ethical decisions. These frameworks are aimed to enhance collaboration between the physician and the patient to make decisions that are best for each specific circumstances. The Affordable Care Act presented a chance for developments to address ethical issues within the healthcare sector. “The U.S. Health Care System consist of four objectives: quality, freedom of choice, affordability, and cost sharing” (Sorrell,…
Environmental Assessment of Today’s Health Care Today’s health care system faces a number of challenges: from commercializing via various media, rising consumerism among patients, digitalizing medical records, and rising health care costs as well as demands. In other words, the health care system is in a constant evolution phase. As a result, there is an increasing focus on the environmental scan model, which uses the organization’s external environment factors to plan the organization’s future…
body, a person needs to receive good health care. Taking into account women, they too need good health care in order to take care of their body, and there are many factors that either hinders the development of good health care for women or improve their access to high quality health care. One factor that prevents women from getting the best possible health care are the numerous determinants of health, which have various impacts on various individuals. Health Canada recognizes several…
ethics is not limited to ethical principles and theories. When dealing with health care dilemmas, the health and work conditions of employees should be secure (Katsuhara, 2005). Ethical dilemmas are a common issue faced by health care workers daily and employees need to be educated about how they should handle these concerns. A health care dilemma that was recently mentioned in the news is whether it is ethical for a health care facility to use social media like Facebook (Loyola University…
Affordable health care is a huge problem facing the nation today. Health care should not be addressed as a privilege, but as a right. The United States Department of Health and Human Services has made it its mission to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. They provide effective health and human services while also making advancements in medicines, public health and social services. While these are great things for the organization to be doing, there should be some…
hospital management. As the population of minorities continue to increase so does the participation of minorities in the health care field. Minorities must engage in educating themselves to become aware of the need for their employment in healthcare, learn how they can be involved in healthcare, and find ways to improve the healthcare environment. When applying for positions in health care, minorities have a harder time getting the position because of competition, therefore, minorities need more…
Financial capital is extremely vital to hospitals providing and maintaining high patient quality care. Also with keeping quality, patient care the hospital needs to remain financially stable. Being a health care manager, you oversee many expenditures that go to the hospital. Whether it is directly managing the cost of supplies, equipment in the hospital and, the staff that works in the hospital, much responsibility is placed on the healthcare manager. A healthcare manager also makes sure your…
Health care privacy, thus extensive personal and sensitive digital patient data, is highly valued, and must be secured to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability. Current and accurate health data must be readily accessible for professionals to provide quality patient care (e.g., correct drug dosage), while being protected from unauthorized users. Unfortunately, data breaches are increasingly commonplace, occurring most often in the health care and business sectors (ITRC, 2016).…
Laws and policies have been created to protect patients from the abuses in the past but there are still disparities. The Health Care Reform allows minorities more access to health care, it also provides opportunity for minorities to find a provider they trust. The cases and stories presented here represent the unethical treatment and abused suffered by physicians and health care professionals in the past and in present times. It will show that there is no concern as a consequentialist in…
process of detecting and correcting error.” — (Argyris, 1977). Learning play pivotal role in health care. Learning allows people to adjust to demands and changing circumstances. Patients and families learn different methods to improve their health and ways how they can adjust to their medical conditions. Improved health status have unstable outcome due to this, Organizational learning is essential in Health care organizations to keep pace with changing ecological conditions and developing…