Theoretical Ethics Foundation for Future Reference
Theoretical Ethics Foundation for Future Reference
Throughout this course, you will be asked to refer back to the fundamental ethical theories presented in your studies for Unit 1. Develop a personal resource list that identifies and summarizes your understanding of the eight global and personal ethical theories from your Ethics in Health Administration text. This resource will prove valuable as you refer to and apply these fundamental theories in your future work for this course.
Share your personal resource list with your peers in as your main discussion post. Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Comment in detail on the content of the resource lists, discussing similarities and differences in your individual understanding and interpretation of the ethical theories.
DQ2 Ethics and Moral Integrity in Action
You have studied the concept of the relationship between personal moral integrity and ethical leadership practice, explored the National Center for Ethics in Health Care’s IntegratedEthics model, and listened to perspectives from professionals in the health care field. Discuss your understanding of the value of the relationship between personal moral integrity and the role of the health care manager to ensure that ethics are interwoven in all aspects of leading an organization. Identify examples of positive business outcomes that can be realized through ethical health care management practices. Directly refer to materials from your studies and your own personal experience to discuss and defend one specific positive business outcome.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. For each, contrast and compare aspects of their analysis of the relationship between moral integrity and the role of the health care manager with your own. Comment on your peer’s explanation and rational of the use of ethical management practices and positive business outcomes.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence
Share an example of an ethical management challenge that might come up in one of the categories of autonomy from your textbook, as well as a challenge related to beneficence, and a challenge related to nonmaleficence. Briefly explain why each might occur, and describe an approach a health care manager might take to resolve them.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Respectfully critique your peers’ discussions of ethical issues related to autonomy. Comment on what you learned from their work, and add any additional insights or information you feel would enhance their understanding of the ethical principle of autonomy.
DQ2 Applying the Principle of Justice
As you have learned in your studies for Unit 2, there are many aspects of the ethical principle of justice that must be recognized and successfully dealt with in health care management. You saw examples and perspectives on applying the principle of justice in leadership practice in areas of patient justice, staff justice, and market justice. You also considered the principle of distributive justice.
Select and describe a health care management position in any area of the health care system. It can be a sector in which you have experience, or one you would like to enter or further explore (for instance, for-profit, nonprofit, government or regulatory agency, large insurance organization, small private entity, specific department, et cetera).
Identify and discuss one area of justice as it might apply to the duties and responsibilities of those in management in that specific setting.
Describe an example of a potential ethical issue and recommend actions for proactive prevention as well as resolution after the fact.
Connect your ideas back to the ethical theories studied in Unit 1.
Directly refer to your studies and outside research in your writing to help explain and back up your personal ideas, insights, and opinions.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Comment on the ideas of your peers. Contrast and compare your findings and insights. Identify and discuss differences and similarities across the health care sectors and areas of justice you each chose.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 Market Forces Essay
Effective health care leaders recognize and respect the powerful relationship between market forces and ethical management challenges. Choose one of the market forces highlighted in Chapter 6 of your Ethics in Health Administration text: managed care, the aging of the baby boomers, or integrative medicine.
Choose one of the three and share an ethical challenge this market force has on the overall health care industry. Refine your work further to identify and discuss how this market force might directly present an ethical challenge in the health care industry sector you plan to pursue in your management career. Share ideas and recommendations for possible leadership actions to prevent or address this challenge.
Utilize your unit study material for this essay. In addition, perform research to locate and include current, credible sources of statistics and information in your descriptions and analysis. Be sure to directly refer back to the foundational ethical theories and concepts from Units 1 and 2 to support and help explain your ideas and insights.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Compare and contrast your ideas, insights and recommendations with those of your peers. Share insights, ask questions and respectfully debate opinions.
DQ2 Preparing for Your Informational Interview Report
This discussion is designed to help prepare you for your Informational Interview experience. The goal of the interview is to obtain an insider’s view of current ethical issues presented in health care management, and to increase your understanding of how managers utilize ethical principles and strategic efforts to prevent and address them.
