Author: chris

Sources – 3 (Text book must be one of the sources)

The course project provides you with an opportunity to choose one medical law or medical ethics issue of special interest and to study that issue at a deeper level for further understanding and application. This paper needs to be seven pages (double-spaced) paper must critically analyze the issues related to the selected topic, with the textbook, web resources, and professional journal articles (which may also be found online) being utilized to complete the project. Use at least three to four sources.

Please be sure to cite all references using APA format to avoid plagiarism. The paper must be submitted in APA format.

In your Course Project, be sure to include:

· Description of your selected issue (Patient safety in healthcare)

· Discussion of how the issue impacts healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations

Assignment 4: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property

You are a new associate at the law firm of Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. John, a former researcher at PharmaCARE, comes to your office. He has concerns about PharmaCARE’s use of AD23, one of the company’s top-selling diabetes drugs. Two (2) years ago, after PharmaCARE’s research indicated that AD23 might also slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, John and his team of pharmacists began reformulating the drug to maximize that effect. In order to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) scrutiny, PharmaCARE established a wholly-owned subsidiary, CompCARE, to operate as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new formulation to individuals on a prescription basis. CompCARE established itself in a suburban office park near its parent’s headquarters. To conserve money and time, CompCARE did a quick, low-cost renovation.

CompCARE benefited from PharmaCARE’s reputation, databases, networks, and sales and marketing expertise, and within six (6) months had the medical community buzzing about AD23. Demand soared, particularly among Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs patients. Seeing the opportunity to realize even more profit, CompCARE began advertising AD23 directly to consumers and marketing the drug directly to hospitals, clinics, and physician offices, even though compounding pharmacies are not permitted to sell drugs in bulk for general use. To circumvent this technicality, CompCARE encouraged doctors to fax lists of fictitious patient names to CompCARE. PharmaCARE sold CompCARE to WellCo, a large drugstore chain, just weeks before AD23 was publicly linked to over 200 cardiac deaths.

As CompCARE and its new parent company enjoyed record profits and PharmaCARE’s stock price approached $300 per share, reports started surfacing that people who received AD23 seemed to be suffering heart attacks at an alarming rate. The company ignored this data and continued filling large orders and paying huge bonuses to all the executives and managers, including John, whose wife recently died from a heart attack after using AD23.

In many cases, prejudice stems from the unknown. As individuals, we tend to migrate toward those who may look like us, act like us, and think like us. As a result, it may be difficult for us to open our minds and embrace those whose values, beliefs, and overall sense of self differ from our own.

For this assignment, compose a paper that is three to four pages in length. In your paper, discuss the impacts of prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination in the context of social psychology. Be sure to address the following points:

1. Define and describe the following terms: prejudice, stereotype, discrimination, and ingroup vs. outgroup. Based on your own experiences in the social world, can you relate to any of these terms? Do you identify with a particular term? Why or why not?

2. Examine the social, cognitive, and societal origins of prejudice and stereotypes. Be sure to include specific information regarding categorization, such as ingroup favoritism and the outgroup homogeneity effect, norms, competition for resources, and social inequalities. Of the categories presented, wh

Resource: Implementation, Strategic Controls, and Contingency Plans assignment with facilitator feedback

Complete a strategic plan for your organization of no more than 3,500 words.

Update your plan to incorporate facilitator feedback from the drafts you submitted in previous weeks. Include the following:

Table of contents

Executive summary, with a 2-page maximum

Company background, organizational mission, vision, and value statements

Note. For a start-up, you should focus on the backgrounds and accomplishments of key anticipated management personnel. The goal is to convince the investor that these individuals are trustworthy and successful.

Environmental scan

Review of Week 4 strategies and a recommendation for the best strategy for your organization

Review the various cases presented in Ch. 9 of the text.
What did you find particularly useful or educational? Were there ideas that surprised you? Are there additions in assessment or treatment that you would make that were not covered?

You have been hired as an executive director of a small nonprofit organization. Among your many duties are to determine an annual budget and develop a fiscal plan for the organization.

For this assignment, you must develop a 2-page spreadsheet that you will deliver to the director and staff containing an annual generic annual budget for the RTWMTC. Using an income of 800,000 per year, you must answer the following questions:

How many employees does the RTWMTC company have, and what is the breakdown of their salaries (you may choose)?
What additional costs does RTWMTC have (include utilities, lease/mortgage, phone, etc.)?
What is the surplus or deficit of the RTWMTC?

Example 1

Federal antitrust enforcers are investigating whether a multinational pharmaceutical company has attempted to minimize the impact of generic competition to one of its most profitable prescription drugs. This antidepressant drug is the company’s best seller, with sales last year of $2.11 billion, representing a 22% increase from the year before.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is conducting an investigation to determine whether the company engaged in activities to prevent generic alternatives to the prescription drug from entering the market. Specifically, the FTC is challenging a practice among brand-name and generic drug manufacturers to agree to delay the introduction of the lower priced generic drugs to the market.

Answer the following questions:

Why would the drug maker want to stymie generic competition? Explain your response.
What types of legal barriers to market entry exist?
What are the possible ethical dilemmas that are present in this example?

Read the case study, Improving Responses to Medical Errors with Organizational Behavior Management, in Chapter 4 of your course text. In a three-to five-page double-spaced paper (excluding title and reference pages) address the following:

Explain why the increase in the manager’s use of group behavior-based feedback is important.
Propose intervention strategies the group leader can use to enhance the group effectiveness. Justify your proposed strategies with scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources.
Explain the motivational theory applicable to sustain the four results listed in the case study.

The new chief executive officer (CEO) of your company is a strong believer in the four functions of management theory. In preparation for a management meeting, he has asked you to write a report that he can use to explain the theory to his management team. In the report, he would like to see some specific examples of firms that practiced these four functions. For a company with which you are familiar, use each of the four functions to do the following:

Assess how the overall management team performed in terms of the four functions of management, which are as follows:
Planning
Organizing
Leading
Controlling
Identify and explain the strong points of the managers.
Identify and explain areas in which improvement is needed.

If you do not have any firsthand experiences, ask friends or colleagues for anecdotes or search the Web for specific, real-life examples.

Specifically regarding the controlling function of management, answer the following questions:

How did most employees feel about the monitoring of activities that managers put in place to monitor employee performance and overall company performance?
How well was the need for control and monitoring explained to everyone before the controls were put in place?
Did the controls have a meaningful impact on the overall department or company performance? Cite some specific examples.

Introduction (250-300 words) You will research and find an example of a firm that is going through the transformational change of offshoring much of its production

activities. The first part of the plan will be the Introduction. Context for the introduction includes the following:

What is offshoring?

How were the stakeholders affected?

What initiated the change?

How well has it been received or accepted, and why?

What is driving the need for this transformational change? (300-500 words)