Importance Of Professional Ethics In Healthcare

1.Articulate your position as the top administrator concerned about the importance of professional conduct within the health care setting. Justify your position.

My position as top administrator is to make sure that we have good ethical standards when working in a healthcare organization. You must always comply with federal and state standards when dealing with patients and the types of treatments they receive and the facility operations as well. This is to ensure that a set of rules and regulation are in place and are being followed. Ethical Standards in healthcare organizations promote health care by eliminating errors by practitioners as to the guidelines that are really set or established for the facility (Lewis, 2016).

When it comes to

They are derived from ethical treatise, cultural morality, and jurisprudence. When it comes to the physician itself, it can be such as them acting in their own interest besides as in the patient’s best interest. Having personal relationships with patient or spending a certain amount of time with a patient due the patient being attractive or likening, or making sexual advances and being too friendly or touchy (Aravind, Krishnaram, Thasneem, 2012). As for the workers making racial comments or showing prejudice against another race or making derogatory remarks against a patient. Treating a patient, a certain way due to a medical condition or disability or disclosing information to others without their acknowledgment. Refusing to treat a patient due to a race, gender, religious, disability or any

Most cases this part is easy to establish cause it’s by a doctor and patient’s relationships which most people have by the doctor already (Bal, 2009). Secondly, is breach of the duty of care in a medical negligence case, this is when the doctor has not followed the standard protocols when it came to the care of the patient, such as surgeries that were not perform properly, surgical tools left in patient, incorrect procedures done, misdiagnoses and etc. Third is causation as an element of medical negligence which they say is the easiest to analyze because you ask yourself simple questions pertaining to your doctors screw up and if it’s a simple no you can prove causation. Lastly, is Damages as an element of medical negligence which where you must prove that the doctor has caused significant harm to you physically, mentally, and financially while compromising the protocols and standards that are supposed to be followed as well. If, all these four elements can be proven, then you have a case to go forward with and 9 times out of a 10 a settlement as well (Matzo,