These issues can range from facility issues to complex clinical issues, such as end of life decisions with patients. To make sure that the wide range of ethical issues are dealt with effectively, and in the best interest of the patients and the facility, management needs to set the ethical tones for the organization. Leaders and managers can start by establishing a systematic approach to ethics so that when an ethical issue does come up, the health care facility's actions will match the facility's core values. Leaders and managers need to identify and discuss ethical challenges, determine how to approach them, and provide practical insight to help maintain and enhance ethical
Spaeth career path has given him different views on issues in healthcare and therefore giving him a broad understanding of healthcare business. One of the biggest challenges today, he states is the changing structure of health care and a declining work. The declining workforce is seeing stress on the worker as the skilled and educated employee doesn’t want to work more than eight hours or on the week-ends in a 7- days- a- week, 24- hours- a- day hospital setting. Another major issue is that hospitals are becoming more specialized where top dollar reimbursement can be achieved which leaves a gap in the traditional services. Lastly, the issues of senior leaders not spend enough time mentoring younger leaders (Grazier, 2005).
Medicaid reimbursements make it challenging to properly care for patients, as well as the investment in technology. As the continuing epidemiological process in the community is changing shape of mortality and morbidity, so chronic and non- communicable diseases and injuries is accountable for the growing part of the overall circumstance of ill health. The location of the clinic places many challenges on the demographics and epidemiological data. Hiring qualified staff and providing a diverse workplace is a major key to avoiding many challenges. Opening a satellite pediatric facility in Greenwood, Austria is a huge risk, the population is 9,569 people, and the population favors the elderly.
Quality Management Assessment Summary Maria Cordero HCS/451 June 12, 2012 Lauri Rose Quality Management Within an organization quality management is a systematic and continuous process utilize to deliver products and services that can meet or exceed a customer’s expectations. However, in healthcare it has evolved over the years to address the increase demands of patient’s quality of care and services. And addressing the problems in patient outcomes. The healthcare field tends to utilize quality management to focus on the safety of patients and staff, the reduction of medical errors, and avoiding morbidity or mortality rates. To insure and improve the quality of a healthcare facility requires the entire staff to be educated on the definition
Ethical Leadership: Creating an Ethical Environment That Promotes Positive Employee Behaviors, Quality Care, Safety, and Efficiency Sheilah Montoya RN, BSN Chamberlain College of Nursing In the healthcare setting, todays leaders face many challenges. One prominent and ongoing issue is the ability of healthcare staff to provide safe, quality care to patients, and to be able to provide this care efficiently. As healthcare professionals we understand that ethical issues along with cultural issues within an organization are very common. As healthcare professionals we work to improve access to healthcare, provide quality care, promote safety, and assure care is provided within a safe environment according to cultural beliefs. Things in the healthcare field are changing constantly and this in turn affects patient care, and employee
Communication Opinion HCS/320 Communication is a very important skill for every human to have, even more important when that communication involves your health. Which is why it is so vital for a physician or any other health care employee to have good and effective communication skills. In order to fully assist a patient the communication between the physician and patient should have a shared understanding. Without this very important tool in the health care field, the industry would do horrible. So in order for personnel in the health care field to have effective communication they have to follow a few basic elements and rules.
Basic elements of effective communication construct patients and caregivers by sharing concerns and building trust. There is so much information available now that is making people build their self-confidence and part of effective communication distinguishing between helpful and harmful information. The basic rules of health care communication involve costs. Since there have been stricter review processes, referral systems, and reimbursement guidelines, many people worry about getting optimal care because they opt for managed care which saves them money (du Pre, 2005). Even Medicaid has accountability for quality.
Fortunately, this condition is treatable, and asthma can be controlled. It is important that the community physicians and teachers take charge and develop action plans and educational programs to give the parents the tools to empower their children. By empowering the children to take responsibility for their condition, they will be more successful in school and also be aware of their health needs. Disease management programs, if marketed effectively would save the communities a substantial amount of money in hospital visits every year. Most importantly, the profound effect this could have on the children who live in these communities that would have better lives because of it.
Professional ethics however does often focus primarily on the conduct of the individual members and staff that are directly attending to the individual needs of the patients. However, it is the ethical responsibility of those in charge to also hold themselves accountable for those that they are in charge of overseeing. For everything that happens there is a need for the person that has made the mistake to be held accountable, as well as, those who are over seeing them. Ethically health care workers are held to high standard of service in order to protect their patients, and this will mean that leaders and managers ethically take on the responsibility of being held accountable not only for those patients who they serve personally, but also those that they are overseeing to care for their
Virtue ethics, character traits – or virtues and vices – are the components of moral analysis and the particular forms of human excellence. Virtues are familiar traits of one’s character such as kindness, truthfulness, compassion, and loyalty; and vices such as meanness, dishonesty and cruelty. Virtue ethics would be the best theory to apply to health care reform and insuring the uninsured. Everyone wants to live the “good life”, and if a person believes that doing good will bring good, then individuals need to join together to make sure all are being taking care, for the good of the people (the insured and