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Assignment:

1. Health care professionals often are in a role of educating consumers. As a patient advocate how would you utilize the information on the following link to educate patients? Compare any two hospitals of your choosing and evaluate the results. Summarize the results and indicate how consumers can utilize this information. What is your opinion of this "grading systems"? Did you find it helpful?

2. Which of the following effects would require reporting as a sentinel event to Joint Commission? Choose all that apply.

Patient who contracted a communicable disease while in the hospital

• Rape that occurred in the hospital
• Surgery occurring on the wrong body part
• surgery resulting in a post-operative infection
• Natural death of a 87 year old patient
• Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
• Unanticipated death of a full-term infant
• Blood incompatibilities reaction during a hemolytic transfusion
• patient fall with no injury
• child abduction occurring in the hospital

3. Describe the National Practitioner Data Bank and how a health care institution uses the data it contains.

4. Evaluate the following case study. Determine the appropriate steps that the risk manager should take. What ethical, legal and safety issues exist? Justify your answer.

Tim Hopkins is a 83 year old Alzheimer's patient with a history of falls. He was admitted to your hospital and the first night he was there he fell walking to the bathroom. A nurse found him on the floor. There was bruising in Mr. Hopkins' leg and he stated that it hurt. The nurse proceeded to complete the incident report and indicated she found the patient sitting in the chair. The incident report was submitted to the risk manager. The risk manager was discussing the injury with the nurse and the nurse said "when I found him on the found floor he was in pain and wanted to sit in a chair so I moved him to a chair."