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HLTH 30 – Ethical and Legal Issues
Tracy Wortham
Unit 1 – IP
St. Michael’s Medical Moral & Ethical Re-Development
Scenario for this Assignment:
St. Michael's Medical Center Ethical and Legal Dilemmas
St. Michael's Medical Center (SMMC) was one of the best medical centers in the Midwestern United States. The hospital served a population of over 500,000 low-income persons and other vulnerable populations. However, in recent years, the center has faced many criticisms by the people it served and government regulators for a series of ethical violations committed. These accusations and violations have morphed into
legal battles.
Assignment Details
The Need for Moral and Ethical Development Among Healthcare Workers
Read the course scenario and consider the overall moral and ethical failures of the healthcare staff at St. Michael's Medical Center. In particular, pay close attention to the cases highlighted in the scenario. You are now hired as the new chief executive officer (CEO) with risk management background. You have decided that the best way to handle this task is to first build up the moral and ethical foundation of your employees relative to the workplace environment. You are aware that employees have different moral and ethical values, but your intention is to have them develop the proper professional ethical behavior in the workplace.
As the new CEO, let me start off by thanking the St. Michael’s Medical Center for you all being diligent in seeing so many challenging patients. Thank you for your time and dedication. I am proud to announce in the recent years that we have seen over 500,000 patients. I know that these
have been trying times and it is my goal to get the St. Michael’s Medical Center back to our once
prestigious place of being one of the best medical centers in the Midwestern United States. It was brought to my attention that we have faced criticism from the people we have served, as well
as our government regulators. It is my due diligence to ensure all staff of the medical is properly
equipped with the resources needed to dispel any accusations of ethical violations, and devalue any legal battles that may be currently pending. The next 3 days we will be doing a complete over haul on our Ethical and Legal Issues Training for all staff. We will start with Direct Patient Care and work out way through every employee of
this medical center.
Day 1
Review of Healthcare Dilemma & Basic Principles of Ethics – As written in (
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
) article, since v
alues form the basis for the principles that are included in a code of ethics. Professional values for HIM include the importance of education and technical competency, patient safety, data validity and accuracy, truthfulness, compassion, and dedication to providing quality services in professional roles.
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Be One with Self – Know how to have Autonomy o
Do Good with Beneficence
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Do No Harm – NonMalefience
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Justice for All – Just Be Fair
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Day 2
Healthcare Dilemmas and how to use the most common Principles of Ethic Reasoning can be used.
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Contemporary consequence-oriented principles – The result of the act determines if the action with right or wrong. o
Duty-oriented principles – How does it feel? Right or Wrong
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Virtue ethics reasoning - The concept of something that makes the possessor good?
Day 3
Compare the Principles of Ethics and Principles of Ethic Reasoning from Day 1 & 2 to shape the new ethical behavior in the St. Michael’s Hospital.
Upon conclusion of this training, every member of our team will be able to display, understand, and recite our new ethical principles that will ensure all of our patients that they will be treated as partner in their healthcare, and upon discharge they will feel like they are more than just a patient.
REERENCE
Opiyo, N., & English, M. (2010). In-service training for health professionals to improve care of the seriously ill newborn or child in low and middle-income countries (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd007071.pub2
(2023). Vitalsource.com. https://aiu.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9781260476736/epubcfi/6/26