...Administrative Ethics Administrative ethics is essential to developing a rewarding compensation plan that produces strategies within a policy effectively to execute a plan successfully within an organization. An example of this is the Affirmative Action of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). In this paper the reading will discuss EEO and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and the impact it has on the population as a whole, it is meant to protect the general public, promote the common good when dealing with health care and review arguments used to support solutions as well as review ethical, and legal issues that need to be reported regarding administrative issues. I will also address managerial responsibilities related to administrative ethical issues as well as identify a proposed solution. The EEO according to the Unites States Department of Labor (2009) is an independent federal agency that was developed to promote equal opportunity within an organization through administrative and judicial enforcement of federal civil rights laws through technical assistance as well as education to the working public on how to utilize the program. EEO laws were also created to allow Human Resources (HR) professionals the ability to hire qualified staff members through the process of conducting in depth interviews of applicants before selecting the best qualified individual to fit the job requirements without discriminating any possible candidates that...
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...Jaiyash Autar HCS/320 Charlotte Hunter-Brown Health Care Communication Methods As a communications coordinator for a national drug manufacturer, today we need to address and discuss how we will deal with the negative effects that our medication are causing to the public. Also, a well-known public figure has felt the negative effects of our medication too. Today we will discuss on how to use traditional, electronic, and social media communication methods to address the general public and news reports. There are advantages and disadvantages of using these types of communication methods. There is one aspect we need to consider when using these communication methods. As a communications coordinator there is a concern on how the effects of HIPAA and other regulations will have on the use of these media for health care communication. Traditional forms of communication are face-to-face, newspaper, magazines. There are many advantages of using traditional forms of communication but these forms of communication also have disadvantages. First let’s look at communication through newspaper and magazines. Some of advantages of using newspapers and magazines are that the communication coordinator can be precise and explicit in discussing the issue. Using newspapers and magazines allow the readers to known that the drug manufacturer shows great concern about the negative effects of the medication on the public. There are disadvantages of using newspapers and magazines. One major disadvantage...
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...Introduction: No matter what industry the organization fits in, IT Compliance plays an essential role of operations. It will cover both internal policies, federal regulations ,ethical practices, standards. Privacy is Fundamental to good health care. The HIPAA privacy rule is essential to patient care and public health and safety. Its very important to protect against disclosure of sensitive health information. Its critical to recognize that the lack of health privacy can lead to Individual health care and endanger public health and safety. Additional mesasures could enhance the effectivenss of the HIPAA privacy rule. Before the privacy rule with effect in April 2003, the inadequate health professional and patient outreach , awareness have...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper When creating effective strategy and rewards compensation programs one must ensure that the policy established executes the plan well. The EEO or Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action laws give authorization for Human Resources representative to hire the best-qualified staff by selecting the finest candidates for interviews, and make a job offer without discriminating against any candidates. Affirmative Action assists in elevating discrimination among race, creed, religion, and sex. Based off the State of South Carolina (2009), “Affirmative action is an effort to create a logical approach to remove the current and lingering effects of prior discrimination. This is an ethnic and sex conscious effort to achieve equal employment opportunities for every person regardless of race and sex group in a workforce” (p.1). The United States Department of Labor (2009), reports “The Equal Employment Opportunity forbids specific kinds of job discrimination in certain workplaces. EEOC also known as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal organization that promotes equal opportunity jobs through administrative and at times judicial enforcement of civil rights laws and technical help. The EEOC division helps protect applicants and some employees of private employers to include state and local governments, education institutions, and labor organizations (p 2.). The HR Guide, (2009) references Disparate Treatment in...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper By William Keyser HCS/335 4-26-11 Susan Morgan When developing an effective strategy and rewards compensation plan one must produce a policy that executes the plan successfully. The Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws allows the human resources professionals to hire the high qualified staff by selecting the right candidates for interviews, and giving the best job offers without discriminating against any candidates. Affirmative Action prevents discrimination among race, creed, religion, and sex. According to State of South Carolina (2009), “Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to eliminate the current and lingering effects of prior discrimination. It is a race and sex conscious effort to achieve equal employment opportunity for all race sex groups in a workforce. Then with the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) it prohibits specific types of job discrimination in certain workplaces, and they are a independent federal...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Shannon Carpenter HCS/335 February 16, 2015 Administrative Ethics Paper When developing an effective strategy and rewards compensation plan one must produce a policy that executes the plan successfully. The Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws allows the human resources professionals to hire the high qualified staff by selecting the right candidates for interviews, and giving the best job offers without discriminating against any candidates. Affirmative Action prevents discrimination among race, creed, religion, and sex. According to State of South Carolina (2009), “Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to eliminate the current and lingering effects of prior discrimination. It is a race and sex conscious effort to achieve equal employment opportunity for all race sex groups in a workforce” (p. 1). According to the United States Department of Labor (2009), “The Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) prohibits specific types of job discrimination in certain workplaces. EEOC is an independent federal agency that promotes equal opportunity in employment through administrative and judicial enforcement of the federal civil rights laws and through education and technical assistance. EEOC protects applicants and employees of many private employers, state and local governments, educational institutions, employment agencies, and labor organizations...
