...Stevens, as a community hospital, has expectations of good performance and desires of continued success for the organization as a whole. Stevens takes great pride in their educational endeavors for the community and staff. Stevens Hospital currently services the majority of Lakewood and Fulton counties, as well as metro Houston. Part of the focus of Steven’s Board of Directors is to achieve national academic recognition. Stevens has several educational outreach programs set in place to further provide health care information to the community. Their mission statement helps to explain the goal and vision for the organization: “Stevens improves the health of the community by providing quality, comprehensive healthcare in a compassionate, culturally competent, ethical and fiscally responsible manner. Stevens maintains its commitment and dedication to the underserved of Lakewood and DeKalb counties, while also providing care for residents of metro Houston and Texas. Stevens leads through its clinical excellence, innovative research and progressive medical education and training.” The vision statement summarizes the goal for Stevens Hospital, “Stevens Health System will become the leading public academic healthcare system in the United States.” Stevens Hospital’s principles and values set the foundation for the possibility of reaching their future goal. Their principles and core values include excellence, customer service, ethics, teamwork, and commitment. It is...
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...Are laws and regulations the problem or the solution in addressing ethical problems? Explain. What would be an alternative? I do not think laws and regulations are the problem or necessarily always the best solution when addressing ethical problems. While they act as functional guidelines and help society maintain order, life is rarely as black and white as the laws and regulations are written to govern. I think the real issue is the way people are able to twist and bend the law into a form that is often blatantly unethical, but it proves their point of view as being just as valid as anyone else's. In general, I think everyone understands the basics of right and wrong, and the purpose of regulations and laws, but that does not mean they will always follow them. It seems to me that laws and regulations are like a double edged sword; on one hand, they should be flexible and leave room for interpretation to cover the many ethical grey areas of life, but if they are too flexible, unethical individuals are able to easily manipulate them. I cannot see a better alternative to the current system that would not infringe upon some of very ideals this country was built on. The system is a good one, but the founding fathers could not have accounted for the way people manipulate it today. I think our system needs an overhaul; by leaving fewer opportunities to be unethical, a person has little choice but develop better ethics. How might you apply ethical philosophies and principles...
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...There are various types of thinking styles that help people try to make sense of why people make the decisions that they do in based on different situations. Three examples of thinking styles are emotional thinking, logical thinking, and optimistic thinking. All three of these thinking styles have differences, similarities, and weaknesses. An emotional thinker has four types of abilities. First ability: perceiving with this ability they can detect and read emotions on faces, pictures and voices. Second ability: using emotions with this ability they can change their moods to best fit the situation. Third ability: understanding emotions with this ability they can comprehend emotional language and understand complicated situations among emotions. The final ability is managing emotions, with this ability they can regulate emotions regardless of the mood of the other person and get to the solution. A logical thinker is one that thinks coherently and logical or reasoning. Unlike the emotional thinker, the logical thinker uses their mind rather using their emotions. This is considered to be a cognitive skill and is abstract thinkers. The logical thinker always thinks things through and needs reasoning to get to the solution. They make judgments by circumstantial evidence and conclusions rather on direct observations. An optimistic thinker is one who turns negative thoughts into positive ones. They are always incorporating happiness into their lives by meditating, inspiring...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper HCS335 April 17th, 2011 Administrative Ethics Paper Organizations today are constantly under watch because of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Today an organization must take specific measures to protect an individual’s private health information. As technology advances with the coming future, protection as become increasing difficult, covering all the basis and guidelines brought forth by HIPAA laws. A major concern of the federal government is an intended or unintended breach of HIPAA regulations. Along with HIPAA, came the creation of the Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule according to Mir, (2011), “restricts the use and disclosure of health information except by the individual, persons granted access by the individual, or as authorized and required by the privacy rule” (p. 11, para. 2). In 2009, President Obama endorsed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).The ideals of HIPAA was growing Is this essay helpful? Upgrade your account to read more and access more than 470,000 just like it! get better grades quickly, the growth was complete with the aid of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which is a part within the ARRA. This growth not only covered health care providers and health care organization, but also the organization’s business associates. Everyone within an organization is responsible to protect health information, and the Office for Civil...
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...An Ethical Case Study: Jerry McCall Heather Sewell HCS335 November 4, 2013 Susan Kajfasz An Ethical Case Study: Jerry McCall The Jerry McCall case study involves a health care worker who is a medical assistant and LPN and b faces a legal and ethical decision when a patient insists on a prescription of Valium while Jerry is in the office alone. Jerry must decide how to provide the patient with what he needs while maintaining the law and his ethical values. Jerry McCall, although he received professional training as a medical assistant and an LPN, is not qualified to refill a prescription for a patient. According to New York State Law, LPNs are not allowed to work independently. The law “requires LPNs to practice under the direction of a registered professional nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, dentist, physician assistant, specialist assistant, podiatrist, or midwife” (Office of the Professions, n.d.). Jerry is aware of the rules and regulations concerning prescriptions and should not be intimidated by a pushy patient. Rules and laws are in place to protect both patients from injury and health care workers from malpractice. The law covers all medications because a patient can have an adverse reaction to even a common medication which is why all prescriptions must be ordered by licensed professionals. It does not matter whether the patient requests a daily medication such as a blood pressure medication or Valium as in Jerry’s case. The only legal way that...
