...I am going to discuss ethical issues relating to research in the health and social care sectors. Ethical issues refers to moral situations that may be faced by a researcher whilst carrying out research or even whilst at work. They are normally put in a situation where they have to think about whether what they are doing is worth doing or not. There are many ethical issues that can occur whilst carrying out research. These are few of them: • If the research topic is a sensitive/controversial • Seeking Informed consent • Debriefing • Right to withdraw • Deception • Confidentiality • Protection from harm • Cultural/ language barriers • If the results cannot be generalised to the whole population or to the real world (population/ ecological validity)...
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...In South Africa the majority of burn patients are 20 years of age of younger and is the leading cause of “unnatural” for death for patients 5 years and younger according to the article Ethical decision making in severe pediatric burn victims. Medical providers are forced with the difficult decision making to weigh the cost of treatment and preservation of life. “Care of the burnt child is entirely emergency driven, labor intensive, has an appreciable mobility and mortality, and experiences the same economic pressures as the rest of health care” (Rode, Millar, Castle, & Lyle, 2011, p. 17). It is widely known and debated that the patients age is considered when deciding the patient’s healthcare plan verse cost. So in these young patients...
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...Ethics relates to a person’s or organisation’s moral principles which, along with their profession’s code of conduct and legislation, help health professionals make good judgements and decisions. Dilemmas arise when a choice must be made between two conflicting moral positions This discussion debates the ethical dilemma created by a woman who refuses to engage in the care of her gestational diabetes mellitus. The situation has been discussed with her obstetrician and midwife and the woman and her husband have been provided with full education. Every possible strategy has been implemented and clearly documented, including the use of an interpreter, and the couple are well aware of the risk to the mother and her unborn baby. Despite this, they...
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...1) Ethical and conceptual issues Current research and research results It is increasingly recognized that within many areas (e.g., disability and handicap), conceptual issues and ethical issues about proper conduct and underlying values are highly intergrated. The treatment of ethical and policy issues depends on the content of the concepts employed and, at the same time, many central concepts are informed by moral opinions and, as a result, contested on ethical grounds. Taking this intergration of conceptual and ethical issues seriously from a research point of view requires that they are very strongly interconnected, i.e. mere studies of the way in which concepts are in fact informed by moral opinions and social values is not siffucient. Outright normative analyses of underlying ethical views need to underpin suggestions with regard to the way in which central concepts should be employed in policy contexts. This has been recognised in research on the basic ethical issue of what should be seen as the basic determinant of the quality of life or well-being (Brülde 1998, 2006), as well as research on applied ethics of relevance for disability (Brülde 2003; Munthe 1996, 1999; Juth 2005; Juth & Munthe 2006), and concepts such as happiness, health, illness, and mental disorder (Brülde 2000, 2006a, 2006b). Research on several of the conceptual issues has demonstrated how they are strongly connected to ethical problems related to health care policies and public health practices...
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...Managed Care and Case Management Care Marvin Lloyd BSHS/402-Case Management 27 August 2012 Virgil Miller Managed Care are techniques employed to help reduce the cost for providing health benefits and a system for improving organizations quality of care. The United States National Library of Medicine describes managed care as, “programs that are intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases” (National Library of Medicine). Manage care has presented many issues for social service workers that include ethical responsibilities to the clients. These ethical responsibilities include self-determination, informed consent, competence, conflicts of interest, privacy and confidentiality, and the interruption and termination of services (Apgar, 2000). Manage care companies may attempt to contain cost by limiting the types and length of...
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...Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues Renae Hoag HCS/545 April 21, 2014 Victor Gibb Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues Health care fraud is a current health care issue throughout the health care industry. Health care fraud is considered abuse to the public treasury. “The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that health care fraud accounts for at least three, but as much as ten percent of total health care expenditures”(Hubbell, 2006). “Because health care fraud costs taxpayers more than $13.3 billion a year, seven federal and state agencies have made health care fraud prosecution a primary focus” (Hubbell, 2006). “The federal government concentrates on detecting and prosecuting health care fraud in its health care insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid” (Hubbell, 2006). Health care organizations that receive payment from the Social Security Act are more likely to become targets of health care fraud with Medicare and Medicaid. There are many organizations that have been accused of health care fraud with Medicare and/or Medicaid. Maxim Healthcare Services is one of the health care organizations that have been accused of health care fraud. The organizational structure and governance, culture and focus on social responsibility had an affect or influenced the situation of health care fraud and abuse. There are resources that can be allocated to prevent the situation in the future. Ethical issues were considered and...
