Business Ethics in a Hospital Setting Darlene V Nickerson Columbia Southern University Abstract Business ethics in a hospital setting includes a review of many areas. Ethical considerations include the areas of patient care, nursing ethics, physician ethics, patient privacy, and medical billing practices. This paper will touch on ethical concerns for each of these topics. Keywords: hospitals, ethics, patient care, nursing, physicians Business Ethics in a Hospital Setting When beginning
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Workplace Ethical Dilemma Elizabeth Tirado BSHS/332 February 4, 2013 Kathleen Roberts Workplace Ethical Dilemma I have often thought of myself as a good person. My parents raised me to respect my elders, be kind to animals and children, and to say always please. These are good qualities for a person to have, but it is important to know why people have these qualities. Showing common courtesy to someone may make an impact in that person’s day, but in the workplace common courtesy, especially
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There are advantages and disadvantages to all forms of healthcare communication, which must be considered in our current situation. It has become public knowledge at this point that our medications have been resulting in negative side effects in a large number of consumers, including a well-known public figure. Due to this unfortunate circumstance, it is imperative that we address this issue in the best way possible so that we can assure our consumers that we are improving our medications and that
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ensuring customers that his or her information will continue to remain to stay protected and that the HIPPA privacy laws are continued to be followed. As well as the law suit that arose where Rite Aid agreed to pay $1 million dollars to settle a HIPAA privacy case (Physicians Billing Associates International, 2006). The Rite Aid pharmacy recently put out an updated article concerning patient privacy. The notice
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Health Care Communication Methods My name is Tsering Wangmo and I work as an administrator at my local nursing home called “Serene Senior Living”. I absolutely love my job and feel truly blessed to work at a place where I feel both gratified as well as fulfilled. It truly feels good going home at the end of my shift knowing that I did something that day that was meaningful. It really gives me so much joy to be working for the wise and peaceful elderly residents, and although I can indeed go on
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RESP 243 The HIPAA violators in this case were Andrea Smith, LPN, 25, of Trumann, Arkansas, and her husband, Justin Smith. They were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to violate and substantive violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in December. At the time, Smith worked as a nurse at Northeast Arkansas Clinic. Smith accessed a patient’s private medical information on November 28, 2006, according to the indictment. She then shared that information
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is that they will need. They must invest in a sound security system to prevent loss of information to include their customers personal information. This security system must also meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requirements. They must also invest in new equipment in order to continue being efficient and successful. After the transition the dentist will be fully capable of doing every aspect of their business either in the office, at the schools or where
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of communication methods for my health care organization (Garden Manor), including the advantages and disadvantages of using traditional, electronic, and social media for health care communication. Then I will going into discussing the effects of HIPAA and other regulations on the use of media for health care communication. Communication plays an important role in healthcare and is very much often neglected by people in the healthcare industry. Among all healthcare manager functions,
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or more depending on the state). ACA and HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) act have encouraged the widespread use of electronic records versus paper for obvious reasons. Now, HITECH act is designed to enforced HIPAA (Health Information and Accountability Act) standards, and prosecute major PHI (Protected Health Information) violations. These acts, rules and regulations are in place to protect patient’s private health information. However, this information could
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Virtue theory is a thought in ethics that the individual is responsible for all ethical choices. It focuses on the outcome of a decision rather than setting rules for specific occasions. Each individual is responsible for making their own choices and predicting the outcome of that decision being made. Stealing is unethical but if a worker is stealing food from his job, which is a multi million-dollar corporation, is it really considered stealing? Maybe this person is stealing because he has to so
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