Address each of the bullet points below. Refer directly to the How to Conduct an Informational Interview presentation. In addition, review the Unit 3 Introduction, and the Unit 6 Informational Interview Report (u06a2) description and scoring guide prior to completing this discussion.
Share the sector of the health care industry that you are interested in for your career.
Identify the potential interview managerial candidate you have chosen for your interview, and briefly describe his or her organization or department.
Share preparatory information about your target facility or department that you have begun to gather, as discussed in the presentation.
Share your interview questions. Follow the recommendations in the presentation for preparing your questions. Carefully consider the goal of the interview, the time allotment, and the information you require to complete the Informational Interview Report.
Review the additional information provided in the presentation. Share the aspects of the interview process you are most comfortable with and what you might consider a personal challenge.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. For each, comment and offer suggestions on your peer’s choice of interviewee, depth of preparation, and the quality and relevance of their interview questions. Identify ideas shared that will assist in your preparation. Share common concerns and helpful hints.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 Community Accountability
Health care leaders shoulder the responsibility of ensuring the communities they serve are provided with quality care and service. Organizational leaders must recognize and comply with regulations and guidelines from various organizations, depending on the sector of the health care industry they manage.
Choose a specific type of health care organization.
Research and describe an outside institution that is directly involved in guidance, credentialing, or accreditation for this type of organization.
Summarize the expectations and requirements.
Explain how compliance with this institution safeguards the community or population it serves.
Share a possible ethical issue related to staff competency and compliance in this institution.
Explain how a health care manager might prevent or resolve this type of issue.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. For each, compare differences and similarities between your chosen health care sector and outside institution and those of your peer. Share what you learned from your peer’s posting that helped expand your understanding of the influence of community on health care organizations.
DQ2 Corporate Social Responsibility
Review pages 44–46 in the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers textbook.
Research and share a recent or current example of a health care organization initiative that embodies corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles, aligns with Section V of the Code of Ethics of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and provides enrichment and value to the community.
Discuss how the three roles of health care managers were or might have been utilized for the success of this type of initiative.
Share an original idea for a CSR program you would be interested in implementing in your health care management career.
Be sure to directly relate ethical concepts from prior units in your work, as well as stewardship and fiduciary duty. (Add them to your resource list started in u01d1 for future reference.)
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Share your thoughts and reactions to the examples your peers shared. What impressed you most about the community value created by the CSR initiative? Comment on the differences and similarities in the approach of utilizing the three roles of the health care manager used with that of your example.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 Ethics Issues and Healthcare Finance Essay
In Chapter 9 of Ethics in Health Administration, the author poses questions under Points to Ponder (pg. 191). For your main discussion post, compose a detailed essay that reflects personal opinion and an evidence-based answer to one of the five questions. Refer directly to the textbook readings and additional material listed in your unit studies in your composition. Help explain and back up your personal ideas, reasoning and opinions with current data, statistics, and information from reliable and credible sources. From this point forward in the course, you may also refer to your informational interview findings when applicable in your work.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Share common ideas and insights, and discuss and respectfully debate differences of opinion. Comment on what you learned from your peers’ work and ask for any clarification if needed.
DQ2 Ethical Decision-Making Processes
Various tools and processes are available to leaders in health care to help guide and develop specific approaches for preventing and managing ethical issues. In the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers text, the authors present an ethical decision-making process framework example and steps. Summarize each of the seven steps of this process.
The authors also discussed common errors or decision traps that can occur during the ethical decision-making process. Choose one decision trap, describe it, and identify in which steps of the ethical decision-making process framework it might occur. Explain how, as a health care manager, you might use one of the three strategies presented on page 117 to avoid this decision trap or common error.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Contrast and compare your descriptions of the ethical decision-making process framework example and steps with those of your peers. Comment on their choice and analysis of a decision trap.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 6 Discussion
Organizational Culture and Ethics
Creating and maintaining a positive organizational culture in any organization or industry requires leaders to have exceptional awareness, communication, and management skills. When a shared identity is created and acceptance of the overall goals and mission of an organization is strong, ethical issues can more easily be prevented and resolved. This is vitally important in the health care industry, as every aspect of management faces crucial ethical elements.
