Heathcare Law & Ethics
The law of civil wrongs, when a professional’s negligence injures someone.
What is Tort Law
This phrase means that without financial health, a healthcare organization cannot fulfill its purpose.
What does “no margin, no mission” mean?
Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling, and decision-making are known as these.
What are the six functions of management?
The shared values, traditions, and ways of doing things in an organization are known as this.
What is organizational culture?
Managing adaptive change in a rapidly evolving field is one of the toughest challenges in this profession.
What is healthcare management?
To prove negligence, these four legal elements must be shown: duty, breach, causation, and damages.
What are the four elements of negligence?
The four main types of financial statements used in healthcare include the balance sheet and this other “P&L”-style report.
What is the income statement?
This hierarchy of needs explains that people are motivated by basic needs first, followed by safety, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
Patients, providers, and administrators are examples of these key groups that influence healthcare quality.
Who are stakeholders?
This core belief of Pitt-Greensburg’s Healthcare Management program emphasizes honesty, compassion, and ethical leadership in all decisions.
What are trust, integrity, and ethical leadership?
This ethical theory, developed by John Stuart Mill, focuses on creating the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This accounting concept means revenues and expenses are matched to the period in which they occur, not when cash changes hands.
What is the matching principle?
This essential leadership quality involves recognizing and managing one’s own emotions and those of others.
What is emotional intelligence?
Donabedian identified structure, process, and outcome as the three main components of this concept.
What is healthcare quality?
This professor is known for teaching Healthcare Management with a mix of humor, high standards, and real-world experience.
Who is Dr. Louch?
These four ethical principles, autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice, guide healthcare decisions.
What are the principles of healthcare ethics?
This fundamental accounting equation represents the balance sheet.
What is Assets = Liabilities + Net Worth
This leadership approach is based on self-awareness, integrity, and living one’s values.
What is authentic leadership?
Using resources wisely relates to efficiency, while achieving desired results relates to this.
What is effectiveness?
These two HCM students are known for planning fun and helpful events as part of the mentor program.
Who are Abi and Jailyn?
John Rawls proposed this ethical concept that requires deciding from behind a “veil” to ensure fairness.
What is the veil of ignorance?
This financial statement converts accrual data into cash-based information through adjustments.
What is the cash flow statement?
Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model includes these four styles: telling, selling, participating, and delegating.
What are the four situational leadership styles?
This U.S. law, passed in 2010, aimed to expand healthcare coverage, improve quality, and lower costs through reforms to insurance and healthcare delivery.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This leadership value, emphasized throughout the HCM program, reminds students to stay true to their principles even under pressure.
What is integrity?