IHP 420 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final case study for this course will require you to analyze a court decision in which a physician was found liable for medical malpractice. You will
focus on facts pertaining to the medical standard of care, breach of care, and causation, and you will explain how they were applied to law. You will then use the
facts of the case to identify an ethics issue and determine an ethical theory that would help provide a safe, quality healthcare experience for the patient. Next,
you will apply a clinician–patient shared decision-making model to describe how the ethics issue could be resolved. You will also include a discussion about
possible violations of the code of ethics in your given field. Lastly, you will augment or vary the facts of the case to create a hypothetical scenario that changes
the outcome so that the physician is no longer liable for medical malpractice.
For this milestone, you will start working on the case for Final Project I: Malpractice. Below is a link to the case you will investigate, as well as an additional article
about this case. These links are also provided in the Final Project I Guidelines and Rubric document.
• Surgery: Iturralde v. Hilo Medical Center USA
• Hawaiian jury finds doctor liable for inserting screwdriver in patient’s spine (Supplemental article)
Prompt: In this milestone, you will complete part of your analysis of the malpractice case. Using this analysis of the case, you will address the facts pertaining to
the medical standard of care, breach of care, and causation.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Introduction:
A. Summarize the case, including information on the stakeholders involved, the problem, and the time period the incidentoccurred.
II. Medical Malpractice Component: In this section, you will evaluate the case to address the legal components, the malpractice policies similar to this case,
and the standard of care given to the patient and how it was breached. Then, you will draw connections to how this malpractice case impacted
stakeholders and healthcare consumers outside of the case.
A. Explain the key legal components of the case, including the nature of the issue and the rules that applied.
B. Determine relevant malpractice policies in place for addressing the issues within the case.
C. Analyze the malpractice case for the standard of care provided to the victim. Be sure to apply what the law states aboutstandard of care to
support whether or not it was breached in the case.
D. Analyze how the malpractice case would impact healthcare consumers from different cultural backgrounds. For example, would this case have a
similar impact on a person from a culture different from the one in the case? How could this incident change the views of these healthcare
consumers toward the healthcare system?
E. Assess the malpractice case for accountability based on its severity. To what extent was the healthcare provider heldaccountable?
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch
margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Introduction:
Summarize
Summarize the case, including
information on the
stakeholders involved, the
problem, and the time period of
the incident that occurred
Summarizes the case, but
summary is cursory or illogical,
contains inaccuracies, or does
not include information on the
stakeholders, the problem, or
the time period of the incident
Does not summarize the case 15
Medical Malpractice
Component: Legal
Components
Explains the key legal
components of the case,
including the nature of the
issue and the rules that applied
Explains the key legal
components of the case, but
analysis is illogical, contains
inaccuracies, or does not
include the nature of the issue
or the rules that applied
Does not explain the key legal
components of the case
15
Medical Malpractice
Component:
Malpractice Policies
Determines relevant
malpractice policies in place for
addressing the issues within the
case
Determines malpractice
policies, but response lacks
detail, or the chosen policies
are irrelevant or do not address
the issues of the case
Does not determine relevant
malpractice policies in place for
addressing the issues within the
case
15
Medical Malpractice
Component:
Standard of Care
Analyzes the malpractice case
for the standard of care
provided to the victim, and
applies what the law states
about standard of care to
support whether or not it was
breached in the case
Analyzes the malpractice case
for the standard of care
provided to the victim, but does
not apply what the law states
about standard of care
Does not analyze the
malpractice case for the
standard of care provided to
the victim
15
Medical Malpractice
Component: Cultural
Backgrounds
Analyzes how the malpractice
case would impact healthcare
consumers from different
cultural backgrounds
Analyzes how the malpractice
case would impact healthcare
consumers from different
cultural backgrounds, but
analysis is cursory or contains
inaccuracies
Does not analyze how the
malpractice case would impact
healthcare consumers from
different cultural backgrounds
15
Medical Malpractice
Component:
Accountability
Assesses the malpractice case
for accountability based on its
severity and explains the level
of accountability the healthcare
provider was held to
Assesses the malpractice case
for accountability based on its
severity and explains the level
of accountability the healthcare
provider was held to, but
explanation lacks detail or is
illogical
Does not assess themalpractice
case for accountability based
on itsseverity
15
Articulation of
Response
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact
readability and articulation of
main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
10
Total 100%
