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Week	Assignment	
1	How would you sort through a conflict created when the four ethical principles each focus on a different and conflicting action? 
How do your individual ethics affect your professional decision making? 
What are ways to maintain morale integrity in professional decision making?	The following statement is from Chapter 13. "Be vigilant about your moral integrity--never take it for granted." What does this mean to you in your current role and how might that change if you were the healthcare administrator? Describe 3 actions that you can do to ensure personal vigilance to ensure moral integrity.
2	What are ways that health care laws or regulations affect your health care organization or a health care organization with which you are familiar? 
What are the pros and cons of current state-by-state licensure versus a national licensure that has been discussed for health care professionals? 
Select and describe a federal or state health care agency. What is the individual provider, organizational, and community effect of the agency you selected?
	
3	What is one legal and ethical dilemma that administrators commonly face with their employees? How could you resolve these dilemmas? 
Who is a potential stakeholder and what is their interest in the outcome when there are resource allocation issues? For example, how would you ethically respond to resource allocation issues such as who would get a transplant? Who gets a scarce treatment or immunization? Who has access to a provider in high demand?
 	What legal risks are present when entering into and working under a health care contract? How would you ensure that a health care contract meets all legal requirements to be valid? How can you avoid ethical issues in meeting contract requirements? (200-300 words)

4	What are ways that medical error affects health care delivery? How can principles of quality be used to identify, correct, and prevent errors? 
How do professional and organizational codes influence accountability and ethical decision making in health care organizations? 
What actions can an administrator take to create a corporate culture that promotes ethical decision making? 
How can an administrator encourage accountability and social responsibility in health care organizations	
5	Describe what you feel to be the most important change arising from health care reform. 
What can an administrator do to comply with these changes? What are the ways health care prevention, quality, and reporting will change under health care reform?	1)	What are the implications and effect of tough ethical beginning-of-life and end-of-life decisions? How do these decisions affect the individual, the family, society, and health care providers? (200-300 words)

2)	HC reform

One of the readings this week is about healthcare reform and the impact on ethics. There is extensive information about healthcare reform since this article was published in 2010. Please select an article from the last two years related to health care reform and summarize key points as the topic relates to ethics in 200 words. I have included the ERR article to get you started. This is a separate questions for the week and not included in the participation points.
 
Readings:
Health care reform to have impact on ethics. (2010, May). Medical Ethics Advisor, 26(5), 54.
 

6	What are the breach notice requirements for business associates and covered entities under the HITECH Act (2009)? What are the ethical responsibilities of an administrator responding to a breach? 
What are the legal requirements of data reporting, electronic prescribing, preventive data indicators, and quality data reporting? What can an administrator do to promote ethical and legal compliance by the organization? 
How can an administrator in a health care organization influence others in the organization to use data legally and ethically? How can an administrator respond to reluctance to comply with legal and ethical standards?	

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