The waters become murky, however, when one takes into account the amount of resources allocated to providing some services or procedures to certain patients. In Plato’s argument, he asserts that essentially, healthcare should be served in a manner that reflects the interests of the greater good. At what point does the greater good become more important than an individual though? Dr. Craig Wax asserts that in Plato’s society “physicians responded to the needs of the state by devoting resources to the workers, in the process ignoring the elderly, very young, critically ill, and those who were considered genetically inferior. Such practices can lead to vile immorality and atrocities.” By all accounts, empathy is one of the most important qualities in a humane society.
Everyday health care workers around the world are faced with tough decisions. The law guides many decisions but some decisions require ethical considerations. Making good ethical decisions is not always as easy as it seems. Making ethical decisions is even harder when the primary intention is to be helpful, but it is beyond an employee’s qualifications. All healthcare professionals need to pay attention to the wishes of their patients.
People go to the hospital in order to get better from whatever ailment is troubling them. Healthcare workers should give no less than an excellent quality of care towards the patients. Being lax about cleanliness lowers this quality of care and puts everyone in danger. Unfortunately, not all hospitals adhere to strict cleanliness rules and as a result, the number of HAIs are increasing with the U.S. Department
Enhancing patient safety also contributes to the overall success of the healthcare facility (Potter & Perry, 2013, p.370). Patient safety is a sensitive topic that I feel that must be discussed and addressed very often. The purpose of this paper is providing awareness to patient safety, and how medical errors and lack of safety can compensate patient safety. Review of Literature Patient safety is a growing concern
This all means that the ethical quality of health care is profoundly influenced by the ethics of organizations and therefore we cannot have ethical health care without ethical organizations. Complexity is a common denominator among today’s health care organizations. As such, this highly competitive market driven environment has led health care organizations to be very discriminatory in the management of critical issues which have the potential to cast a negative shadow on an organization or even lead to its demise. Despite the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care’s (JCAHO) recognition that health care organizations have high potential for
However, it is because the medical professionals played such a large role in the negative social perception of marginalized groups that they have a duty to change it for the better. Other critics, such as authors John H. Knowles and Thomas Szasz, believe it should be the individual’s responsibility to take care of their personal health, not the responsibility of medical professionals. Szasz states that doctors are only tasked with the responsibility to diagnose a patient and to treat the patient, only if consent is given (Szasz 84). Knowles argues that individuals are responsible for their own healthcare and too much blame is deflected to society. However, Knowles acknowledges that medical professionals play a role with regards to helping people take responsibility for their healthcare.
Leaving a medical facility against a physician’s advice puts a patient at risk for untreated or incompletely treated medical issues, increases the need for subsequent readmission or visits to emergency departments and increases the risk of mortality. DAMA presents a dilemma not only to the attending physician but to the nursing staff caring for the patient. Ethically and legally, patients do have the right to agree to or retract consent for medical treatment; however the nursing management of DAMA is much more complicated and multi-faceted than the patient’s right to consent or dissent to treatment. Problems occur with the understanding of the different types of self-discharge from emergency departments, as well as how best to document such encounters and ultimately, how to improve upon current nursing
There are a lot of pros and cons of pay-for-performance in health care (see appendix for charts.) the chart will show what people think about pay-for-performance and the good they think it does for the health care system but it also shows the cons what people think is wrong with the pay-for-performance program. However, many are not satisfied by pay-for-performance including congress who are not on board with the Medicare reimbursement because the policy relies on the evidence-based medicine it is used to developed a “clinical practice guidelines and compensate health care providers according to their compliance with the best practices dictated by a
The Ethics of Old Times While reading the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot there were many themes and topics I came across such as those of race and discrimination. One that stood out to me the most was the controversy about ethics and making amends between the medical community and the Lacks family. Many questions arouse about the ethics used by the doctors towards Henrietta and the Family, about the family forgiving the doctors, and about the doctors taking responsibility for their lack of ethical respect towards the family. Some may say that Henrietta’s treatment in the hospital was not the best it could had been, although she got an extreme amount of attention from the doctors. Although Henrietta was a black woman, when she walked into John Hopkins she was given medical attention which was rare for hospitals in her vicinity around this time.
Solutions for Nursing Personnel Shortages Executive Summary Senior Human Resource Management should adopt some changes in order to combat the current growing nursing/healthcare personnel shortage. Employees simply want to be heard and sympathized with. Nowadays the nursing shortage has caused many problems in the healthcare industry. First and foremost, the quality of care being provided to patients is declining due to the fact that there are not as many nurses to care for the patient appropriately. As a matter of fact, the workload being dumped on the employees is steadily increasing.