Response to Class 1

Working in the health care environment employees have a critical job to uphold. Every employee in medical setting must understand clearly and work within the scope of practice for his or her discipline. This means that nurses legally can provide care and treatment to patient- that a clinical staff that not licensed or certified would not be able to perform. In understanding these rules and regulation, it is imperative that employees practice within the guideline of their profession. Values are things that are important to or valued by someone. That someone can be an individual or collectively, an organization. A place where values are important is in relation to vision. Some of the imperatives for organizational vision are that it based on and consistent with the organization- core values. And an example of a vision statement they are looking at the organization- core values in different cases, integrity, professionalism, caring, teamwork, and professional are deemed important enough to include with the statement of the organization- vision. Changing the values of an organization, whether it is through teaching of the participants in moral principles, or the imposition of leadership committed to higher ethical principles, the contents of the existing organization must be dealt with directly for positive change to occur. Ignoring culture in attempting to refocus the values orientation of an organization is similar to ignoring causes and treating values. Organizations need to establish a commonly agreed upon set of ethical standards to guide decisions when individuals are confronted with conflicting obligations, cost-benefit trade-offs, and competing value choices. Training and educating employees will broaden their knowledge as to what needs to be implemented and set forth the organization mission. If you’re in a professional field and practices you considered unethical by all or nearly all healthcare professionals. Such practices include deriving personal income by referring patients for particular tests or procedures in which physician has a pecuniary interest, splitting fees and paying for referrals. Healthcare Administration managers in most organizations commonly strive to encourage ethical practices not only to ensure moral conduct, but they gain whatever healthcare advantage there may be in having potential patients and employees regard the company as ethical. Distributing and continually improving a company- code of ethics is one usual step managers can take to establish an ethical workplace.  Health care management can take responsibility for creating and sustaining conditions in which patients are likely to behave ethically and for minimizing conditions in which people might be tempted to behave unethically.  Example: management at a major hospital carefully guards its public image as a company that puts patient- health and well-being ahead of corporate profits, as exemplified in its code of ethics. 150 words