Discuss your most valuable learning experience related to this unit. (This might include facts, concepts, insights or ideas derived from the course content, outside research, your professor, your peers or professionals in the field.)

The most valuable learning experience I extracted from chapter 12 “Patient Issues and Ethics” of the text “Ethics in Health Administration” is that many reasons in the care facilities contribute to everyday ethical problems that if not solved contribute to ethical threats. Such ethical threats may result in moral injury or harm that leads to patients’ moral distress. Chapter 7 “Ethical Decision Making Process” further explores ethics education that emphasizes the importance of ethical competence learning and training in the care profession. This learning and training in various forms of ethics needed in the healthcare sector promote the ability to manage ethical conflicts and problems in a specific situation appropriately (Forrestal & Cellucci, 2016). Dealing with ethically problematic situations at the workplace in the care sector is primarily about what needs to be done that would be in patients’ best interests. No matter what sort of a problem a healthcare professional has regarding patient issues, ethics is the core value that should be monitored by regulatory agencies in the sector (Morrison, 2008).

Discuss an example(s) of knowledge, awareness, or skills you gained from this unit that might be applicable to your current or future career.

The biggest thing I learned is the importance of making the best ethical decisions that maintain moral integrity for making the best ethical decisions for the organization, providers, and patients. For my future career, I found it helpful that administrators and healthcare professionals must have provided ethics education about patients’ treatments so that they can be treated with quality care and provided with a better environment. I also learned that practical ethical wisdom along with ethics education is important to provide a fair balance and committed responsibility between patients and healthcare providers.

Discuss ideas, material, research, topics, etc., you did not have time to fully investigate but would like to revisit in the future. Consider storing your links in RefWorks for future access.

The ideas need to be researched more about our ethical justice and ethical gaps in the healthcare system. Moreover, I also need to learn about patient resources that can be used in difficult healthcare environments to fill the gaps created due to ethical issues. I understood that ethical problems in the everyday healthcare sector arise for many known or sometimes unknown reasons that pose serious threats to ethical values (Silva, 1998). Therefore, more research is needed to be done regarding ethics education and training in clinical practice that can be recognized and responded to appropriately.

Create a list of resources for future reference and use in your courses and/or career. This might include articles, authors, websites, professional organizations, research studies, publications, etc.

Internet Resources

• Death With Dignity. (n.d.). Death with dignity acts. Links to an external site. https://www.deathwithdignity.org/learn/death-with-dignity-acts/
• American College of Healthcare Executives. (2017). The healthcare executive’s role in ensuring quality and patient safety. Link to an external site. https://www.ache.org/about-ache/our-story/our-commitments/policy-statements/healthcare-executives-role-in-ensuring-quality-and-safety
• Planetree International. (n.d.). Planetree. Links to an external site. http://planetree.org/
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. (n.d.) NHPCO. Links to an external site. http://www.nhpco.org/
• National POLST Links to an external site.. (n.d.) http://www.polst.org/
• Aging With Dignity. (2021). Five Wishes. Links to an external site. https://www.agingwithdignity.org/five-wishes

Multimedia

• Listen to the interview with Apar Ganti in Voices of Integrity.
• Aging With Dignity. (2017, November 3). Tara’s Story [Video]. | Transcript YouTube. https://youtu.be/qL3vtg3l6ak
• Northern Training UK. (2011, June 18) Dementia: End of Life Care [Video]. | Transcript YouTube. https://youtu.be/3zKADdgcf14
• Frontline PBS. (2014. October 12). Dr. Atul Gawande on aging, dying, and “being mortal” [Video]. | Transcript YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkr09ZMI3w
• Frontline PBS. (2015, February 10). When should dying patients stop treatment? [Video]. | Transcript YouTube. https://youtu.be/HzIiqJ5HX2E
• The Kennedy Institute of Ethics. (2014, December 19). Introduction to bioethics: Bioethics at the end of life [Video]. | Transcript YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97M5Sxhiv7E&feature=youtube

References

Forrestal, E. J., & Cellucci, L. W. (2016). Ethics and professionalism for healthcare managers. (No Title).

Morrison, E. E. (2008). Ethics in health administration: A practical approach for decision makers. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Silva, M. C. (1998). Organizational and administrative ethics in health care: An ethics gap. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 3(3), 4.