Essay Analysis of Ethical Climate/Culture
Advocacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence are frequently used vocabulary in my ethical dictionary. Those words have inspired me and have kept my integrity since I grew my nursing career. During the period of time, obstacles that prevented me from advocating my patients have become relentless when the conflict of interest involved between the patients and the organization that I worked for. I have quit my job once because the organizational culture pushed my integrity to the limit. I have a different job now, but I still face ethical challenges almost every day. I have learned my lesson that quitting a job is not the best way out because no matter where I work, I will always be challenged by politics and ethics. Preparing myself for solving upcoming problems is the ultimate solution. According to the student essay in Appendix A, the writer, Michael Jordan, faced several ethical challenges at the operating room (OR) due to lack of administrative support, discouragement from the surgical department, and …show more content…
According to Dr. Silva (1998) who is the director of the Office of Health Care Ethics at the George Mason University defined that ethics gap is the difference between what is ethical and what is desirable for business. Mr. Jordan’s ethical argument was to advocate patients, whereas the surgical supervisor and administrative staff defended current surgical schedule to avoid more ethical challenges. A conflict of interest occurred in both parties. Once the conflict of interest occurred, both parties should have analyzed the situation together and have come up with a solution. Mediation of the conflict could have been established if the administrative staff was more supportive and open-minded to Mr. Jordan’s thoughts. A solution might have been worked out if the surgical supervisor have been more proactive to evaluate the current surgical
Advocacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence are frequently used vocabulary in my ethical dictionary. Those words have inspired me and have kept my integrity since I grew my nursing career. During the period of time, obstacles that prevented me from advocating my patients have become relentless when the conflict of interest involved between the patients and the organization that I worked for. I have quit my job once because the organizational culture pushed my integrity to the limit. I have a different job now, but I still face ethical challenges almost every day. I have learned my lesson that quitting a job is not the best way out because no matter where I work, I will always be challenged by politics and ethics. Preparing myself for solving upcoming problems is the ultimate solution. According to the student essay in Appendix A, the writer, Michael Jordan, faced several ethical challenges at the operating room (OR) due to lack of administrative support, discouragement from the surgical department, and …show more content…
According to Dr. Silva (1998) who is the director of the Office of Health Care Ethics at the George Mason University defined that ethics gap is the difference between what is ethical and what is desirable for business. Mr. Jordan’s ethical argument was to advocate patients, whereas the surgical supervisor and administrative staff defended current surgical schedule to avoid more ethical challenges. A conflict of interest occurred in both parties. Once the conflict of interest occurred, both parties should have analyzed the situation together and have come up with a solution. Mediation of the conflict could have been established if the administrative staff was more supportive and open-minded to Mr. Jordan’s thoughts. A solution might have been worked out if the surgical supervisor have been more proactive to evaluate the current surgical