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Explain the statement, “What may be an ethical dilemma for one registered nurse may not be an ethical dilemma for another registered nurse.” Be sure to define an ethical dilemma in the course of your discussion. Describe a challenging situation in your nursing career that required you to consider the ethical dimensions of the patient case and the role you played in providing care. (Be sure to respect and maintain patient and colleague confidentiality.)
The role of the health care professional includes being a moral agent or a person whose actions affect themselves and others at a moral level. It is important to have a personal ethic or moral framework in which you ground your practice and professional relationships. The purpose of this assignment is to explore and create a foundation for leadership and ethics in your professional practice.
Write a reflection on the nature, sources, and implications of your values, beliefs, and ethical perspectives that guide your personal life and nursing practice. Please note, grading is based on the clarity and depth of your writing and the apparent effort given the assignment, not on the rightness or wrongness of your position. You are encouraged to be honest in your self-assessments and conclusions.
The employee benefits staff at auto parts manufacturer Simpson Automotive is preparing estimates of the costs of health plans that will be offered soon. Most options will be substantially more expensive because employees and family members received health care. The higher priced options include the fee-for-service plan, the HMO, and the PPO plans. Only the price of the high-deductible plan will remain the same.
The team of employee benefits analysts completed their evaluation in time for meeting with Yufei Wang, director of Human Resources, to discuss pricing. Lead analyst Nolan Hedrick announced that the total insurance costs will be 15 percent higher next year. He went on to explain that the cost estimate assumes that employees will remain in their current plans. Finally, Nolan indicated that 90 percent of employees are enrolled in the costly fee-for-service, HMO, and PPO plans because out-of-pocket costs are much lower than for the high-deductible plan.
Yufei anxiously replied, saying that the employee benefits budget for next year will be cut by 10 percent and, consequently, the higher health insurance costs are unsustainable. Nolan indicated that the best possible prices were negotiated with the insurance companies, but high employee utilization led to higher prices. Yufei pondered the cost concerns and came up with a solution: Encourage employees to switch to the high-deductible plan in exchange for a $1,000 bonus and those who do not will forfeit receiving a bonus and cost-of-living pay increase, the first offered after a five-year pay freeze.
Question:
1. Why do most employees prefer the HMO or PPO over a High Deductible plan? Are there some employees that may prefer the High Deductible (if so, what characteristics define those employees)?
2. Do you think Yufei’s plan is an ethical thing to do? Why or why not? Consider both the employer’s and employee’s perspectives.
3. What other options would you recommend Yufei consider that could help lower the overall employee benefits budget despite increasing costs for the health care plans?
This assignment will give you the opportunity to choose an article and then write about the ethical implications and the impact of the events that are described. Read and reflect on ONE of the following articles.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/google-code-of-ethics-on-military-contracts-could-hinder-pentagon-work
Can Ad Copy Be False but Not Misleading? If So, Is That OK?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/household-finances/article-menu-science-the-subtle-ways-restaurant-get-you-to-spend-more/?cmpid=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=PM2018
Write a paper in which you:
Analyze the following questions associated with your chosen article and discuss them using concepts you learned in this course.
What ideals, effects, and consequences are at stake?
Have any moral rights been violated?
What would a Utilitarian recommend?
What would a Kantian recommend?
Explain your rationale for each of your answers to your chosen article with supporting evidence.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Determine the considerations for and process of ethical business decision making to balance corporate and social responsibilities and address moral, economic, and legal concerns.
Analyze selected business situations using the predominant ethical theories, such as utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to guide ethical business decision making.
Determine the implications and impact of various civil liberty laws in the workplace, such as hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, and wage discrimination.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics.
Of the four commonly held rationalizations for unethical behavior proposed by Saul Gellerman, which one do you thing gets used most often? Why?
Write a three page essay on one topic of workplace ethics:
Fair hiring practices
Diversity in the workplace
Workplace compensation
Honesty in advertising
Whistleblowing
Conflict of interest policies
Workplace safety
Unions in the workplace
http://bok.ahima.org/PdfView?oid=107043
Sammy Jo obtained her RHIA 15 years ago and let her certification lapse four years ago. She is applying for a teaching position at the local community college and the position requires an active RHIA or RHIT credential. She completes the application and indicates she is an RHIA, because she is going to start the recertification process.
Identify the case study topic.
Summarize the steps required to become recertified.
Identify whether Sammy Jo violated any AHIMA Code of Ethics. Explain your reasoning.
Identify whether Sammy Jo violated any employment law violations. Explain your reasoning.
Discuss the residual value of the leased asset. How does it impact the PV of rental payments computation of the Lessee and the rental payments computation by Lessor.
Nurse leaders and managers are responsible for the unit’s ethical and legal decisions.
Initial Post
Consider the examples provided below and describe how you would handle the experiences.
A manager is not granting pay to someone who worked overtime.
A nurse manager tolerating verbal abuse of another nurse.
Constantly short staffing the unit when there is high census.
A nurse not providing all of the patients information during shift report.
Favoring one staff over others.
Making a hiring or firing decision based on friendship.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2018/09/24/nostrum/?sh=2cd533374fb1
What may be legally permitted is not necessarily ethical. What are your concerns from an ethical standpoint about the pricing of prescription drugs and the new therapies based on precision medicine discoveries such as the gene therapy described in the first article?
Pharmaceutical companies must make a profit to stay in business, be accountable to their investors, and be able to continue developing new medications. Imagine you are responsible for drug pricing for a pharmaceutical company. The CEO has tasked you with setting a price for a newly developed drug that is profitable for the company and shareholders based on the time and resources that were used for production. If you turn a profit, you will receive a bonus as well. How would you handle the price setting in this situation? Use the resources to justify your decision.