For most hospitals manage, leaders, doctors, nurses are concerned about communicable diseases from patients, especially if the medical staff cannot obtain medical records. Management and leadership should take ethical issues serious, having a well written code of ethic and training the health care professionals to adopt patient welfare as his or her primary responsibility, and making ethical decisions that arise in health care (Dogra,
Week 3 DQ#1 1. As a manager what objective would you be looking for in a process improvement proposal and discuss how this process in health care differs from other business settings. As a manager finding ways to increase a healthy process that will improve the proposal should consist of ways that address mistakes, properly plan, organize, benchmark, and de-bottleneck and a host of others that provided in this week's reading materials. When working in a health care setting the best process improvement is to make certain that the patient receive the quality of care and the cost of treatment is in the means of the patients' expense to afford. Having the staff follow the rules and regulations and reduce such unwanted issues that may cause the facilities spending over his or her means of funds.
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Angel Thomas How Managers Address Change in Quality Improvement in Health Care HCA 497: Health Care Studies Capstone Instructor: Jorell Lawrence December 19, 2011 When it comes to health care, social and ethical issues is very important. This is because people in the healthcare industry deals with different situations and circumstances that has a huge impact on an individual’s life. This is why it is so important that all healthcare organizations have some kind of ethics committee or a written code of ethics. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Social and Ethical Issues of the U.S. Health Care Manager. There are ethical issues faced in health care every day.
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Ethical Health Care Issues Paper Jennifer May 05, 2014 HCS/545 Ethical Health Care Issues Paper As health care providers, we have a duty to perform our job following the rules and regulations laid out to us by the nurse practice acts provided by each state. The professional duties include the balance between competency in skills, and application of ethics that will help promote the provision of the quality of care to the public (Harris, 2008). However, as a healthcare professional, there are many ethical health care issues that are encountered with patients. A major ethical issue that often arises is the refusal of receiving blood products when deemed necessary by medical staff because of certain religious beliefs. This ethical issue often arises with patients who belong to the religious group called Jehovah’s Witnesses.
This is done when they are able to grasp the business affairs that the corporation deals with. Each organization must exercise their power of sight in ethics in many different ways. An organization may not be able to notice that by making some offerings of a few dollars in purchasing new health care equipment and a special supply of medicine that a patient needs is worth sacrificing the ethics and cuts the patient process. There are also some organizations that may find ways not to buy the equipment and supply
Although the growing importance of these social value judgments may be acknowledged, we must not neglect individual patient values (Moore 2010). However, in daily practice, it is doctors who may incorporate these factors in their clinical decisions. Doctors make therapeutic decisions based on the available information for average patients, but they are aware that, sometimes, individual patient values may modify these decisions (Moore 2010). Patients may refuse a cancer treatment that is backed by clinical trial evidence and has positive cost-effectiveness, simply because they are reluctant to suffer the side effects of the therapy, or they may prefer avoiding an inconvenient preventive intervention because they are willing to take the bigger risk of getting the disease, or suffering the complication that the intervention sought to prevent (Moore 2010). Just as the scientific value judgments of organizations should be individualized for each patient by the doctor, social value judgments should be put within the perspective of individual value judgments (Moore 2010).
It also involves ensuring that each member of the staff is aware of and follows the HIPAA and other guidelines legally mandated to health care facilities. Risk management Risk management involves minimizing the risk to the facility because of medical malpractice, employee safety, equipment safety, and the protection of profits of the facility. Employee relations Employee relations main focus is on the relationship between the employer and the employee. This includes things like open door policies and programs put in place to ensure a fair work environment. Labor