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...communication with providers. EMR helps provide information quicker and making access to information more accessible. There are some issues with privacy, such as HIPAA privacy, but it is becoming fixed rapidly. EMR opens up opportunity for social networking and media opportunities. The EMR markets health care and the services available with broader audiences. In this paper these topics will be discussed. “Patient doctor communication (PDC) is most powerful, encompassing, and versatile instruments available to the physician” (Shachak & Reis, n.p. 2009). The benefits offer to the patient is helping to share better understanding between patients and the doctors. The EMR had “positive influence on exchange of medical information” (Shachak & Reis, n.p. 2009). EMR helps patients to feel confident in asking questions and feeling there was accomplishments at the end of his or her appointment. The patients can login online with his or her provider and have communications with the clinic. For example, make appointments, see health history, current medications, and ask questions. EMRs are beneficial to patients. One aspect relating to values and importance of maintaining patient confidentiality when using EMR communication is the aspect of confidentiality for EMR. In regard to Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA), the privacy issues are there. An example would be “A psychiatrist from New Hampshire was fined $1,000 for repeatedly looking at the medical records of an...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Alyssa Jane Marie Cunningham HCS/335 January 16, 2011 Sonja Allen Administrative Ethics Paper When developing an effective strategy and rewards compensation plan one must produce a policy that executes the plan successfully. The Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws allows the human resources professionals to hire the high qualified staff by selecting the right candidates for interviews, and giving the best job offers without discriminating against any candidates. Affirmative Action prevents discrimination among race, creed, religion, and sex. According to State of South Carolina (2009), “Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to eliminate the current and lingering effects of prior discrimination. It is a race and sex conscious effort to achieve equal employment opportunity for all race sex groups in a workforce” (p. 1). According to the United States Department of Labor (2009), “The Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) prohibits specific types of job discrimination in certain workplaces. EEOC is an independent federal agency that promotes equal opportunity in employment through administrative and judicial enforcement of the federal civil rights laws and through education and technical assistance. EEOC protects applicants and employees of many private employers, state and local governments, educational institutions, employment agencies...
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...Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “HIPAA” Cheryl Pierce Murray State University HCA405 November 19, 2014 When you walk into a doctor’s office or other medical facility, you have the assumption and expectation that things discussed between you and your healthcare provider will remain confidential. You might even sign papers that contain information about how you wish for your information to be disclosed. What you might not know is that this is a result of a large and broad federal law that hasn’t always been present. In the past, patients were unable to have a clear understanding of what can and cannot be discussed after consultation with medical professionals. This led to withholding important information, which could hinder their treatment and recovery. Medical records were not always kept confidential prior to HIPAA being enacted and enforced, and with the rules now in place, patients now have an understanding that their health information will remain private. American society places a high value on individual rights, personal choice, and a private sphere protected from intrusion. Medical records can include some of the most intimate details about a person’s life. They document a patient’s physical and mental health, and can include information on social behaviors, personal relationships, and financial status (Gostin and Hodge, 2002). The shift of medical records from paper to electronic formats has increased the potential for individuals to access...
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...Communication Coordinator Tonya Krchelich HCS/320 August 25, 2014 Sandra Anderson Communication Coordinator A communication coordinator is responsible for connecting a company or business to the media. Responsibilities include building media lists, planning events, and creating press material to determine the success of a campaign. Communication coordinators may use traditional, electronic or social media communication methods to address the public. In the scenario given, a well-known public figure has been affected by a medication. We will examine advantages and disadvantages of using these forms of communication. This paper will, also, look at the effects of HIPAA regarding these communication methods. One of the worst things that can happen to a drug manufacturer, is that a well-known public figure is negatively affected by one of its medications. What happens next can determine the success of the manufacturer. Forms of communication, such as, social media can quickly get the word out to many consumers about the negative effects of the drug. Social media includes outlets, such as, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. According to ECRI Institute, a study that was done in February of 2011 by the National Research Corporation showed, “that 41% of 23,000 respondents used social media to research healthcare decisions, almost 94% said that Facebook was their primary source, followed by YouTube at 32%,” (Health care risk control, 2011). This is because many people...