Analyze this statement by discussing the concept of organizational culture. Share best practices of leaders for their development, and discuss the relationship between pressures created by the constant change occurring in the health care system and issues of ethics and culture.
Share a personal career-related experience regarding organizational culture, ethics, and the role and influence of leadership in its development and effectiveness. What worked and why? What needed improvement and how could it have been successfully addressed on a leadership level? Discuss whether or not the concept of storytelling was successfully used to help define the organizational culture.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Compare and contrast your ideas, insights, and personal experiences with those of your peers.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 7 Discussion
DQ1 Case Study 1: Vidant Health
In the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers text, the authors highlight Vidant Health as an example of how quality audits results can lead to quality improvement in operations management (pages 213–214).
Review the Mini-Case Study: Change for the Better in your textbook, and the Vidant Health resources linked in your Unit 7 studies. Utilize and directly refer to these resources as you address each of the three Mini-Case Study Questions on page 214. Your personal resource list, compiled in the first discussion in Units 1 and 2, will be useful for analyzing this case study as well.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Compare and comment on the management actions chosen by your peers with your own. Offer constructive comments, ask questions, and thank your peers for additional insights you gained from their compositions.
DQ2 Case Study 2: HIPAA Violations
Health care leaders must understand and respect the depth of the ethical implications related to the use of technology and data in all aspects of management, from patient care to operations management. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) identifies real-life cases of HIPAA violations on its Web site and these cases are shared in the media.
Chapter 12 of the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers textbook summarizes six of the most significant violation cases in recent years. Choose one of these cases listed on pages 215–216 under For Your Consideration (or a more recent occurrence) to evaluate. Research the OCR investigation and outcomes in detail. In your main post, summarize the details of the case and violations, and explain how and why actions taken within the organizations violated ethical principles. Recommend a strategy a health care manager might take to ensure this type of violation can be prevented. Be sure to cite and reference your additional research resources in your work.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Try to respond to peers who have chosen different violation cases from yours to help expand your overall knowledge and awareness. Comment on the application of ethical principles, choices of recommended action, and similarities or differences with to the case you chose.
DQ3 Sharing Informational Interview Experiences
Post your Unit 6 Informational Interview Report assignment for your peers to read over as they choose. Review your peers’ work as well.
This is an optional and ungraded, but recommended, activity. Sharing individual experiences and knowledge gained offers an enhanced learning opportunity for everyone, especially for the day-to-day practice of ethical management in a variety of specific sectors of the health care system.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 8 Discussion
Patient-Centered and End of Life Care
As you have read in detail in your studies for Unit 8, patient-centered and end of life care are priority approaches for delivering quality care throughout our current health care system.
Summarize the basic principles of the Planetree patient-centered care model, and explain why and how it is considered successful and of value.
Review the end of life related care resources in your studies and choose one to discuss. Describe what you learned from the information/material and explain how it might affect decisions and strategic planning made by health care managers.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Compare your analysis of the patient care models with those of your peers. Comment on their chosen end of life resources and analyses.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 9 Discussion
DQ1 Comparing Health Care Codes of Ethics
Review your studies to identify the code of ethics most relevant to your current or future health care managerial career (and your clinical code of ethics if you are bicodal). Visit the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Ethics Codes Collection to review examples of codes that guide staff under your management. List examples you identified. Choose one specific ethical principle, listed on page 76 of the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers text, and explain how the same principle is uniquely addressed in two different codes of ethics.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Comment on your peers’ research findings. To increase your awareness and enhance your learning, choose to read and respond to at least one learner in a sector of the health care system different than your own.
DQ2 Mini Case Study Evaluation
The influence of the aging baby boomers on the long-term care industry is formidable. Leaders in the management of long-term care facilities abide by a specific code of ethics through The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). In this discussion you will be exploring this aspect of ethical management in health care.
