As a health care manager, you are included in the ethics committee. There has been a new case brought before the committee for your review and recommendation. You will be responsible for reviewing the facts and providing a written response to the committee with your recommendations. This process will allow you the opportunity to analyze the health care manager’s role in ethical decision-making in a health care ethics case.
Preparing for the Assessment
- Read the Ethics Committee Case Study & Consideration Questions.
- Review the questions to consider when reviewing an ethical dilemma.
- Review the Ethical Decision Models & Problem-Solving Methodologies.
Assessment Deliverable
Write an 875- to 1,225-word response to the ethical committee regarding your recommendation as a health care manager presented with this case. In your response, you should:
- Identify the major stakeholders in the case.
- Identify the ultimate decisions makers (e.g., medical team, parents, etc.) in the case.
- Explain Baby Bundle’s rights in this case.
- Describe the ethical theories or principles that pertain to the case.
- Analyze your role as a health care manager in this ethics committee decision.
- Based on your review of the case and the fact that the parents are not in agreement, state your recommendation to the committee for next steps.
Cite at least 2 sources according to APA guidelines.
Please Note:
Make sure you address the “Baby Bundle” case and no other one.
You must use appropriate headings that match the deliverables for each of the six (6) required elements. Failure to do so will result in a 5% penalty for failure to follow directions.
Please remove all instructions, including the actual case study, prior to submission. This includes the actual case study (do not include with the paper.) If you include instructions, a 5% penalty will be assessed for failure to follow instructions.
Please submit as an attachment using a Word document. Do not submit .pdf files or any other format that the instructor may not be able to open or insert comments on. If you do so, a 5% penalty will be assessed for failure to follow instructions.
Make sure you read the “Ethics Committee Case Study and Consideration Questions” and review the “Ethical Decision Models & Problem-Solving Methodologies” prior to beginning your paper.
Ethical Decision Models & Problem-Solving Methodologies
7 Step Guide
Moral Model
State the problem (specific thought or feeling that prompts you to feel uncomfortable).
Check facts (consider all points of view).
Identify relevant factors (people involved, laws, personal codes of conduct, etc.).
Develop a list of options (consider a variety of decisions or solutions).
Test the options.
Make a choice.
Review previous steps (consider how you could avoid having to make this decision in the future).
Massage the dilemma
Outline the options
Resolve the dilemma
Act by applying
Look back and evaluate entire process
Harm test: Does this option do less harm than the alternatives?
Publicity test: Would I want my choice of this option published in the newspaper? Would I want my grandmother to know?
Defensibility test: Could I defend this choice of option before a committee of peers, or a Congressional Committee without appearing self-serving?
Reversibility test: Would I still think this choice of option was good if it were applied to me instead of others especially if some of the effects are adverse?
Colleague test: What might my profession's governing board or ethics committee say about this option?
Organization test: What does my organization's ethics officer or legal counsel say about this?
Virtue test: Would a virtuous person do this? What kind of person does this? What kind of person would I become if I did this kind of thing all the time?
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