Now that you are familiar with professional responsibility, it is important to link a health care malpractice case finding with the law, regulation, and/or ethical policy that the issue violates. This helps both employees and employers understand the consequences of violating these policies.

Preparation

Research and choose 1 health care malpractice case.

Assignment Deliverable

Write a 300- to 525-word DOCUMENT executive summary in which you:

Hint use the following as topic headings:

Summarize the health care malpractice case.

Identify the law, regulation, and/or ethical policy involved.

Describe the results of the case.

Recommend actions to avoid this issue in the future.

An executive summary, would be a memo to the board for example: We had an oil spill at my hospital and in one page they wanted to know: who, what, when, where, and how. The summary is always one page with the second page listed references.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. My grading questions are did the student demonstrate 7th edition APA formatting skills? Was the assignment properly formatted (title page, font, margins, headings, etc.)? Were citations used in the body of the assignment to indicate when the student used ideas based on other authors’ ideas? Were references properly formatted according to 7th edition APA guidelines?