Ethics week 2 discussion
APA format, Peer review reference and citation
Section A) Patient dumping or turfing is a systemic problem in our healthcare system. Usually associated with hospitals or providers refusing to treat certain patients, this frequently results from inadequate insurance, complex diseases and diagnoses, complex mental health issues without bed space, or inadequate social safety nets for those not fully fit to care for themselves. Patient dumping can occur within diverse healthcare settings, including emergency departments and long-term care health or rehabilitation facilities.
Healthcare organizations are often under immense financial pressure and commonly operate on narrow margins. When a hospital closes in a community it can have widespread negative impacts for that community’s access to care and population health. While policies should be in place for proper discharge of patients, there have been numerous cases of inappropriate patient discharge that do not support patients’ rights or sound ethical decision making. This has resulted in stories that run in the media and, ultimately, devastating financial penalties for hospitals and high-risk negative outcomes for patients.
Section 2)
your 2-page op-ed piece to be published in a newspaper, to include the following:
- Define moral courage.
- Analyze the importance of a healthcare administrator to exhibit moral courage.
- Illustrate the effects of an administrator modeling ethical and legal behavior (or, on the contrary, unethical and illegal behavior) on others in an organization.
Note: Your op-ed piece must include a references section. For any in-text citations you use, you must list your sources in the references.