Unit Three- Ethics

Assignment Question What factors determine business ethics?

how a company treats employees how a company treats consumers whether a company obeys the law whether a company respects the community whether a company respects the environment

Assignment Question is people's ability to behave in a way that reflects the values they care about.

Integrity

Assignment Question Which of the following statements about ethics and the law are true?

Laws can help define ethical and unethical behaviors. Ethics are not the same as laws. Something can be both unethical and illegal.

The failure to perform adequately, according to professional standards and skills, that leads to injury or harm to a patient is known as

Malpractice

A company's are statements that help reflect a company's ethical behavior.

Mission and Vision

In health care, the patient is also the company's

customer

A young doctor has just joined a hospital's staff. The doctor has a telephone list, a schedule of work hours, and other important info. But he still needs to find out what the organization's responsibilities, goals, and ethical policies are. Where can the doctor find this information?

in the professional standards of care

Assignment Question Which of the following do you have to follow as a healthcare professional?

laws codes of ethics professional standards of care

What is ethics?

moral guidelines of a person or group that define whether behavior is good or bad

The unintentional disregard for providing adequate care to a patient is called .

negligence

Which of the following are financial issues a healthcare organization faces?

patients' ability to pay for care making money whether or not patients have health insurance

What is integrity?

people's ability to behave in a way that reflects the values they care about

Select all the issues that healthcare professionals face in medical research and at the end of a patient's life.

preserving patients' autonomy ensuring that research participants give their consent allowing patients to make decisions about life support using ethical guidance to proceed with end-of-life-care for a patient

Assignment Question What are professional standards of care?

rules or guidelines that healthcare professionals are expected to follow specific to their profession

define a company's behavior as ethical or unethical.

Business Ethics

Assignment Question What are codes of ethics?

Codes that outline how healthcare workers should do things in the workplace

of information means that personal health information will be kept private and secured.

Confidentially

Assignment Question Phoebe is a doctor whose patients are all relatively healthy. This poses a problem for Phoebe, since she really only makes money when her patients are sick. She wonders whether she should tell her last patient that he needs more treatment just to make sure she schedules more patient appointments next week.

Conflict of Interest

Assignment Question Zoe is a hospital employee who sits on the interview panel to help the hospital decide who to hire. Zoe's cousin is scheduled to have a job interview with the interview panel next month

Conflict of Interest

Assignment Question is when people behave in a good, moral, fair, and proper way.

Ethical Behavior

Assignment Question Chogan is a dentist who has a patient that always brings him a gift basket at every appointment. In return, the patient asks for special treatment, but Chogan always replies that he treats his patients fairly, so he does not accept the gifts.

Ethical Behavior

Assignment Question Itsuo is a doctor who is being pressured by a pharmaceutical company to write prescriptions for a new drug. However, Itsuo does not have any patients that would benefit from the drug so he does not write any prescriptions.

Ethical Behavior

Assignment Question are the moral guidelines of a person or group that define whether behavior is good or bad.

Ethics

In the business of health care, the of the patient is the primary goal.

Health

Assignment Question How are people's ethical rights protected during research?

People have to agree to participate in research. People cannot be tricked into participating in research. Expert groups oversee research studies to make sure the research is ethical.

Assignment Question How are business ethics related to a company's mission?

The company's mission reflects the company's ethical beliefs.

The industry that makes and sells medicine and medical devices is called .

The pharmaceutical industry

Assignment Question Francesca lies about the items a patient brought into the hospital at admission. She did not list a bracelet. The patient went home without noticing the bracelet was missing, and Francesca ended up keeping the bracelet herself.

Unethical Behavior

Assignment Question Harper works at a public health clinic that distributes some free healthcare products such as toothbrushes and bandages to community members who cannot otherwise afford them. Harper realizes that he needs a new toothbrush at home, and does not feel like spending money on one at the store so he takes a toothbrush from the donation box.

Unethical Behavior

Assignment Question Reuben is a doctor who gives better treatment and care to patients who bribe him with money. If a patient does not give Reuben extra pay, he does not spend as much time with the patient during the appointment.

Unethical Behavior

Assignment Question is when people behave in a bad, immoral, unfair, or inappropriate way.

Unethical Behavior

Assignment Question Why are there ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care?

because patients have the right to refuse end-of-life care because patients have the right to accept life support because sometimes patients cannot make decisions for themselves

When employees have a way to take unfair advantage of their position in a company for personal gain, it is considered:

conflict of interest