REPORTING PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

REPORTING PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

Readings: Ethics for Health Professionals Chap 5, Ethics and the Workplace Learning Objectives: Be able to describe laws surrounding employment in healthcare; what to do if you are a victim of discrimination; how to find the code of ethics related to your profession; the medical practice acts; ethical issues surrounding the healthcare workplace; how to report an ethics violation; the progressive discipline technique. Activities:Read Chapter 5 and review Power Point Slides. Located the article, Workplace Bullying among Healthcare Workers, Montez, Antonio Ariza-Montes www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3774428/ See Assignment Tab for specific instruction. Students may continue to work with same group members or may request to be assigned to a new group. A student may be randomly added to a group at the instructor’s discretion. Group Assignment Question Read the Case Study: Reporting Professional Misconduct found on Page 99 of your Textbook. Your next written group assignment will have similar undertones ethical issues. You were just hired as the Senior Healthcare Administrator (Ethical Compliance Division) for the hospital. You have just put a team together from your office to discuss this issue. Your team will present a formalwritten report, prepared in the FIRAC format, to the Chief of Administration (your boss) to present to the Executive Board of Administration. See BB Assignment tab for more detail information regarding this scenario. Using the FIRAC format, discuss the ethical and legal principles you’ve learned from chapters 1 through 5 and other research materials, to present this report. Having used the Three STep Ethical Decision making model before, you are sure that this model will help to identify and advocate an ethical approach to the issues you identify and result in making ethical conclusions and recommendations. You must use a minimum of 6 authoritative resources, none of which include your textbook.