use of corneal cultures utilizing fungal specific Sabouraud’s medium this past week, (normal incidence of 3 to 4 per week up to 10 this week). This increase in the number ofthese cultures alerts public health officials to the possible increase in fungal infections of thecornea. When the state agency matches the lab orders with the patients’ address information obtained from their providers’ EHR they can feed this information into a Geographic Information System which pinpoints the location of the patients on a map such as seen in figure2. In this case, the map makes it obvious that the problem is isolated to the area surrounding Yonkers, New York. An alert is then sent out to eye doctors, primary care doctors and laboratory personnel in this area informing them of the situation and asking for them to report episodes of suspected fungal keratitis. As a result of this request, an outbreak is detected and its source is located resulting in the recall of an isolated lot number of a particular contact lens solution. Discussion question: 1- Health information exchange is necessary to allow data to flow beyond the bounds of the provider’s office; From above case select a public health problem that requires data/information to be transfer from health information systems to the public health system and describe how this can impact public health? 2- From the above case select an information system that is serving public health and describe the advantage and disadvantage of using this system in public health? 3- Explain the importance of standards in public health informatics?
USE APA STYLE REFEREES AND DON’T INCLUDE THE CASE STUDY IN THE ANSWER SHEET

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Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants

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To prepare for this assignment view the following brief video from the American Medical Association titled, “Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand.” The video can be accessed through the following link:
https://youtu.be/cGtTZ_vxjyA
Part I: Indirect Care Experience 
Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants.
Use the “Pamphlet Template” document to help you create your pamphlet. Include the following:
Select an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants.
Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. A minimum of three scholarly resources are required.
Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.
In developing your pamphlet, take into consideration the healthcare literacy level of your target audience.
Part II: Direct Care Experience
Share the pamphlet you have developed with a parent of an infant child. The parent may be a person from your neighborhood, a parent of an infant from a child-care center in your community, or a parent from another organization, such as a church group with which you have an affiliation.
Provide a written summary of the teaching / learning interaction. Include in your summary:
Demographical information of the parent and child (age, gender, ethnicity, educational level).
Description of parent response to teaching.
Assessment of parent understanding.
Your impressions of the experience; what went well, what can be improved.
Submit Part I and Part II of the Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants assignment by the end of Topic 1.
In addition to submitting this assignment in the LoudCloud dropbox, email a copy of your submission to R..e@gcu.edu.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
NRS434V.v10R.Pamphlet template_Student.docx

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Outline key information you plan to include in your Final Project policy analysis research paper.

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Select a public health issue to research in order to complete a 12- to 15-page analysis for your Final Project. This week, you provide additional detail about the issue. According to the textbook, the five essential components of a policy analysis are:
A clearly articulated problem statement
A background section that provides a factual overview of the problem being analyzed
A landscape section that provides the context of the problem in terms of key stakeholders and factors
An options section that provides three to five viable choices to resolve the problem
A well-supported recommendation section that develops one of the options identified, describes future modifications that might be necessary, and explains potential implications of social change due to your recommendation (Teitelbaum & Wilensky, 2013, pp. 253–262)
In this assignment, you submit an outline that organizes and briefly describes the content of your policy analysis. The outline must include all five essential components of a policy analysis; for more information, refer to Chapter 13 in the textbook.
The assignment (2–3 pages)
Outline key information you plan to include in your Final Project policy analysis research paper.
Organize your outline into five sections that correspond with the five essential components of a policy analysis.
Submit a page of references that includes at least five credible sources you plan to use, cited in APA style. Keep in mind that credible sources include governmental websites, policy journals, and professional health organization websites.

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Explain why you selected this person and tell what experience he or she has had with the health care organization.

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Project topic
Healthcare Waste Management in Nigeria and its Implications for Human Health Risk
PROJECT CONTENTS
Abstract:
a. An original, self-contained, short, and powerful statement that describes your project case and should include the following sections:
i. Purpose of the case study
ii. Background of the case study.
iii. Contents of the case study.
iv. Results or conclusion of the case study.
v. One (1) page in length.
3. Interview
a. Arrange to interview a person within a health organization and learn about his or her experiences as it relates to a strategic issue within their healthcare organization. Decide what questions you would like to ask your interviewee based on the strategic issue before the interview (10-12 Questions). Conduct your interview with this person, and take careful notes. This interview can be conducted in person or over the phone. Your interview section should include the following sections:
i. Summarize whom you selected to be your interviewee, by summarizing any background about this person.
ii. Explain when and where you conducted your interview with this person.
iii. Explain why you selected this person and tell what experience he or she has had with the health care organization.
iv. List the questions you asked this person and summarize their responses.
v. Analyze each response and share what important things did you notice or discover?
vi. What strategic health care issue did you identify through the interview and why do you think it is important?
4. Strategic Recommendation
a. Describe the intervention, program, product or service that will remedy the healthcare issue identified during the interview.
5. Objectives
a. Define (1) measurable short-term objectives (6-12 months)
b. Define (1) measurable long-term objectives (1-2 years)
c. For each objective, describe the tool that will be used to track whether or not you are achieving each objective.
d. You will need a separate tool for each objective.

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How could the topic of this article apply to your personal or professional life?

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The student will select an article from a peer-reviewed, scholarly article that discusses the legal aspects of the education of students in an emergency medical program. Use the databases within the CSU Online Library or another source that contains peer-reviewed, scholarly articles. The purpose of this activity is for you to practice reviewing articles that contribute to the industry. The authors of these articles are researchers and professionals that have shared or experimented with ideas that demonstrate the potential to improve the industry. As a professional in the industry, it is in your best interest to review the literature and trends within it. Doing so provides you with the opportunity to read about what has been successful and how. Plus, it allows you to analyze the ideas that were unsuccessful, how you can improve them, or at least avoid repeating the mistakes of others. Use these skills to contribute to research papers and other scholarly writing in the future. 
As you read the article, consider the following questions: How could the topic of this article apply to your personal or professional life? How could it apply to an organization you have observed? 
Use the following guidelines to select an article: 
Articles are from reliable sources/journals  They are related to the legal aspects of educating students in an emergency medical program.  They are not older than five years.  Articles should be at least ten pages. 
Use the following guidelines to prepare your article review: 
Your article review should be at least two pages.  It should identify the main topic/question.  It should identify the author’s intended audience.  It should include a one page summary of the article.  Think critically about the article, and discuss how it applies to this course for page two

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