Ethical Issues In Healthcare

From a leader’s perspective, every individual will be held accountable for the role he/she played in covering up these issues. Deliberate deception in the workplace includes misrepresenting services that were not received, the act of covering up information that you know is untrue, collaborating with a co-worker, physicians, other healthcare providers/specialist, management, and staff to deliberate cause deception to any patient or another individual is unethical. Disregard to company’s policies and procedures is also a high concern from a leadership perspective. To disregard company policy is unethical because it has the possible damage/harm to the company and other workers, All company policy should be kept at the highest of standards and …show more content…
Discuss the ethical issue of having 1,700 veterans, who were not listed on the EWL, wait for a primary care appointment at the Phoenix VA. The ethical problems that surround the 1,700 veterans that were not listed on the EWL, waiting for medical care at Phoenix VA healthcare system are these individuals/veterans were listed as receiving some medical treatment such as emergency room care, walk-in clinics, or seen at mental health clinics. However, this is an ethical concern due to the fact that many leaders/executives were hiding and documenting this data as accurate and true information. According to ACHE (2016), code of ethics to patients or others served it states. “The healthcare executive’s responsibilities to patients or others served is to (1) work to ensure the existence of a process to evaluate the quality of care or service rendered.” (2) “work to ensure the existence of a process that will advise patients or others served of the rights, opportunities, responsibilities, and risks regarding available healthcare services,” which was not done by the healthcare …show more content…
Part of the problem is that some individuals are just straight up dishonesty people that sometime come from the top-down corruption. One alternative option Secretary Shinseki could have taken to resolve the unethical decision-making practices was to hold all VA hospital leaders/executives accountable for untruthfully communicating information they knew to be false, damaging, and unethical. In addition Secretary Shinseki could have openly discuss his findings, concerns, and issues with President Obama, and other top officials, about what was genuinely happing with veterans and their long waiting time for medical treatment. Caused by an outdated technology system, lack of funds, widespread of mistrust and inaccurate information he was receiving from the people he trusted to do specific jobs, and the poor leadership at the VA hospitals. Another option Secretary Eric

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