New York City College of Technology City University of New York Law and Ethics Case: Jeanette M. and the Phone Call Erica Rotstein October 7, 2017 Professor Bonsignore HAS 3560 -Legal Aspects of Health Care Abstract The advancement in the field of medicine over the years has led to doctors and health care providers having more responsibilities on their hands. This brings into question what should and shouldn’t be done, as well as what is morally and ethically right. However, this isn’t so cut and dry.…
HCR ManorCare is a leading healthcare provider in the United States that specializes in skilled nursing care. Along with providing the best care for our patients, HCR ManorCare, as stated in the “Standards of Business Conduct” expects nothing less than the best from its employees. This document covers everything they expect ethically and professionally from its employees while providing the information they need to ensure they are informed of the repercussions if the policies are not followed. KEY POINTS HCR ManorCare lists four key points that ensure that their employees maintain and ethical and honest work environment, which will lead to an ethical and honest company. First is “you should not ever knowingly falsify any documents or give…
Alabama ISSUES AND TRENDS 2 Roles, Ethical Considerations, and Effectiveness of the Adult Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner In all healthcare fields the providers are bound by a moral code of ethics that are defined within the ethical principles and serve to guide the care of all individuals. According to Hamric, Hanson, Tracy, and O’Grady (2014) ethical principles are a set of core values that are fundamental obligations that healthcare professionals use to guide all care provided in the medical field. Ethical Principles The Adult Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) is guided by a set of ethical principles that help provide the kind of care every individual deserves.…
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by American journalist Sheri Fink is a very inspirational book because it focused on the events that happened in Memorial Medical Center when the hospital was flooded and had no electricity after Hurricane Katrina struck the city. Time, space, communication, and identity are portrayed throughout the book. These four factors are important in inter-ethnic relationships between patients and health care providers. Being able to identify these factors in a clinical setting, health care providers can provide more efficient care for all patients.…
Such decisions regarding patients with severe and deteriorating illness should be processed with respect to the patient’s condition becoming worse with time. Having an ethics board or a medical community to alleviate the pressure of a single doctor making a decision for a patient who is not able to act autonomously would allow for a treatment plan to be determined earlier. In Mary’s case, the court ruling prevented the doctor’s from acting to save her…
Two problems are occurring concurrently in the case of Fran. The first involves the parents attempt to force Fran to continue life-sustaining cancer treatments when she has made up her mind that she no longer wishes to continue the treatments. She has come to the decision that her quality of life has diminished and she wants to enjoy the time she has left. The second problem involves the parent’s threat to take Fran to court in attempt to have her judged incompetent, thereby allowing them to take control of her treatment.…
A mother Chelsea Reed and her son Justin were rushed into the hospital after they were injured in a car accident. Mrs. Reed has a head laceration and a fractured wrist. Her son is suffering from internal bleeding and needs to have emergency surgery to stop the bleeding. The doctor informs Mrs. Reed that Justin has lost thirty percent of blood volume and will be transfused before going into surgery to make sure he does not bleed out on the operation table. As a single mother, Mrs. Reed solely responsible for informing the doctor that she does not want blood to be used to increase the blood volume in her son.…
A conflict between a physician and patient on the course of treatment is a common topic that arises in bioethical conversation. This case explores the topic of paternalistic choices dealing with patient autonomy and when it is ethically reasonable for a physician to intervene and decide as to whether an individual is competent to make decisions about their own care. The patient in the case, Mr. Howe was asked to make a lifesaving medical decision while in duress and not fully understanding the procedure and the potential outcome if he refused. In this case I believe the physician made the correct decision to intubate Mr. Howe against his explicit instructions not to. The physician made a determination that the patient was not accurately expressing his wishes as if he was of sound mind.…
In addition to ethical issues faced in healthcare organizations, are legal issues. According to Pozgar (2016), laws are enacted to regulate human behavior for the benefit of society. Laws are a basis for conduct in our society and if breached can lead to serious implications. Public policy is the principle of law that holds that no one can do that which tends to be injurious to the public or against the public good (Pozgar, 2016, p. 240). Though not directly involved with patient care, a health services administrator should enhance the overall quality of life and well being of individuals under their organizations care.…
The nursing code of ethics have been established by nurses to provide guidance for ethical relationships, responsibilities, behaviours and decision-making (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). Within the code, there are seven primary values that outline the responsibilities central to nursing practice (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). In regards to the described case, four values have been compromised: promoting health and well-being, promoting and respecting informed decision-making, preserving dignity, and promoting justice. Promoting health and well-being. This Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) value refers to advocating for your patient to ensure that their health is the priority concern (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008).…
Kailani, I congratulate you for taking part on that policy change. Transitioning smoothly from the emergency care (ER) to intensive care (ICU) is not a simple matter. I have witnessed many safety issues due to miscommunication and treatment delay happening between ER and ICU. Consequently, relationships between ER staff and the ICU are commonly known as tensed and conflicting in many hospitals I have worked. Similar to your organization, discerning managers implemented a way to remedy the issue and proposed the ICU and ER staff days of orientation to each unit so that understanding of the routine and responsibilities can be achieved.…
“The delegating physician, the practice, and the medical assistant can be sued for negligence if the medical assistant does not perform a duty up to the standard of care of a reasonably competent medical assistant,”(Balasa, JD, NBA, 2015 (UPDATED)). This quote sets the tone of law and ethics in the medical field. Some aspects of our minds we control ; that we are aware of. However, some aspects of it are ticking in normality and we don’t even have to think about them, these are mechanisms of the medulla oblongata, the control center of basic motor functions. All our decisions of right and wrong, our conscious decisions are our ethics, in the medical field we make a promise to ourselves and others to do what's right.…
Ethical principles are not laws, but guiding principles about what is good and what is bad, that should direct doctors and other health care professionals in their work and decision making. Issues arising over end-of-life care involving decisions that affect the nature and timing of an individual's death raise difficult ethical conflicts for all concerned and can be a source of discord between health professionals within a team, health professionals and family members, or between different family members. Ethical dilemmas arise when there is a perceived conflicting duty to the patient, such as a conflict between a duty to preserve life and a duty to act in a patient's best interests, or when an ethical principle such as respect for autonomy conflicts with a duty not to…
Abstract Law is formed for a motive and it regulates in many areas like medicine, before practicing any medical procedure or conducting a form of administrative position each medical specialist or non-medical specialist operative must comprehend a difference between ethical or unethical. Ethical and Unethical plays a significant role in our humanity every way it is whether up to how you want to approach it. According to “The case of Jeanette M. And the phone call” altered from the beginning of chapter 1 of “Medical Law and Ethics” inscribed by Bonnie Fremgen, it exemplifies how a medical receptionist and the doctor action resulted in death of Jeanette M. This case falls into so many categories of violations and code of ethics such as being…
VIP Services in the Hospital Setting: A Very Important Ethical Problem Jeszy McGuire Elms College Imagine this scenario; you have been sitting in the emergency waiting room for three hours surrounded by sick people, and the same plain grey walls. As you shift in your chair uncomfortably, you refrain from inhaling, because you know that the air becomes more contaminated with each patient that enters. The buzzing fluorescent lights overhead are nearly loud enough to mask a screaming toddler, who is unamused with a wire and bead toy in the corner. You are irritated. You feel as if you are waiting in line at a deli with a hundred numbers between the one on your ticket, and the one beneath the "serving customer #" sign.…