Ethical Caring For Patients

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, the Affordable care Act from President Obama gives consumers more options and benefits when seeking coverage from insurance company. It offers lowering cost as well as gets more access to high quality of care. This law creates Patient’s Bill of Rights that is very effective to protect consumers from any abuses or fraud from insurance company. Some preventive services are available to many Americans especially Medicare recipients at no cost. Not just that, they also receive a special offer of 50 percent discount for any well-known drugs in the market place under Medicare named “donut hole.” The Affordable Care Act helps other organizations and programs to convince healthcare providers

Ethically physicians are required to provide an appropriate plan of care for all of their patients without insurance bias. The discrimination lies in the fact that most uninsured patients cannot follow the plan of care they have received. The Kaiser Family Foundation found that, “uninsured adults were three times as likely as adults with private coverage to say they postponed or did not get a needed prescription drug due to cost” (2015). This creates problems for both the patient and the hospital/place where treatment was provided. If the patient cannot afford the proper post care, the patient's condition will worsen. The patient will have to decide to either go to the ER or continue on due to the fear of a high bill. The Kaiser Family Found:

The relationship between immigrants and health care is both legal and ethical. This article explores the realities of the United States legal and moral obligations to illegal and legal immigrants in regards to healthcare access. The article examines the Canadian 2011 Federal Court of Appeal's decision in Toussaint- v. Attorney General in which Toussaint was denied medical coverage and it was determined that aliens where unable to receive health benefits. The United States does not provide medical services to illegal immigrants except in certain emergency circumstances to pregnant women and children, in which Medicaid services are provided. The author explores the idea that emergency department expenditures were more than three times as

After reading chapter 2, I learned that healthcare professionals need to be prepared and aware of the dilemmas that their career involve. One broad ethical and moral dilemma is abortion. This dilemma is very controversial because it’s discussed legally and religiously. There are pro-life supporters who claim that it is against religion to kill someone and believe that a fetus has a right to life, while pro-choice supporters claim that woman should have the legal right to make decisions regrinding her body. I think that healthcare professionals should always respect patients’ decisions and that people should also need to respect healthcare professionals’ set of values and morals. For example, some healthcare providers do not perform abortions

There are more ethical issues in health care then you could imagine, I will introduce three of such issues here in this paper. For starters “Making Basic Health Care Accessible,” today in our society there are many Americans that still lack basic health care. Most travel miles to get proper care, and pay extra out-of-pocket to receive this care. Not only basic health care but durable medical equipment (DME) and radiologic testing.

“Healthcare professional faces complex ethical dilemmas in the workplace.” (Murray, 2010). There is an expectation that a professional working in a healthcare field demonstrates the highest degree of moral character. A morally courteous person stands up for right things even if it means to do alone. The final goal of demonstrating moral character is to protect ethical value and put ethical principles into action. There are various moral characters which I would like to see in the employees. I would like to see a healthcare professional having characteristics such as professionalism, honesty, kindness and commitment (towards their patient). For a professional working in an acute care facility, demonstrating a high level of all the above four

Moral distress develops when a person identifies the ethically correct action but that action cannot be put into effect (Delgado & Epstein, 2010) Per the American Nurses Association the nurse is required to protect the patient’s right to make their own decision but in case the patient is unable to do so the provider and the nurse is responsible to look after the patient’s wellbeing especially when the patient is unable to (ANA, 2001). What happens to the patient when they are unable to make their own decisions and the family is not making medically appropriate decisions for the patient? What is the responsibility of the nurse and the health care provider? Up to 63.9% respondents reported frequently or daily encountering issues related to protecting

With long-term suffering from a chronic illness, it is natural for any patient to have strong feelings and a coping deficit regarding a chronic condition. In this case study, Ms. S’s feelings are the result of a combination of factors, including pain, discomfort, and immobility. According to Butts and Rich (2013), chronically ill patients often have feelings of depression, anger, and powerlessness.

The clinician’s behavior does not meet the aspirational goals described by the ethics code. The clinician is violating the clients privacy and breaks the APA’s ethical code of 4.04, Minimizing Intrusions on Privacy. The clinician may also be putting themselves in a position where they may start a duel relationship. It would be appropriate to report the situation if the client is under legal drinking age. A more appropriate behavior of the clinician would be to wait and see if the client approaches the clinician at the bar. If the client does not, then the clinician should wait and see if the client mentions the drinking situation during the next session with the clinician. If the client does not bring up the situation, the clinician could

The healthcare environment is a stressful one prone to conflict. Healthcare executives should be able to effectively manage and resolve conflicts amongst patients, staff, and family members. Ethical problems may arise from a conflict between the health care professional's ethical obligation to provide the utmost benefit for the patient, and the need to respect the patient's own informed choice regarding treatment. Sometimes the quality of a patient’s life is ignored due to pressure from the family to prolong their life. The codes of ethics designed by ACHE will act as guide to healthcare executives in resolving these conflicts when they arise.

Professional standards and institutional ethics involve a twofold obligation. In the first place, a commitment to keep up and enhance the nature of health care. Second, an obligation to maintain the protection of the public from unsafe and inadequate health care practices. Health care organizations have moral commitments, for example, executing a moral policy and verifying it is implemented. Health care quality is a collaboration of several expects that arrive to one contingent purpose; a preferred expected outcome. Ethical problems arise when the institution only focuses on lowering costs or maintain a sufficient amount of surplus. However the decline in the economy hinders the opportunity to provide effective and sufficient quality of care.

Medical professionals are frequently confronted to make ethical decisions about life and death matters when giving aid to individuals and families. Ethical decisions need to be considered in a wider context than personal, professional and ethical principles. When making the decision, nurses and other health care providers should try to look from the viewpoint of the patient and the patient’s family by standing in their shoes. The author describes futile treatment as when there is 10% or below success rate for survival. Michael Li believes that the crucial decision of withdrawing or withholding treatment is not only up to the doctors, but should be deliberated with the patient and the family as early as possible so that they are able to contemplate

Each of these three issues the subject matter is centered around death, pain or taking your own life. Although I'am not a parent yet but when the time comes my children will receive any and all medical care that is needed for them. I'am a Christian and believe in pray but God uses doctors and medical personnel to help us. If your an adult and make that choice for yourself then thats your business. But not for a child that can not speak up for themselves and if you love that child why would a parent refuse treatment. As for animal fighting it cruel for the animals and what makes it even worse people profit off the misery of the animals. There again the animals can not speak for themselves but if they could I would imagine what they would say.The

No matter what people say about these gross medicines, some people need it desperately. Medical professionals have been making new and extraordinarily unique medicines that perform miracles. Yes, this may sound like a Breakthrough in medical technology, but there is a little catch.

One of the key issues in modern healthcare is not only advocacy and patient care, but keeping patient's safe and free from harm. Globally, there are skyrocketing costs due to technology, wages, research and development, and an aging population. Much of the responsibility for patient safety, though, goes to the clear and direct responsibilities of the many professionals working in healthcare. Modern healthcare can be a rewarding, but challenging, career choice. Under the paradigm of quality health care, modern health professionals should interpret this as "quality patient care" which comprises three important factors sound theoretical knowledge of the latest medical procedures, information and innovations; superior communication skills that are multi-culturally based; and the ability to empathize appropriately with the patient and family to buttress the role of caregiver (Brown 2007).