Health Service Administrators are the healthcare providers behind the scenes that ensure that the health care field is running smoothly by planning, directing, and coordinating health services. The job description includes overseeing medical operations, organizing operations, and the financial aspects of healthcare. They also obtain careers in educating the community on healthcare and medical aspects, providing safety during emergencies and public threats. Just as many healthcare providers’, health service administrators are seen as leaders, coordinators, and facilitators. Their work affects patients, families, and the community as a whole. Being in the healthcare profession and possessing certain responsibilities must be held to very high
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Laws are in place to prevent harm and protect the rights of the individual according to Pozgar, (2013, p.194). Very closely correlated with ethics, laws are used as a monitoring device in the health care field. We must always find a balance between what we as professionals feel to be morally sufficient in conjunction with all laws that pertain to health care providers and their patients. The laws that are in place are implemented to protect patients, employees, all facilities, and care …show more content…
The laws however provide sufficient guidance to rectify the issues that each administrator is faced with, and it enables a course of corrective action. One major law that can directly affect administrators is that of the Civil Rights Act 1964. “The Civil Right Act is ensured by the U.S Constitution, and deals with the rights of individuals in a free society particularly that of discrimination due to race, gender religion etc.” (Pozgar, 2013, p.243). I believe it is fundamentally wrong to segregate someone for any of these particular reasons by denying them access to healthcare. This law instills us with the power to bar any discrimination within our work field. Discrimination can appear in instances within hiring, terminating, providing financial assistance to patients, and within coworker relationships. Discrimination is not only an act of behavior such as denying someone of their right but can be something as simple as speaking indifferently about a patient to another coworker or health administrator. None of these behaviors should be tolerated and must be directly dealt with in order to eradicate it
Laws are in place to prevent harm and protect the rights of the individual according to Pozgar, (2013, p.194). Very closely correlated with ethics, laws are used as a monitoring device in the health care field. We must always find a balance between what we as professionals feel to be morally sufficient in conjunction with all laws that pertain to health care providers and their patients. The laws that are in place are implemented to protect patients, employees, all facilities, and care …show more content…
The laws however provide sufficient guidance to rectify the issues that each administrator is faced with, and it enables a course of corrective action. One major law that can directly affect administrators is that of the Civil Rights Act 1964. “The Civil Right Act is ensured by the U.S Constitution, and deals with the rights of individuals in a free society particularly that of discrimination due to race, gender religion etc.” (Pozgar, 2013, p.243). I believe it is fundamentally wrong to segregate someone for any of these particular reasons by denying them access to healthcare. This law instills us with the power to bar any discrimination within our work field. Discrimination can appear in instances within hiring, terminating, providing financial assistance to patients, and within coworker relationships. Discrimination is not only an act of behavior such as denying someone of their right but can be something as simple as speaking indifferently about a patient to another coworker or health administrator. None of these behaviors should be tolerated and must be directly dealt with in order to eradicate it