Review the mini case study, The Dining Rooms at the Legacy, in the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers text (pages 80–82). Provide detailed responses to the three mini case study questions:
Explain how the Legacy’s mission was followed when Mrs. Williams engaged Amy, the care planning team, and Mrs. Hightower in the process of transferring Mrs. Hightower from the Magnolia to the Azalea dining room.
Discuss at least two ethical principles that related to this case. Consider, for example, how autonomy and respect may have influenced the actions taken. (Refer to your personal resource list from Units 1 and 2.)
Do you think Mrs. Williams followed the ACHCA code? Explain why or why not.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Contrast and compare your findings and opinions with those of your peers, commenting on differences and similarities in your evaluations.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 10 Discussion
DQ1 Ethics and Key Management Processes
In your Ethics in Health Administration text, the author identifies the key processes of health care management as planning, organizing, staffing, influencing, and controlling (pages 358–368).
Review the examples of ethical applications related to these processes. Identify a specific management process that interests you. Review the ACHE Ethics Self-Assessment, paying particular attention to aspects related to this process. Discuss information, insights, experiences, writers, speakers, concepts, or theories from this course you personally feel will be valuable in your career for effectively addressing ethical issues related to this process.
Follow APA guidelines to cite and reference all of your resource materials in your work. Refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for assistance.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the main discussion posts of at least two learners as early in the week as possible to allow for continuing conversation. Comment thoughtfully on your peers’ course experiences. Share congratulations and encouragement on reaching another milestone toward completion of your degree program.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 1 Assignment
Course Reflection Journal
As a busy adult learner, it can be a challenge to find time to reflect fully on what you studied, wrote and discussed at the end of each unit. A Course Reflection Journal is integrated directly into this course to support you in taking a valuable, reflective pause at the end of each learning unit, prior to quickly moving on to new material.
Each week, you will reflect back on your most valuable takeaway, identify immediate or future applicability of your learning to your career, and identify what you would like to investigate further. You will also assemble a list of resources and create a personal resource repository for future use in your courses and career.
You will begin your entries in your journal this week in Unit 1. It is imperative that you wait until the end of each week to complete your entries, as they are based on what you have learned and experienced in your studies and research and on your participation in the discussions for the specific unit.
When you are ready, open your Course Reflection Journal (linked in the Resources) to begin your work. Simply click on the Save button throughout the week to save the draft work on your entries. At the end of the week, when your entries are complete, click on the Preview Unit Report button. Review your work and click on the Close and Save for Further Editing button if you still want to go back and make changes. If you are satisfied with your work, click on the Generate PDF for Assignment Submission button. Save the PDF and submit it as an attachment for your assignment for the current Unit.
Note: In Unit 10 you will Click on the Preview Full Report button to submit the entire journal as your U10a1.
Please refer to the Course Project Portfolio description to understand how your journal is part of the project. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 2 Assignment
Course Reflection Journal
This week, please complete the Unit 2 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 3 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 3 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 4 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 4 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 5 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 5 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 6 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 6 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 7 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 7 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 8 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 8 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 9 Assignment
This week, please complete the Unit 9 entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete your entry, download it, and submit it in this unit assignment.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.
Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 10 Assignment
Welcome to the completion of your Course Refection Journal.
This week, please complete the final, Unit 10, entry in your journal, based on your studies, research, and discussions with your peers. Review the Course Reflection Journal Scoring Guide as well as the Course Reflection Journal Presentation (linked in the Resources) to understand how your entries will be graded.
Follow the directions in the journal to complete and submit your entries. When you save your Unit 10 entries, all of your journal pages will be compiled into one document. Submit this document as your Unit 10 assignment. Please take the time to review your completed journal to appreciate your overall growth and experience regarding ethics and health care management during the past 10 weeks.
Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio. Keep your journal handy to refer back to ideas and resources you have saved for use in your future courses and in your career.
Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)
Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.
Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 6 Assignment
Informational Interview Report
Your Informational Interview Report serves as a component of your Course Project Portfolio.
The interview you performed was described earlier as an informal conversation with a health care manager who is willing to share personal and professional expertise, knowledge, and perspective on ethical challenges. Your goal was to obtain an insider’s view on current ethical issues presented in the health care field and increase your understanding of how managers utilize ethical principles and strategic efforts to prevent and address them.
