PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This program is designed to review personal ethics and administrative ethical issues, and to suggest a methodology for solving the problems these issues raise. Philosophies, principles, and codes of ethics are reviewed, and ways of identifying and solving ethical dilemmas are explored. A brief discussion about developing a personal ethic, organizational and mission statements, and some administrative ethical issues is included.

The focus of this program is on the responsibility of Nursing Home Administrators to ensure autonomy, privacy, and protection of residents in their facility, as well as their role as a moral agent who leads the health service facility. This program is about integrity in business life. It is about values and the virtues that constitute integrity. It is about practicing ethical behavior because it is the right thing to do - not because a code of ethics says it must be done. (Please note: For ease of reading, patient is used to describe anyone served by the health services organization, and manager is mostly used when referring to the administrator or nurse manager).

Objectives:

At the completion of this program the participant should be able to:

1. Identify how values are usually shaped.
2. Briefly define Personal Ethic.
3. Describe how a health services organization can develop and implement a just policy.
4. Identify two important views that must be reflected in the philosophy of a facility.
5. Discuss briefly why ethical dilemmas may occur in a health care facility.
6. Briefly define ethics.
7. Discuss briefly the relationship between ethics and the law.
8. Explain briefly the main focus of the Utilitarian Teleology, Deontology, and Ethics of Care
9. Respect for Persons -- a principle of an ethical theory -- includes several components. Name the four.
10. Describe one aspect of beneficence.
11. Define Nonmaleficence.
12. Define Rawl's definition of justice.
13. Explain why Nursing Home Administrators should also be involved in bioethical issues.
14. List three steps of moral reasoning, which are similar to existing problem-solving methods used by managers.
15. State why it is important that all staff in a facility is fully familiar with its philosophy
16. Identify three important characteristics of a successful organization.
17. List three expectations listed in the Code for Nursing Home Administrators.
18. List three important rights listed in the residents' Bill of Rights in Long-Term care facilities.
19. Identify the most commonly reported administrative ethical problem in health services organizations.
20. Explain briefly why it is important to adopt policies related to acceptance or non-acceptance of gifts in the facility.

Provider Management Educational Services is a Certified Sponsor of professional continuing education with the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and has approved this program for the number of clock hours listed under their sponsor agreement with NAB/NCERS. State licensure boards, however, have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses.

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