Ethical Self-Assessment Paper
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HCS 545
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Abstract Ethics are paramount to the healthcare management field, and the American College of Healthcare Executives has undertaken a number of initiatives to demonstrate the organization's commitment to ethics and support its members in making ethical decisions. (ACHE, 2013). This paper will examine the influence of individual ethics on decision making within the health care industry. It will discuss what the self-assessment taught me about my own ethical decision making, the effect of professional ACHE standards on my own ethical decision making, how individual ethics influence my decision making, and what strategies I can adopt to improve my ethical decision making in the future.

Self-assessment Results The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) offers a self-assessment in which you examine yourself enabling you to learn more about yourself. The self-assessment is not a scoring assessment and therefor requires each individual to recognize the areas in which they have strong ethics, and areas that may need improvement. Any questions answered with “always” identified an area of potential weakness where ethics could be compromised. The self-assessment enabled me to see my strengths and weaknesses so that I could identify the areas in need of improvement.
ACHE Standards ACHE standards have been established to help educate healthcare professionals regarding ethical decision making. Healthcare executives are often faced with difficult decision making and conflict they must address ethically. The American College of Healthcare professionals’ code of ethics includes standards of ethical behavior for healthcare executives in their professional relationships with patients, colleagues or others served; members of the healthcare executive's organization and other organizations;