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...Zaka Mahmood Ethical Concepts in Health Care Davenport University HLTH 230 Patricia Spiegel Abstract Primary health care as we see is an essential base of building our health system. Advanced development and new tools must consist of operational and supportive relations with the primary health care, along with recommending arrangements to ensure the population of their coverage as to their relevant needs, and be dependable with ethical guidelines linked to the public’s health and the health care. Heading The task of this presentation is to collaborate different issues. Consisting of new development in the health sector, critically providing more effective and indifferent health care along with an improving attitude towards the health population, mainly in developing countries. Primary health care as we see is an essential base of building our health system. Advanced development and new tools must consist of operational and supportive relations with the primary health care, along with recommending arrangements to ensure the population of their coverage as to their relevant needs, and be dependable with ethical guidelines linked to the public’s health and the health care. Most importantly, we would not like for the various advances health sector to utilize helplessly or isolate them self’s from one another, but take the effort to interact and advance complementary components of systems that have a global integrated nature. Now, we redirect to the three set of sources...
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...End-of-life care in social work is a continuously growing and evolving field; the social work profession has embraced the challenge that comes from interaction with the dying process across multiple systems levels. A report from The Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network stated the important role social work plays in end of life care: “Given the broad scope of practice and unique perspective, social workers bring to the field of palliative and end of life care, and to multidisciplinary teams their unique expertise in ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity; family dynamics; and social support networks. Their expertise in this field includes interventions for dealing with advanced chronic illness, trauma, grief, bereavement,...
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...The Managerial Environment of Health Care HCS/265 April 18, 2016 The University of Phoenix Send to: Oleathia King@bellsouth.net Subject: Types of Laws and Ethical Issues. Dear. Oleathia It has come to my attention that you are wanting to pursue a manager career in HealthCare. Which I have founded myself working in the healthcare industry for more than 20 years, to be an amazing career. Not only will you earn a good salary. You will enjoy job security. You will be doing the kind of work that interests you. You can live and work anywhere you want because, hospitals and other types of healthcare facilities are in almost every region of the United States. You can find a health career that fits your educational plans, you can learn hand on experience, you will have a clear path to advancement, not only do you get to work with people that are sick or dying you get to make a difference in their lives. The healthcare industry has many scholarships, financial aid programs, grants and student loans that can help you pay for going back school also. However, Otheathia, these are some of the benefit in pursuing a manager career in HealthCare. But there are other things to be knowledgeable about when pursuing a manager career in HealthCare. For example; knowing the differences between laws and ethics in health care. According to, (Week Three,...
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...Two: Application of Ethics Within Individual Organizations | | Details | Due | Points | Objectives | 1 2.1 Describe ethical principles used in health care organizations. 2.2 Explain the relationship between an organization’s culture and ethical decision-making. 2.3 Recognize the role and importance of ethical values within an organization. | | | Readings | Read Ch. 3 & 5 of Health Care Ethics. Read Ch. 8 of Medical Law and Ethics. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.Read the Week Two Read Me First. | | | Participation | Participate in class discussion. | 4 of 7 days/wk | 1 | Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. | DQ 1: Day 2 (June 6, 2012) DQ 2: Day 4 (June 8, 2012) | 1 | Learning Team Instructions | Continue working on the Code of Ethics Paper due in Week Three. Review the Week Two objectives and discuss additional insights and questions that may have arisen. | | | Individual Ethics Case Study | Resource: Ethics Case Study Grading Criteria on your student website Read the case study in Ch. 4 of Medical Law and Ethics that begins, “Jerry McCall is Dr. William’s office assistant.” Prepare a 700- to 1050-word paper in which you answer the following questions: Does Jerry’s medical training qualify him to issue this refill order? Why or why not? * Would it make a difference if the medication requested were for control of high blood pressure that the...
