Ethical Issues Facing Healthcare Professionals

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 Dilemmas in Healthcare Healthcare Values and Ethics Western Governors University Jean Renelien 000809006 January 16, 2018 A1: Potential Ethical Dilemmas As healthcare providers, we are often faced with situations and decisions that require us to make ethical and moral decisions. As a healthcare provider, we take an oath to do no harm and put our patients first. I am a licensed registered respiratory therapist, and in my role, I have a duty to care for my patients and provide adequate treatment and respiratory support that falls within my scope of practice.

      A nurse faced with this type of situation may seek advice from the institution’s ethics committee in order to determine the appropriate course of action. An ethics committee may be composed of clinical personnel as well as non-clinical personnel. The committee most likely has and ethical consultant available as well to guide the decision making process. The role of an ethics committee in the clinical setting is to provide

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.

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

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

Ethical issues are “moral challenges” facing the health care profession (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, p. 127). Ethical issues are major concern in the healthcare field because healthcare providers observe ethical issues every day and have to make ethical decisions. A great example in the medical field is advance directives these documents are written to address individual’s medical preferences. These documents usually take effect when patients are no longer able to make informed health care decisions for them. These documents are helpful to everyone and health care providers, there are ethical considerations that can make the use of advance directives difficult (Llama, 2014). This author is a geriatric nurse that recently observed an advance directive ethical issue in the clinical setting. The purpose of this paper is to outline the steps of ethical decision-making within the seven steps for the framework. This paper will also identify the facts of the case from the perspective of each person impacted by the situation and identify which ethical principles were involved in the situation.

The right to refuse has many components to it: there are family implications, religious implications, and social implications. Every patient has the right to consent for treatment, care, or blood products. The decision to consent or not is theirs to make unless otherwise implicated. In every action in health care there are many perspectives to a topic and can bring many ethical conflicts each seen differently by another individual.

She has the burden to find a solution that both parties will agree. She used the ethical principles to guide her action. She thought about her own ethical and moral conscience in which direction to follow without bias, exercising autonomy. The family understood and gave consent for the CM to find an alternate place for him. The hospital exercised the principles of justice by providing resources to allocate care, and took into consideration not only the patient, but the family’s sake too. Veracity was being truthful to the patient’s family from the beginning about his medical condition and prognosis. Fidelity was keeping promises to the family, that the patient will receive the proper care upon

You did a great job with this week's discussion post. I agree with you that the scenario is risky and interesting and I think being in a medical field requires us to be extra careful on how to react to each and every situation. I have a similar experience when I was interning at a mental health center as a requirement for my associates degree. The place where I interned had patient who spoke my native language and they would approach me and ask me if I knew anything about their health. As it was unethical for me to disclose their personal health information, I tried explaining to them but then they would get mad at me. Even though I had empathy for them, I never did release any of their information and I tried to be away from them as much as

You are right Louise, the patient’s rights are not to be ignored or disregarded. The patient’s wish was violated, not just that but her rights and religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness was not taken seriously by the physicians and nurses. In addition, no matter what the circumstances is, the patient has the right to make decision once she is able to talk. As health care professionals, our responsibilities are to protect, promote and respect the patient’s right as we served them. The physicians were being unethical by violating the patient’s rights of refusing or accepting treatment. The worst of all was downplaying her religious belief as Jehovah’s Witness. Besides, she has the right to refuse the transfusion of

Everyday, healthcare professionals are faced with ethical dilemmas in their workplace. These ethical dilemmas need to be addressed in order to provide the best care for the patient. Healthcare professionals have to weigh their own personal beliefs, professional beliefs, ethical understandings, and several other factors to decide what the best care for their patient might be. This is illustrated in Mrs. Smith’s case. Mrs. Smith is an 85 year old who has suffered from a large stroke that extends to both of her brains hemispheres which has left her unconscious. She only has some brain stem reflexes and requires a ventilator for support. She is unable to communicate how she wishes to proceed with her healthcare. Mrs. Smith’s children, Sara and Frank have different views regarding their mother’s plan of care. The decision that needs to be made is whether to prolong Mrs. Smith’s life, as Sara would like to do, or stop all treatments and care, as Frank feels his mother would want. In the healthcare field, there are situations similar to this case that happen daily where moral and ethical judgment is necessary to guide the decision that would be best for the patient. The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss, compare and contrast the personal and professional values, ethical principles, and legal issues regarding Mrs. Smith’s quality of life and further plan of care.

[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

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