Social And Ethical Challenges For Improvement In Patient Safety

Systems thinking was established during this SMAC by understanding the connections of Information technology and the health care system. This SMAC involved the process that information technology have when it comes to providing safe patient care. As a result, while systems thinking allows new and useful methods to improve patient safety, it comes with it its own intangible challenges, if not documented and addressed. This SMAC allowed us to see the challenges that healthcare system faces and how they analyzed and apply systems thinking in assessing them. Understanding the challenges by completion of a SWOT analysis. Which required the development of an plan for improvement in patient safety by implementing and maintaining new processes and …show more content…
Improper management of healthcare professionals, clinical workflow processes, and information systems often lead to medical errors. Disclosure of medical errors to patients and family members serves as a substance for lawsuit and thus, the establishment of appropriate social and ethical morals cannot be ignored when implementing solutions to remedy this situation. Social and ethical issues that challenge the health care system as a result of medical errors need to be addressed. There is a general agreement between patient and provider, avoiding medical errors requires the establishment and management of compliance-based and values-based ethic. Whereas the compliance-based ethical environment describes ethical policies that focus on rules, monitoring employee behaviour, and punishing ethical misconduct; the values-based ethical environment describes ethical policies that focuses on employee’s commitment to values and social responsibility. A successful implementation of these ethical and social responsibilities will guide healthcare systems in managing risks, establishing rules, monitoring employees’ behaviours, and punishing ethical misconducts. Disciplining ethical and social misbehavior should be based on the core ethical principles, autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and