Ethical Dilemmas Of Healthcare Professionals

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, the Affordable care Act from President Obama gives consumers more options and benefits when seeking coverage from insurance company. It offers lowering cost as well as gets more access to high quality of care. This law creates Patient’s Bill of Rights that is very effective to protect consumers from any abuses or fraud from insurance company. Some preventive services are available to many Americans especially Medicare recipients at no cost. Not just that, they also receive a special offer of 50 percent discount for any well-known drugs in the market place under Medicare named “donut hole.” The Affordable Care Act helps other organizations and programs to convince healthcare providers

A physician has the responsibility to determine the legitimacy of all work injuries and to report its finding accurately. If a physician prepares a report with the intent to use it in support of a fraudulent claim and knowingly submitted for payment under an insurance contract, the physician may be subject to fines or imprisonment and risks the possibility of having his or her medical license revoked. Presenting a claim for an item or services based on a code known to result in greater payment or submit a claim for services not medically needed is a violation of the false claim act.

The healthcare system is faced with many ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. There are basic principles in health care that every health care worker should practice to ensure safety and to protect the rights of others. This begins with confidentiality. Providing patient privacy and confidentiality are essential to promoting a bond between patients and his or her practitioners as well as preserving the patient’s dignity (Edge & Grove, 2007). Under some circumstances, patient’s personal information is retrieved without their consent. While some may view this as not an issue, others lose trust in the people they look toward to care for them in critical times, and this can lead to legality troubles.

While visiting my mother in the hospital this past weekend, I was a witness to an event that was quite unsettling. A homeless gentleman, who looked to be about 35 years old, was asked to pay $150 upfront for medical services due to his lack of insurance. The man informed the medical assistant that he was homeless and did not have the funds, to which the assistant responded that no services would be rendered without pay and turned the man away. The man stated that he was experiencing continuous chest pains, which could be an early symptom of a more serious condition. However due to his lack of funds and the fact that he was uninsured he was not permitted to be seen by the doctor.

Nurses are constantly challenged by changes which occur in their practice environment and are under the influence of internal or external factors. Due to the increased complexity of the health system, nowadays nurses are faced with ethical and legal decisions and often come across dilemmas regarding patient care. From this perspective a good question to be raised would be whether or not nurses have the necessary background, knowledge and skills to make appropriate legal and ethical decisions. Even though most nursing programs cover the ethical and moral issues in health care, it is questionable if new nurses have the depth of knowledge and understanding of these issues and apply them in their practice

Do health care workers have the right to conscientiously object to providing care if it varies from their own personal moral and ethical belief system?

It is indeed stressful to be faced in a predicament where someone’s life is at stake; whether be on the ED’s or the ICU’s side. Therefore, as a leader representing the ICU, my approach would probably be to assess the situation, identify the problem, and collaborate with the ED leadership to resolve the current and potential issues that resulted from the disagreements. Meanwhile, I will emphasize to the ICU staff the importance of having an awareness of their behavior, especially if they are verbalizing their frustrations towards the other department since critical situations in the health care settings entails rationally solving the problem while setting aside our departmental differences to achieve our common goal of giving a superior care

Healthcare professionals face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. Dilemmas concerning staffing issues, patient care, to end of life issues. When healthcare workers are faced with ethical challenges their person values, past experiences, rules, and culture influence their decisions. At times, our own values and beliefs may conflict with what the patient wants and we then have to find a way to resolve our own moral values with the duty of the profession.

Although health care in the United States is considered to be one of the top ranking medical services, it is however becoming inadequate due to one fatal flaw: money (Vaughn 692). It is well known that a person admitted to the hospital, also admits their wallet, as the costs of certain procedures can be quite draining. However this is reality. There is no such thing as a health care system which “can provide maximum healthcare for everyone” (Vaughn 681). Therefore doctors must decide what is ethical and what is immoral when “costs restrict how much health care can be delivered” (Vaughn 681), to certain patients. This is the question in which Dr. Oz must ask himself as he is informed that his patient cannot afford a particular treatment; a

Moral distress develops when a person identifies the ethically correct action but that action cannot be put into effect (Delgado & Epstein, 2010) Per the American Nurses Association the nurse is required to protect the patient’s right to make their own decision but in case the patient is unable to do so the provider and the nurse is responsible to look after the patient’s wellbeing especially when the patient is unable to (ANA, 2001). What happens to the patient when they are unable to make their own decisions and the family is not making medically appropriate decisions for the patient? What is the responsibility of the nurse and the health care provider? Up to 63.9% respondents reported frequently or daily encountering issues related to protecting

Due to the nature of this essay, it is important to consider parts from both sides of the argument, as it provokes critical thinking on the matter and demonstrates how a paper of this kind operates. The very first argument from the Point’s side of view is concentrated around liberty and freedom that is the outcome of the free market: supply and demand. In short, the writer is asking why healthcare cannot obey the same rules of supply and demand as other services and goods do. That means all people need is to prioritize what they need and make money to obtain it and those who do not want it the same way have freedom to prioritize something else. The reason why healthcare cannot obey these rules, as the writer puts it, is the fact that it is “morally special” (P.3). One of the points that the writer uses in support of her opinion is The President’s Commission’s volume, analysis of which I find incredibly interesting from both legal and ethical points of view. “In the absence of health care people may not be able to live full lives in which they can enjoy a full range of opportunities.”(P. 4) This argument states there is a significant difference between opportunities a person with good health care system to back him/her up has and a person with no access to health care. However, this situation can also be analyzed from different perspective, such as a relatively healthy person with no genetic problems, with a relatively healthy life style ( no substance abuse, no smoking, overeating, normalized fitness system ) relies on healthcare system much less compared to a person with, as

My initial approach would be to save the patient by monitoring her blood pressure and heart rate. To keep her alive would have been my top priority before proceeding to any other step. Once she is stable enough to respond to the treatment, I will advised with the staff to cleaning the patient to perform other tests. First, I would do my best to save her life at all cost, and place her on a ventilator for a period of time hoping her respiratory condition to improve before contacting her primary care doctor and relatives regarding her status. Because many risks are involved using a ventilator such as lung damage, infections, I would urge the staff to contact any close relatives about the procedure and contact her previous doctor to know any past

An ethical dilemma is based upon personal values that relay an action being good or bad with an end motive to perform an action rightfully or wrongly. In the medical profession each individual holds a responsibility to apply ethical standards to conduct an ethical practice. Frequently, nurses and physicians see withholding or not telling the whole truth of information is within their professional responsibility. It can be apprised that a patient can become perturbed if they are told more information than they may desire. Deception is mainly stated when a healthcare professional gives inaccurate information or withholds accurate information to mislead an individual (Teasdale & Kent 1995).

In a health professional workplace there are a number of guidelines set with the purpose of ensuring that workplace runs smoothly and professionally. However, these guidelines are sometimes broken, which results in professional practice issues. This enquiry is based off a podiatrist, Mark, who has encountered these kinds of issues.

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