Ethical Dilemmas In Health Care

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

Ethical issues and concerns are ever-abundant in the field of helping professionals with never just one way to answer them. The most popular response is most likely, “It depends”. Some of the main issues are somewhat cut-and-dried such as confidentiality, documentation, referrals, and multiple relationships. For these, you learn the do’s and the don’ts, and when you can or you can’t. The primary obstacle I foresee for me is contending with the changing methodologies for delivering mental healthcare. The trends Cormier, Nurius, and Osborn (2009) introduce imply that “fewer and larger managed care organizations” are attempting to ‘streamline’ how human behavior and its subsequent care is supplied (p. 41).

Given that there are five professionals, eight paraprofessionals, and a host of patients that utilize the health care services, it is necessary to address this ethical problem with the utmost care. Austin, Schirick, and Jones (2013) cautions that using assistive staff in the health care setting is an area that warrants ongoing monitoring. This manner must be addressed reasons. Firstly, the other professionals in the office could be victims of this type of behavior in the future. For this reason, it is necessary to address this concern immediately. Secondly, there is the possibility that this has happened before this particular incidence. It was by chance that this incident was recognized by the nurse practitioner (ANP) as the patient brought the bottle into the office. Thirdly, Stephanie could give the other paraprofessionals the idea that this is acceptable behavior.

Healthcare professionals will be faced with ethical dilemmas throughout their career, particularly in the hospital environment. Having an education regarding professional healthcare ethics will provide some direction in how to best address these dilemmas at a time when either the patient or their family is in need of making decisions for themselves or their family member. It can be difficult for healthcare professionals to weigh professional protocol against their own personal beliefs and ethical understandings when determining critical care for their patient.

Staff starts to get really excited to have a new manager, after four months without one. The charge nurses on the unit were excited to have a new manager who will provide feedback and not afraid to discipline staff. According to the new manager’s interview, she has experience firing staff who do not follow her guidelines. The charge nurses had a meeting where the interim manager and new manager where they met up and discussed what needed revamping and what difficulties the staff had providing feedback to our colleagues. The charge nurses previously felt unsupported and didn't know how to hold their colleagues responsible for their actions. It was difficult because they would get push back from their colleagues, with no feedback from their

Ethics pertains to actions that are morally right and acceptable. In a broader sense, ethics is the foundation for legalistic matters that pertain to human rights, safety and well- being. The United States Constitution strongly endorses the rights of citizens. The aim of the Government and is to create the kind of society in which citizens are free to exercise their rights, especially with regard to matters of personal safety and health. Ethical principles govern different aspects of the society and the health sector is no exception.

When I first joined a surgical practice in the 90’s. I was brought in under a unique model. Most established practices at the time, would hire a new physician as an employee and after a set amount of time, allowed the physician to buy into the practice for a large dollar amount making them a full partner. I was hired with the guarantee that after one year I would be made a partner and receive my stock certificate to the limited liability corporation (LLC) for $1. During the first 2 years may bass salary was less than my partners to make up for the decrease productivity of a new doctor and the increased overhead associated with a practice start up. Some may consider this a buy in of some degree. Above our base compensation, each member

Growing old and losing the ability to function independently is inevitable.  Aging is a part of life.  As adults grow old, they need increased assistance with daily living skills.  The elderly may need assistance with finances, cooking, washing clothes, and cleaning.  However, many Americans are not only aging but also acquiring dementia.  In a recent study from the funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), revealed that approximately 3.8 million people in the United States have some type of dementia National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. (2001). Dementia affects the ability to cognitively function

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.

Due to the nature of this essay, it is important to consider parts from both sides of the argument, as it provokes critical thinking on the matter and demonstrates how a paper of this kind operates. The very first argument from the Point’s side of view is concentrated around liberty and freedom that is the outcome of the free market: supply and demand. In short, the writer is asking why healthcare cannot obey the same rules of supply and demand as other services and goods do. That means all people need is to prioritize what they need and make money to obtain it and those who do not want it the same way have freedom to prioritize something else. The reason why healthcare cannot obey these rules, as the writer puts it, is the fact that it is “morally special” (P.3). One of the points that the writer uses in support of her opinion is The President’s Commission’s volume, analysis of which I find incredibly interesting from both legal and ethical points of view. “In the absence of health care people may not be able to live full lives in which they can enjoy a full range of opportunities.”(P. 4) This argument states there is a significant difference between opportunities a person with good health care system to back him/her up has and a person with no access to health care. However, this situation can also be analyzed from different perspective, such as a relatively healthy person with no genetic problems, with a relatively healthy life style ( no substance abuse, no smoking, overeating, normalized fitness system ) relies on healthcare system much less compared to a person with, as

When working in the medical field you have to follow a certain medical ethic/work ethic. Which is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. To better understand this medical ethic im going to list real life cases also known ad scenarios.

I agree the importance of active relationship between patients and providers to effectively impact the health of individuals. It does makes a huge difference if you have a relationship with a provider instead of utilizing resources such as emergency room or local clinics in extreme medical emergencies. According to (Health Behavior and Health Education, 2008) ,effective care includes recognition of factors at the individual, provider, and health care system levels. Individuals may have limited knowledge, as well as beliefs and attitudes that prevent them from remaining in care ( (Health Behavior and Health Education, 2008)

The moment I walked through the automatic double doors, the smell of anesthetics hit me, I could hear the faint beeping of machines in the background. I look up at my mother and clutch her hand firmly as the nurse leads us to a room at the end of the hall. The person laying in the bed was unrecognizable: she was a mere shadow of how Maribel used to look. She was about half the size of maribel, she had a paler, ghostly appearance: her gown seemed to merge with the bed itself giving the illusion that Maribel was not fully there. Her body was beaming with wires that connected her to a monitor. Maribel rose her hand slowly to shake mine: that was the only side of her body she could move since she was paralyzed on the left side of her body. Her weak, frail voice called my mother's name and I saw my mother for the first time burst into

I personally believe that everyone deserves to be helped if they are in need. I feel that it is morally wrong to sit back and watch someone who is in need of serious health care suffer because they cannot afford to pay the costs. Health care should be available to those with serious health care needs, even if they cannot afford to pay for the costs. I know that I would want to be helped if I were in need. The definition of health care is to improve a person’s health. Why else would health care exist if it was not meant to assist those who are in need of health care? People cannot help that they get sick or injured, therefore they should not be tuned away from receiving the help they need. Even though healthcare costs the United State a lot

[1] Dilemmas happen all the time in the practice of medicine. In fact, doctors experience dilemmas of various scopes every day. Dilemmas can be as insignificant as prescribing relatively harmless drugs, or as significant as making life or death decisions. The more serious the choice, the more autonomy and trust traditionally given to the doctor. Indeed, in most cases, patients and their families do not have enough qualification in medicine to knowledgeably create or alter the course of treatment set by physicians: which results in them commonly deferring in to the expertise of the medical practitioner. This creates a complicated ethical quandary as to whether we should defer to the physician, who has medical expertise; or respect the patient’s