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...advantages would be that each person gets to see one another which makes it easier to read their body language and understand better what might be occurring. Another advantage would be the personal relationship that can be built between the people who are communicating. Disadvantages would include not being able to speak what is on ones mind to the person when looking at them. Another would be not being very good at confronting someone who may be of higher authority than them. Next type is the telephone, which has the advantage of still allowing the person to voice what they have to say and be able to adjust their tone when needed. Disadvantage would be that the phone could cut out or there is the mis communication that could occur due to misunderstanding the tone of the statement. Advantage of team meeting is it allows for colleagues to be able to get together in room and converse over the situation at hand. Disadvantage would be that not all members are able to physically be in the same room so they have to use intercom to include them. The last type of...
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...Communication Barriers at Duke Medical Center Introduction: Effective communication requires messages to be conveyed clearly to the appropriate parties, but along the way there are many communication barriers that can create misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the intended message (Burns et al., 2012). Such misunderstandings and misinterpretations are apparent in the case of Jesica Santillon. This case study will identify the social and cultural barriers that may have made it difficult for the doctors to communicate with Jessica’s family. This case study will also offer recommendations on modification of the transplant process to ensure that misunderstandings are eliminated or minimized; and lastly it will propose some general communication strategies to manage communication with each group involved in this tragic case. Communication Barriers There may have been many communication barriers that hindered the doctors from effectively communicating with Jesica’s family. We will discuss some social and cultural communication barriers between the physicians and Jesica’s family: The language differences may have been a leading obstacle to effective communication between the physicians and the family, The family recently migrated to the United States seeking treatment for Jesica's condition and were not fluent in the English language. Health literacy may have also induced the communication barrier between the physicians and...
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...HLAD 5337-VC01 Health Care Law Fall 2015 Professor: Dr. Lloyd L. Cannedy, Ph.D. Book Review of “The Immortal Life of Henriettta Lack” Student: Abraham S Lincoln “Henrietta Lacks, a young black mother of five children, entered the colored ward of The Johns Hopkins Hospital to begin treatment for an extremely aggressive strain of cervical cancer. As she lay on the operating table, a sample of her cancerous cervical tissue was taken without her knowledge or consent and given to Dr. George Gey, the head of tissue research. Gey was conducting experiments in an attempt to create an immortal line of human cells that could be used in medical research. Those cells, he hoped, would allow scientists to unlock the mysteries of cancer, and eventually lead to a cure for the disease. Until this point, all of Gey’s attempts to grow a human cell line had ended in failure, but Henrietta’s cells were different; they never died.” (USF 2013-14 Common Reader, The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Pg1) The cells, called HeLa, became one of the most important tools in medical research, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Less than a year after her initial diagnosis, Henrietta’s cancer was too much for her to bare, and the cancer took over her body. Because of her poverty she was buried in an unmarked grave on her family’s land. She was only thirty-one years old. Her family never knew, at that time that a portion small piece of Henrietta was still living...
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...illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and Dementia that would possibly need care in a nursing home. As an Administrator of a Nursing Home you could be confronted with many diverse situations and because patients in a nursing home are occasionally incapable of understanding or communicating on their own, it is vital to have interaction with quite a few family members in case of an emergency. Relatives of these elderly patients still have lives of their own and may live in different states or countries and in some cases,you have some patients in Nursing Homes who do not have family members at all. Most of the time there will be a social worker who is responsible for the wellbeing of these patients in this type of situation. There is an enormous misunderstanding of the role of communication services in healthcare. Nursing home administrators act as the patient's liaison between staff and doctors, in the event that a Nursing Home receives notification that the organization is being purchased by a national group, and because of new policies to be implemented, many of the patients will be displaced, it is important to know the way to communicate with each individuals family members. Residents have rights and these rights being violated can cause serious issues with the law. Below is a short list of patients’ rights when concerning unfair transfer or discharge. Protection against Unfair Transfer or Discharge: It is necessary for the welfare,...
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...Effective Communication Paper HCS/325 September 2014 Effective Communication Paper Effective communication is an important and essential tool needed in health care organizations. Effective communication influences an organization success in a variety of positive ways. Keeping the organization employees informed about changes being made, knowledge gained, and successes achieved are an essential way of providing effective communication. Communication also provides the opportunity for questions they may have, employees need to feel that they matter to such organization they are employed by and need to feel the cohesiveness of not only their teams but from the whole organization, which promotes effective communication and unity within such teams of the organization. There is a variety of communication methods in order for the health care organization can communicate effectively internally and externally as well. The organizational model that best describes the organization I am employed by would be the hierarchical structured model. The organization is carefully blueprinted into functional departments, which are managed from the top of the hierarchy chief executive through a variety of structures, regulations, job description, rules and policies. This model seems to work efficiently, but room for improvement is always a possibility. The organization is compromised of several department heads and lower level employees who job duties are performed based on job descriptions....
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