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...of Phoenix Health Care Ethics and Social Responsibility HCS 335 December 17, 2011 Introduction - The American Medical Association (AMA) has improved public health, invested in the doctor and patient relationship, and promoted scientific advancement for more than 160 years. The history of the AMA is an important narrative, which demonstrates the role the members and the institution have played in the United States in the development of medicine. Public health betterment and the science and art of medicine are the mission of the American Medical Association. In this paper we will describe the code of ethics, general perspective, and mission statement of the American Medical Association. Mission statement American Medical Association goal is to “To promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.”(2). They have a couple of values they promote as a company. They are Leadership, Excellence, and Integrity and Ethical Behavior. American Medical Association strives to be professional and helpful to patients on all public health issues. General perspective The AMA promotes healthy lifestyles and will continue to develop and conduct scientific research and disseminate to doctors clinical resources related to the treatment and prevention of health issues for the public, like alcohol, and other drug abuse, violence prevention, and obesity. The American Medical Association stands committed to stopping the ethnic and racial health care disparities...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper HCS 335/Ethics: Health Care and Social Responsibility June 10, 2012 Administrative Ethics Biomedical ethical issues are seen frequently in the news and are in constant scrutiny. The demand for social responsibility is high and available resources are limited. Healthcare leaders are faced with numerous administrative issues regarding patient privacy, research, confidentiality, and terminal illness. Much debate has surrounded medical spending on the terminally ill, such as the cost and allocation of resources toward end-of-life care. Choosing between prolonged life and quality of life are two seemingly difficult decisions to make. Nonetheless, it is difficult to base one’s opinion until cancer has taken over one’s life. A close look at administrative issues surrounding end-of-life care will demonstrate the impact on a population, ethical and legal implications, potential solutions to the problem, and managerial responsibilities. Impact of Ethical Issue on the Population The Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) is a part of the United States territory since its establishment of commonwealth in political union and is home to approximately 44,000 people (Central Intelligence Agency, 2012). Because of the increase in chronic diseases and lack of available resources, several residents are referred to go off the island to seek health care in Guam and Hawaii (Doty, 2012). However, the medical referral program has a crucial problem with financing...
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...of Ethics Stormont-Vail Health Care is an integrated health care organization that is comprised of multiple health care facilities and employees more than 200 physicians. Stormont-Vail’s goals, ethical principles, and ethical values all play an important role within the organization. This organization strives to maintain a positive relationship between cultural differences and ethical decision making. Stormont-Vail Health care stands by their mission to work together to help improve the health of the entire community ("Stormont-Vail Healthcare", 2014). Stormont-Vail displays social responsibility for their organization and community. This organizations main goal is to provide quality healthcare to the community. Their core values are serving others, quality health care, teamwork, respect, and viability. In a recent survey conducted by the American Hospital Association, Stormont-Vail Health Care facilities ranked very high in patient satisfaction. This organization’s mission statement is not just a marketing tool to bring in patients. It is important for Stormont- Vail employees to know and understand the mission statement as it effects the organization ethically. The main goal of Stormont-Vail Health Care is about people caring for others, improving the quality of care, utilizing the best and latest medical technology for treatment and procedures. Stormont-Vail Health Care is committed to respond and adapt to the needs of the community as health care changes. The vision for...
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...Supreme Court on the PPACA Constitutionality From the moment the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was just in its proposal stage, it proved to be the most argued upon piece of US legislation of the last decades. It stirred controversy among the general public, medical professionals, raising concerns of various nature, including public health, legal, and ethical, to the delight of hundreds of political analysts. “Chief Justice Roberts has handed a political weapon to the Republicans, who can portray the PPACA as a major tax increase. Another potentially disturbing element of Chief Justice Roberts's opinion is the limitations he places on the federal spending power… The federal government could place conditions on the new Medicaid grants, Roberts argued, but could not threaten existing Medicaid funding without being unconstitutionally coercive. This part of Roberts's opinion is unfortunate, making it more likely that a few red states will reject the Medicaid expansion for no compelling reason.” (Lemieux, 2012) From the public health perspective, the decision of the Supreme Court does not seem beneficial. It is obvious that PPACA was intended to address the social inequalities that prevent millions of low income, uninsured citizens to benefit of decent health care. The law aims to accomplish the following major tasks: to raise the quality of medical care, to offer care based on the patients freedom of choice, the affordability of such treatments, and a nation to...
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...process where members of different professions and or agencies work together to provide integrated health and or social care for the benefit of service users”. The two day IP conference (2011), was a great opportunity to meet different professionals and agencies from different areas of health and social care profession and share their views and understanding on IP working and IP learning. The Centre for Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) has defined IPE as “Interprofessional Education occurs when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care" (CAIPE, 2002). CAIPE uses the term "Interprofessional education" (IPE) to include all such learning in academic and work based settings before and after qualification, adopting an inclusive view of "professional". Based on the key themes, we discussed how Interprofessional collaboration can provide best possible care to the service users and analyse where the services are lacking. Through group discussions, key note addresses and seminars, I was able to learn about the communication issues between the health and social care professionals, contrasting professional perspectives and values, ethics within teams and stereotyping, power imbalances and team processes ( Fletcher, 2008). Improving the quality of communication is now a key priority for health and social care (DoH, 2008). Staffs at all levels are expected to work in partnership with multi-professionals...
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