Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 HCA 322

HCA 322 Week 3 DQ 1 Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986

Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986. Describe the background to and the main purpose of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986. Review the case study “Failure to Meet Ethical Standards” from Chapter 7 of your course text. Respond to the two questions listed after the case study. Utilize at least two scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the past five years and are cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center to support your response. Your initial post must be a minimum of 250-300 words. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument. Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986