Your scenario on which to base the current specifications is that you are now the HIM director of an HIM dept and your current system is old and outdated. It is also paper-based for its patient records and you are running out of space to physically house your records. You […]

Your state’s Northeast Health Information Management Regional meeting is scheduled for next month. A few months ago, the chair of the Northeast region sent a survey to the region’s members with questions regarding the scheduled meeting. One of the questions in the survey asked regional members to select a topic […]

Your task in this assignment is to take the body of evidence related to The connection between global warming and diseases and other public health problems, such as clean air and water in the United States. Because the emerging public health issue and generate the story that needs to be […]

You work as a behavioral technician in a group home. You and your co-workers monitor children who come from different ethnicities and cultures. You witnessed a situation where a fellow coworker spoke down to a Latino teenager and called him a racially inappropriate name. Describe the potential ethical conflict in […]

You work for a sponsor and are preparing for a FDA audit of several of your investigative sites who utilize electronic records and signatures in support of the study you are managing. What guidance will you, representing the sponsor, provide to the investigative site to help them be prepared for […]

young, first time mother calls the clinic and tells you that her four week old baby will not stop crying. The mother tells you that she has only gotten a couple hours of sleep and is exhausted and has been very emotional the past couple of weeks, herself. What actions […]

Your manager wants you to look at the decision-making process in the hospital. He is concerned that most of the decisions were not based on evidence. Furthermore, he is concerned that managers may have failed to look at or analyze data to come to a logical conclusion in making most […]

Your organization is completing a project for your healthcare organization. Describe your scenario here (fictitious). as the project manager, identify the stakeholders. 1. Using the open.edu document, create stakeholder map. Identify at least eight stakeholders… 2. Using the opentextbc.ca document, create a stakeholder analysis using Table 5.2. https://opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement/chapter/chapter-5-project-stakeholders-project-management/Links to an […]

Your patient, Ms. Karen Jones, is a healthy, nonsmoking 30-year-old. Her only medication is birth control pills of 5 years’ duration, and a daily multivitamin. She has been coming in for regular maintenance every 6 months. She brushes two times per day and flosses when she remembers, perhaps once a […]

You are the administrator in a small, privately owned hospital. You’re in the midst of the initial COVID-19 surge with many unknowns. You have two ventilators — both currently being used by COVID-19 patients (Patients A and B). A third COVID-19 patient (Patient C) will likely die without being placed […]

You are the manager of an infusion center. The center is only open from 9 am – 5 pm and cannot stay open any longer than that due to the lease that you signed. In the infusion center you have 3 infusion chairs. Only one patient can be in each […]

You are working in the HIM department of a hospital, and the department director has tasked you with creating the Release of Information form for patients to fill out when requesting documents. In an essay-style post, explain: What is contained in the designated record set? What minimum data elements (information) […]

You have a child who was born with microtia and atresia on their right ear. When discussing possible treatment options with the audiologist and ear nose and throat physician, you are given information for a possible surgical procedure to correct the disorder of the outer ear. Both healthcare professionals recommended […]

You have a client who meets his afternoon hunger and craving for sweets by getting a candy bar from the vending machine in the break room at his office. He justifies this dietary choice by adjusting his exercise sessions to “burn” the 280 kilocalories contained in the candy bar, yet […]

You have audited a vendor and have found deficiencies that need to be addressed. However, the amount of business you contribute to their operation is minimal. What challenges does this pose? How do you encourage the organization to make changes? Do you think this is a frequent challenge faced by […]

You have been hired as a Health and Safety Coordinator and is asked to ensure that the company is in compliance with WHMIS. Briefly explain what you would do to ensure compliance

You have just started working in a new office and find that the other dental hygienist in the practice, Debbie, “doesn’t believe” in using the ultrasonic equipment. Debbie states she has been practicing for 20 years, that is what she learned in school and she knows what she sees; good […]

You have likely seen her picture somewhere. In 2009 the media started to speculate on her health, particularly her weight which has changed dramatically since that time. What are the causes (Internal vs External) the media sites for her malnutrition and how does this change speculations of her form (primary/secondary) […]

You might have not heard this term in pre-coronavirus times. Now, it is doubtful anyone over the age of ten could say the same. We defined the term ‘pandemic’ in Lecture 2. Why is the world at increased risk of pandemic now? Why can we assert that living in a […]

You are assisting a health professional during an appointment with a mother and her three children. You are trying to communicate with the mother that there are health concerns for one of her children that will require attention at a follow-up appointment. The other two children are in the room […]