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...Composite Health Care System (CHCS) SPC Snow, Victoria HCS335 19 May 2012 RENEE GORBY Composite Health Care System (CHCS) Every day that I work I use Composite Health Care System (CHCS) at the Fort Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital. CHCS also works with TRICARE. I will discuss the CHCS process for selecting and acquiring composite health care system was started with one billion dollars, and an eight year contract. The information system that I will examine is the composite health care system. I will identify the process for selecting and acquiring composite health care system. I will also explain how this organization’s goals drive the selection of the information system. I will also identify the roles each of this organizations’ stakeholders play in the selection and acquisition process. Process for selecting and acquiring CHCS was started in 1996 this was developed by using the Veteran Administration’s Decentralized Hospital Computer Programs (DHCP). Military still uses CHCS today though it has been increased by the AHLTA system. Today CHCS is still one of the major medical information systems in the world. It is the support of the medical information for the department of defense or DoD. The CHCS supports 63 military hospitals, 800 military clinics, 134,000 daily encounters, 9.4 million beneficiaries with clinical data, and 77,000 active users. (Welsh, 2009) Composite...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper HCS335 March 4, 2012 Angela Stark Administrative Ethics Paper Describe the issue and its impact on the population it affects most. What arguments or facts are used in the article to support the proposed solution? What are the ethical and legal issues reported for your administrative issue? Explain the managerial responsibilities related to administrative ethical issues. If none were stated, what should have been done? Identify any proposed solutions. When a nurse becomes overwhelmed, they may turn to narcotics like in this case. The nurse was putting the patient’s health at risk to help her get her drugs. She would chart the patient was given the drug but in turn she was giving them saline and was taking the drugs herself. It was a flexible nurse so she didn’t have certain rooms with specific patients. The pharmacist was the one who actually figured out there was an increasing amount of narcotics signed out and the signatures were questionable. Confidentiality became an issue in this situation. Since two nurses knew of the situation and confronted the nurse about getting help. But one nurse stated all the nurse had to do was complete rehabilitation during her leave. The other nurse supervisor wanted to have a meeting with other members to discuss how it needed to be handled, let the other staff members know what had gone on and see if they know anything but didn’t say anything. Also reassuring the staff that a problem had been...
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...Administrative Ethics HCS/335 Health Care Ethics and Social Responsibility June 3, 2013 Anthem Blue Cross is a major health insurance provider with approximately 800,000 customers and has more individual policyholders in California than any other insurance provider in the United States ("Anthem BlueCross BlueShield," 2012). Anthem Blue Cross has informed some of its San Francisco base policyholders that their medications will only be available through mail order. A Consumer Watchdog group is working with a patient, for privacy reasons he does not want his identity to be known, to sue Anthem Blue Cross for discrimination. I will discuss the issues and its significance on the most effected population of the policy change, the arguments or facts used to support a proposed solution with Anthem Blue Cross and the Consumer Watchdog group, and the ethical and legal issues reported for administration. I also will explain the managerial responsibilities related to administrative ethical issues, and identify any proposed solutions. Anthem Blue Cross had informed its policyholders that their medications will be only be available by mail if they want them to be paid for. That means patients cannot directly communicate with their pharmacists on a personal basis and pick up their prescriptions at their discretion. HIV/AIDS patients believe that their relationship with their pharmacist is critical to their health care, especially in San Francisco where there are some of the most...
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...Administrative Ethics HCS335 April 29, 2012 Administrative Ethics In the modern age of society, social networking has a strong influence on everyday life for many individuals. When social networking interferes with the health care industry, multiple problems may arise. Violating personal health information may occur with the slip of a key. Medical advice may be given with consequences. Social networks can be helpful, but may also be damaging. Having a policy within a facility will assist in reducing the risk of a privacy violation. A social network site is an online community for individuals to meet and share information along with discussing common interests. The issue arises from a health care professional violating patient privacy and other HIPAA laws within the social networking sites. Leaking patient information through these sites can be damaging to the patient and the physician at the same time. Social media sites tend to be relaxed and not always handled in a professional manor. This can lead to personal health information leaking through the sites. Although the leaks may not be intentional, they are still a violation of privacy laws protecting the patient. As a society, personal information that could possibly be damaging to a person is both personal and potential gossip. Not all leaks of personal health information are gossip, and damaging, but it could be for any person. The damage will reflect the person being spoken about and the medical facility...
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...Ethics & Communication Ryan Cordova 9/30/13 HCS335 University Of Phoenix When dealing with a negative affect of drug manufacturs, misleading with poor communication and low standards of ethics; these companies make a miss-communication method with either the doctor/patient. A drug manufacturing company needs to step back and look at the problems of lack of communication and fix standard ethics. This simply can be resolved with the sales rep and administrative systems. The sales rep is responsible for giving the doctor the warnings of side effects; the doctor is responsible for giving the patient the warning of side effects. The administrative staff is responsible for hiring sales representatives. Now being as the patient is a famous figure in our community, this patient has a high authority on social media, and has attention of a high volume of viewers. The Drug manufacturing company needs to address this very soon, send out statements to the media coverage, social media, and websites to keep people informed, the main goal is to keep people buying/taking the product. Being a Communications Coordinator for a company, I would first take full responsibility for the lack of communication within the internal communication of our company. I would then address my company possibly letting the Media know I am addressing my employees and how we are going to handle this. If there was a huge side effect on the drug, then the doctor did not fully let the patient know about...
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