Australian legal system and health care delivery?

[blue eyes]

Can anyone tell me how to go about answering the following objective: 'Discuss the context of health care delivery in relation to the Australian legal system'.

There is nothing standing out in my lecture notes or text books. Have a description of Australian legal system in topic 1 lecture notes and only covered topics into week 3, topic 1: introduction to the law: focused mostly on duty of care/breach of and negligence, topic 2: the law of consent and topic 3: refusal of treatment.

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

I would definitely and absolutely go back to your lecturer and ask what on earth they want. This is a topic that is so large and so broad that it is almost unaswerable. Do they want to touch on the rise of litigation in the health care arena or maybe Duty of care??? Do they want to narrow it down to one state or talk of the overall influence of the federal law in relation to funding and maintenance of the health care system???

[blue eyes]

I have a full day tomorrow, lecture straight after legal issues lecture Tuesday, so will ask in my tutorial Wednesday. I can't imagine the objective would require any more than 1/4 of a page considering it was a week 1 objective

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

I have to ask - Is this lecturer new??? Often topics like this are handed out by new lecturers who have not thought through what they actually want from the students. They are often absolutely gob-smacked when everyone comes back and asks for an explaination

[blue eyes]

Don't think so as our lecturer is the unit co-ordinator. Had a 1 (or 2) year break last year from lecturing and tutoring in nur1202 unit. Since then there have been changes to some of the legal issues, either refusal of treatment and NFR orders schedules or regulation of drugs and poisons, so she has been organising papers, re-learning topics this semester. But, the lectures are very easy to follow, tutorials are conducted well - given A LOT of case studies relating to each topic for completion during the hour.

Perhaps objectives were rushed due to technical problems with WebCT - where our lecture notes, SLD activities, announcements, practice quizzes, unit timetables are posted.