Ethics In Health Care Practice

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Ethics in Healthcare

Grand Canyon University HLT 610

February 28, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Article summary

According to Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith about quarter of the population of the US lives in areas that they feel is rural. It can be changeling in rural areas to provide health care due to limited access to health care providers. Since patients that lives in rural areas health is poor than someone that may stay in an urban area, so academic centers and rural non-for-profit hospitals decided to come together and create Rural Cancer Outreach Program. The program was created to give state if the art care to the rural areas, just as if they lived in an urban area. Since the program started in 1988 it has grown to five programs that functions at five rural hospitals. Comment by Dr. J: Punctuation-comma Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual section 6 for correct format and how to cite in text. Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual section 4 for correct format of first time use of abbreviation in text. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word choice ‘challenging’ Comment by Dr. J: Cite source-failure to cite in text and the reference list may suggest plagiarism. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word choice, wordiness; cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word choice; suggest ‘of’ Comment by Dr. J: Avoid extra spacing; consider use of headings; see APA manual section 3 for correct format. Comment by Dr. J: Punctuation-comma Comment by Dr. J: Cite source.

The program could employee and maintains good physicians to help provide the care that is needed in rural areas. Even though there are nothing but good things that this program has done, there are also still some issues at hand that the article talks about. The main issues are providing care at a high quality and affordable cost. You can also include justice to the list due to healthcare not be given based from what patients’ needs than what it cost. “Medical care and healthcare delivery has become more complex given the increasing number of intertwined ethical issues.” (Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith, 2001). Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word choices Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Avoid extra space; consider revising to avoid use of personal pronouns and personalization Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word choices Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual section 6 for correct format and how to cite a direct quote in text.

Justice issues Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual section 3 for correct format of heading.

Discussing more about justice issues within healthcare, is that by not providing quality and affordable healthcare for rural patients, you are discriminating against them because statistics show that rural people health is bad due to the distance and cost to get to the near urban area to get the care that they deserve. “This problem escalates when more independent community hospitals reach a point of closing their door because of lack of funds. Inequitable distribution of medical services makes elderly and poor people with no access to transportation receive minimal or no healthcare at all”. (Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith, 2001). Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-sentence structure, wordiness, word choice, and omission. Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Possessive form Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual sections 4 & 6 for correct format and how to cite a direct quote in text.

People in rural areas are sometimes scared to even go to the urban areas to receive the healthcare that they deserve. By this being known the RCOP also helps them become comfortable by delivering healthcare within their area for patients that has been diagnose with cancer. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual section 4 for correct format of first time use of abbreviation in text. Comment by Dr. J: Verb tense Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Consider adding to previous paragraph or another complete sentence to form a complete paragraph.

Competency of medical care

There are number of issues with competency of medical care and they are: providing specialty care, because there are not that many primary care providers and either no specialist, it is hard for them to receive they care that they need. Rural patients would have to drive three to four hours away to a large medical facility that can provide the care they need and they do not or want to do that so it makes healthcare professionals has to give care that is out of their expertise and no supervision to make sure that they are giving proper information out to the rural patients. So, the rural hospitals would always have low quality, while urban hospitals would have high quality. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word omission Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning; cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning- sentence structure, run-on sentences, sentence fragment, and wordiness; cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Avoid extra space.

Patient information is handled and communicated contains huge volumes that can come from different sites, which can cause problems. The information can be important for healthcare professionals due that the systems can store notes, lab work, to scans. To make sure that the systems are working quality assessments (QA) is being done to make sure critical information is not lost. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning;cite source Comment by Dr. J: Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-word choice; cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source.

 

 

Privacy and confidentiality

By patients and healthcare professionals live and work in rural areas, it gives them a closer relationship with each other. The patients would be more open with the healthcare professionals that live within the rural areas because they would feel that they know what they must go through to get quality and affordable healthcare. That could create an issue with respect, confidentially, and patient privacy. Comment by Dr. J: Verb tense Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source.

“There have been several cases where patients have refused to be treated in the rural oncology clinics because of the fear of their privacy being jeopardized”. (Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith, 2001). Communicating with other offices by talking on the phone, faxing, or even email (internet) which is not safe and secure. They feel that way because this clinic is only for patients with oncologic or hematologic problems and that the other patient may hear their results from their test. “In addition, chemotherapy is given to patients in one big room, and on one day, they are likely to find themselves sitting next to a distant cousin, the local florist, or a neighbor.” (Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith, 2001). Additional scenarios that healthcare professionals may treat people they know and it can cause the patients to be very uncomfortable/embarrassing to have them know their personal medical business. Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual sections 4 & 6 for correct format and how to cite a direct quote and Latin abbreviation of multiple authors in parenthetical text. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning-sentence structure-cite source. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising to avoid use of pronouns and confusion. Comment by Dr. J: Plural form Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising for clarity of meaning- word choice. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source.

Institutional ethics committees

Due to the numerous ethical issues within healthcare for rural areas, there are committees that are being created to make sure that all ethical issues are being addressed and developing goals and policies within the hospitals. “The development of such committees has been described as occurring in three stages: emergence of a local expert, educating the ethics committee and developing a body of knowledge, and expansion of the ethics activity into policy development and consultation.” (Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith, 2001). Comment by Dr. J: Cite source.

As a practitioner, the standards of practice are relatively applicable in my area of practice because they define the ethical issues surrounding the job as well as the dos and don’ts that every health practitioner should adhere to. This will ensure that the issues discussed above are implemented in the medical facilities. Comment by Dr. J: Consider revising to avoid use of gender specific pronouns. Comment by Dr. J: Cite source.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Lyckholm, Hackney, and Smith. Ethics of Rural Health Care Critical. Reviews in Oncology/Hematology (2001). Retrieved from https://www-sciencedirect-com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S1040842801001391?via%3Dihub Comment by Dr. J: See APA manual sections 7 & 8 for correct format of the reference page and how to cite in the reference list. Remove hyperlinks. Consider use of at least three scholarly sources as supportive evidence.

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