Ethical Issues Healthcare professionals face the challenge of resolving ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. This paper will discuss a hypothetical ethical dilemma in a healthcare setting as if it were the author’s. Competing loyalties between the organization and patient will be indentified and an ethical response will be provided along with contrasting ethical responses. Implications to risk management will be considered and an ethical decision making model will be identified to guide future actions
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Running Head: ETHICAL HEALTHCARE Ethical Healthcare Issues Paper Wanda Douglas Health Law and Ethics/HCS 545 October 17‚ 2011 Nancy Moody Ethical Healthcare Issues Paper In today’s health care industry providing quality patient care and avoiding harm are the foundations of ethical practices. However‚ many health care professionals are not meeting the guidelines or expectations of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) or obeying the organizations code of ethics policies
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Professional Roles Running head: Professional Roles and Values 1 Professional Roles and Values Jennifer Kelso‚ RN Western Governor’s University Professional Roles 2 Professional Roles and Values The nurse supervisor has the responsibility of coaching all of her staff members in the importance of utilizing her team members to provide the most holistic care for patients. As a nurse supervisor it is important to recognize when a team member is struggling with this concept and to provide
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examine my own values and beliefs relating to the individual receiving care. I will also explore the values and beliefs that will underpin my future practice as a nurse. Values are ideals‚ attitudes and beliefs held by individuals or groups to represent what they consider to be important. They are used to guide behaviour as are morals‚ which provide standards of behaviour where a decision about right and wrong is required (Chitty 2005). It is believed that professional values learned during
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This is a very complex scenario. To prevent patient not be a victim from others‚ the healthcare organization must have some sort of policies and guidelines in place to protect the patient and privacy and confidentiality. According to Westrick (2014)‚ the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 has expanded patients’ rights to confidentiality concerning protected health information held by any healthcare organization which includes physician‚ insurance companies‚ and or
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Professional Roles and Values Functional Differences The Board of Nursing (BON)‚ is a regulatory agency that regulates nursing practices. The board essentially protects the public by ensuring that the standards of nursing practices are met and that nurses are competent in their practice (ANA‚ 2012). Each state Board of Nursing has their own state governed responsibilities. For example‚ the Texas State Board of Nursing is responsible for: issuing licenses to new nursing graduates‚ approving
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In the health care field there are many ethical issues that arise. But in healthcare‚ ethical issues are very common. Almost every decision has an ethical implication either for the primary provider‚ the patient‚ or the healthcare administrator. As stated by Larson (2013) issues such as balancing care quality and efficiency‚ improving access to care‚ building and supporting the healthcare workforce‚ addressing end of life situations‚ and dealing with limited medications and donor organs are most
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Professional Values and Ethics Learning Team A GEN200 November 15‚ 2010 Lisa Wittenhagen Ethical standards and an individual ’s personal code of moral values are extremely subjective topics often based on belief systems. Furthermore‚ upbringing commonly influences an individual ’s code of ethics thus affecting important personal and professional decisions. Renowned Brazilian professor Valdemar W. Setzer once said of moral values‚ "Ethics
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Professional Values & Ethics and Career Success Yvonne Burns Professional values can be defined as the motivating factors that appeal to a person most when it comes to career selection. There are a great deal of stirring factors that one could choose from when selecting a line of work or accepting a job invitation‚ including intellectual status‚ stability‚ and location; to name a few. (“Professional Values”‚ 2009). Relatively‚ professional ethics is a matter of morality‚ influencing
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Ethics Issues in Healthcare Technological and scientific advancement have become areas of great exponential change in the last century. The reverberations of this change is seen throughout nearly all aspects of human life from social evolution to the dynamics of education. Perhaps the most relevant alterations to humanity overall has been seen in areas concerning health‚ and our biological lives as humans in modernized cultures. The advancements in technology and science have directly translated
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