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Ethical Evaluation Essay Angelita W. Hineman Colorado State University Global HCM345-1: Health Law and Ethics Dr. Shelley Safian January 29, 2023 1

2 Ethical Evaluation Essay Ethical decision-making is based on character values like trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good citizenship. These values can provide a solid foundation for good business practices (UC San Diego, 2022). In healthcare, the importance of having a good personal decision-making process can help in determining if a situation can bring harm to a patient or the healthcare system. To help us understand our ethical decision-making process, completing an online ethics test can help align ourselves with the ethical duties of our profession. After completing an online “Integrity and Work Ethics Test” on Psychology Today (2023), this paper will discuss how the decision-making process was used to formulate the responses to the test questions, as well as examine if any of the ethical principles were relied on to decide. This paper will also discuss how the results can be aligned with working in a healthcare setting. Review of Responses The online ethics test titled “Integrity and Work Ethics Test” on Psychology Today (2023) is a 30-question test that had an estimated time of completion of 20 minutes. The test asked a range of questions that measured the person’s outlook on the likelihood of theft of money or merchandise, time theft, cyberloafing, and other deceitful actions, along with gauging the level of honesty in their personal life (Psychology Today, 2023). After completing the test, the overall result was 59 out of 100, which stated an “overall tendency to behave in an honest manner” (Psychology Today, 2023). According to the description, it states “in most situations, you can be trusted, but in others, you can take the less-than-honest route or be tempted to do so” (Psychology Today, 2023). Understanding our process for ethical decision-making can help a person learn how to prioritize and choose which ethical values and principles to use. The ethical decision-making process used to formulate the responses to the questions about honesty outlook and honesty incidence revolved around real-life experiences. According to

3 Dror (2020), eight sources of bias are divided into three categories of cognitive bias, such as the Human Nature category which has the Human and Cognitive Factors, and the Human Brain source. In the Human and Cognitive Factors and the Human Brain source, Dror (2020) stated that to make sense of the world around us, the brain goes through many cognitive processes that result in biases, and these biases affect social interactions and in-group biases. Real-life experiences can lead to cognitive biases where personal integrity can be negatively affected because of the observation of seeing other people making the same decision and not having any repercussions. Another part of the test involved questions about personal integrity and the ethical decision-making process used revolved around the values learned from Navajo traditional teachings. According to Astrachan et al. (2020), spirituality and religion can be seen as major logics that provide a set of principles guiding everyday practices and relations with other members of the community and external stakeholders. In Navajo teachings, the word hόzhό is the cultural wisdom that guides the Navajo lifeway and is a day-to-day practice of having the discipline of being honest, fair, and respectful to yourself and others (Kahn-John et al., 2020). Personal integrity is about being honest to yourself and your workplace. While some responses were answered in honesty, the result did indicate that personal integrity was negatively affected in times when unsupervised and temptation took over. Ethical Principles The code of ethics is a set of values and ethical principles that help a person build character in themselves and others (UC San Diego, 2022). The four principles of ethics are beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice. According to CSU Global’s (2023) lecture notes, in the process of decision-making, there is a wide range of details that need to be

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