310 SLP Ethical Issues in Healthcare

ISSUES IN HEALTHCARE ETHICS

As a healthcare professional, you will be tasked with making critical decisions that will test your ethical understanding and abilities.



For your Module 2 SLP, you are to take a short quiz that will provide you with actual cases:



Open Learn. (2017). Difficult healthcare decisions: What will you choose? Retrieved from http://www(dot)open(dot)edu/openlearn/medical-ethics-quiz



For each question you can select one of two responses. Once you submit your answer to the question you will be provided with a brief summary and a percentage of individuals who agreed with your response. You are to take notes for each question as you go along in the quiz, as you only are able to take the quiz once. In a 2-page paper, complete the following:



For each question provide a brief description of the case, your response, and the percentage of individuals who agreed with you.

Explain the rationale for your response and identify and examine the ethical principles and theories the case presented. Support your rationale with scholarly reference(s).

SLP Assignment Expectations

Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.

Limit your response to a maximum of 2 pages.

Support your proposal with peer-reviewed articles, and use at least 3 references. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www(dot)angelo(dot)edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.

You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your assignment: https://owl(dot)english(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

Required Reading

ACEP. (n.d). The Ethics of Health Care Reform: Issues in Emergency - Medicine - An Information Paper. Retrieved from https://www.acep.org/life-as-a-physician/ethics--legal/ethics/the-ethics-of-health-care-reform-issues-in-emergency---medicine---an-information-paper/#sm.0000s5twwucmldpxvhb28muxrbrou

ACHE. (2016). ACHE code of ethics. Retrieved from https://ache.org/abt_ache/code.cfm

Airth-Kindree, N., & Kirkhorn, L. C. (2016). Ethical grand rounds: Teaching ethics at the point of care. Nursing Education Perspectives, 37(1), 48-50. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5480/13-1128

Benson, Michael D,M.D., F.A.C.O.G., Benson, Jordan B,C.P.A., J.D., & Stein, Mark S,J.D., PhD. (2016). Hospital quality improvement: Are peer review immunity, privilege, and confidentiality in the public interest? Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, 11(1), 1-27.

Brothers, K. B., & Rothstein, M. A. (2015). Ethical, legal and social implications of incorporating personalized medicine into healthcare. Personalized Medicine, 12(1), 43-51. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/pme.14.65

Denecke, K., Bamidis, P., Bond, C., Gabarron, E., Househ, M., Lau, A. Y. S., ... Hansen, M. (2015). Ethical Issues of Social Media Usage in Healthcare. Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 10(1), 137–147. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Fiscella, K., Tobin, J. N., Carroll, J. K., He, H., & Ogedegbe, G. (2015). Ethical oversight in quality improvement and quality improvement research: New approaches to promote a learning health care system. BMC Medical Ethics, 16(63). doi: 10.1186/s12910-015-0056-2. Accessed from http://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-015-0056-2

Flite , C. A., & Harman, L. B. (2013). Code of ethics: Principles for ethical leadership. Perspectives in Health Information Management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association, 10(Winter), 1d. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544144/

Ghosh, K. (2015). Benevolent leadership in not-for-profit organizations. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 36(5), 592-611.

Gillon, R. (2015). Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good medical practice and therefore for good medical ethics. Journal of medical ethics, 41(1), 111-116.

Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]. (2016). HFMA's code of ethics. Accessed from https://www.hfma.org/about-hfma/bylaws-and-code-of-ethics.html

Kostkova, Patty P. (2016). Who owns the fata? Open fata for healthcare. Frontiers in Public Health, 4(4), 7. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00007

Kulshreshtha, P. (2015). Ethical leadership and contemporary organizational ethics: Principles and cases. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 12(1), 94-97.

Mascone, C. F. (2015). Navigating ethical dilemmas. Chemical Engineering Progress, 111(2), 3.

McLean, S. A. M. & Campbell, T.D. (Ed.). (2006). Applied legal philosophy: First do no harm: Law, ethics and healthcare. Abingdon, GB: Routledge. 

NAHQ. (2011). NAHQ code of ethics and standards of practice for healthcare professionals. Retrieved from http://nahq.org/about/code-of-ethics