Now that your interview has been completed, you will share your experience, evaluations, and application to ethical concepts and principles.
Preparation
In addition to these instructions, utilize the following to complete your work.
Written work completed in your Unit 3 discussion, Preparing for Your Informational Interview Report.
Interview notes.
Informational Interview Report Scoring Guide.
Course study materials.
Course Reflection Journal entries.
Internet and Capella library research.
Informational Interview Report Template.
Assignment Components
To begin your paper, identify and describe the sector of the health care industry you have chosen to explore. Describe the organization, facility, or department chosen, its stated mission and goals, and provide context regarding the community or population it serves.
Introduce your interviewee. Briefly describe the background that brought this person to his or her current position. Explain the description and expectations of this person’s management role. Include information the professional shared regarding how personal moral values, membership in professional organizations, and continuing education guide and support personal efforts in ethical management practice.
Describe an ethical challenge experienced by your interviewee in his or her organization, facility, or department, and analyze the approach taken to resolve it. If there is not a detailed example of a problem available, base your work on measures taken to prevent a specific major ethical issue, and analyze why the current approach is successful.
Discuss and evaluate the information gathered regarding the ethical problem. Include the following:
Describe how formal policies, processes, teams, and individuals were utilized in addressing or proactively avoiding the ethical problem.
Identify and explain the influence and role of external regulatory policies, and regulations in addressing or preventing the ethical issue (such as Joint Commission, HIPAA, et cetera).
Describe how specific external forces influenced the resolution or prevention of the ethical issue.
Describe how internal organizational factors influenced the resolution of the ethical issue.
Identify and apply the ethical principles and theories related to the ethical issue and the management approach taken.
Conclude your paper by sharing personal insights gained from the informational interview experience. Identify tools, knowledge, skills, or awareness gained for use and success in your personal ethical management practice.
A template, available in the Resources, is provided to assist you in your success with this assignment.
BUS4121 Ethics in Health Care Management
Week 8 Assignment
Ethical Case Study Evaluation
For this assignment, you will evaluate a case study based on a hypothetical scenario involving health care management, patient care, and end-of-life considerations. You will utilize a formal decision-making process to evaluate this scenario based on the concepts and principles you have studied in this course and perhaps your own personal and career experiences.
Preparation
Read the Case Study Scenario (linked in the Resources) to complete this assignment.
Review the Ethical Case Study Evaluation Scoring Guide prior to beginning your work.
A template is provided in the Resources for this assignment.
Scenario and Challenges
Jenny Abrams, the health care administrator at Brookside Hospital, is faced with a serious managerial challenge in the Case Study Scenario:
Ms. Abrams must initially use excellent communication, investigative, critical thinking and decision-making skills to immediately assess and deal with the situation she is facing in her office when she arrives.
She will then need to investigate and evaluate the validity of the claims related to medical procedures performed and ethical behavior of staff to appropriately address them with the family and within her facility.
Finally, as an ethically minded manager and individual, Ms. Abrams must be sure that Brookside Hospital provides Mr. Nichols and his family the discharge and end-of-life support they require.
Imagine yourself in Ms. Abrams’s position, and work through the process outlined below.
Steps
For your evaluation of this case study, use tools and knowledge gained in your studies to gather and evaluate relevant facts, and recommend actions for Ms. Abrams to take to address the situation in an ethical manner.
Refer directly to Step 1: Gather the Facts, on pages 111–113 in the Ethics and Professionalism for Healthcare Managers text to perform and discuss the fact-gathering tasks for this section of the case study.
Clearly define the problem.
Determine whether the decision involves an ethical conflict.
Ascertain boundaries or ownership of the situation or problem.
Determine the internal and external stakeholders.
Identify the person who should be the decision maker.
Gather data.
Identify and list the ethical principles and the non-moral concerns of the situation or problem.
Identify several possible options.
Helpful Resources and Tips
Please refer to the BUS4121 Library Guide for valuable resource material on writing, referencing, and researching on the Internet and in the Capella library.
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