Hippocratic Oath: Lady Of The Lake Hospital

Hospital Management “…I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.” (Tyson) these words are part of an oath that is spoken by those entering in the medical field, an oath to fulfill to the best judgment and capabilities ethically and morally to treat all people that come in their care; this is the Hippocratic Oath. All those in the medical field, particularly in a hospital setting, are familiar with the Hippocratic Oath and it is used day in and day out. As managers of a company or organizations you apply similar methods in

Our Lady of the Lake Hospital is a not for profit organization, meaning it is not obligated for increasing income and profits, but about servicing the community. My source, Bella a mental and behavioral tech that was employed with the hospital during 1996-2001, shed some light on the hospital’s favoritism of the medical units over the behavioral units. Like most hospitals, Our Lady of the Lake had/has hospital wide mission statement that lays claim that everyone has a duty to the health and well-being of all patients and is responsible to the hospital as well (Bella). However, the tech says that is not the case in regards to the behavioral unit, which is governed by a different set of rules than the other units. The behavioral unit deals with the mentally ill

Underpayment inequity exists when a person’s own outcome- input ratio is perceived to be less than that of a referent (Jones). Which comes from the equity theory that states it’s a theory of motivation that focuses on people’s perceptions of the fairness of their work out-comes relative to their work inputs (Jones). The fairness is extremely uneven inside the hospital; my source validates the inequality between medical units and the behavioral units. By state law a hospital has to have psych ward or a behavioral unit for the mentally ill patients of all variety. Management is not open to the fact that the behavioral unit patients are to be treated to the same equality that the medical unit patients get. Though it is hard to see successful outcome with this unit than those of the medical units, the successful out-comes are there and should be boasted, yet it is not. The pay of the employees should be fair across the board, rather than the disproportionate ratio that is at, favoring the medical units. The inequality that is present have a security issue that leaves the patients with not enough staff to properly attend to the patients and the patients not having enough staff to help