Ethical Dilemmas In Healthcare
This is a very complex scenario. To prevent patient not be a victim from others, the healthcare organization must have some sort of policies and guidelines in place to protect the patient and privacy and confidentiality. According to Westrick (2014), the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 has expanded patients’ rights to confidentiality concerning protected health information held by any healthcare organization which includes physician, insurance companies, and or any entities. As we look at the actions of these doctors and the husband, they are unethical. If these doctors act according to the request of the patient’s husband, this action will compromise the patient right which may be considered as a violation. The role of a medical professional is to be the advocate to those who are in needs, to treat the patient according to their needs, and to protect but not to arm. All the medical professional should take into account the inherent rights of patients. Upon the school graduation, the doctors have taken the Hippocratic Oath in respecting the patient’s privacy and be the patient’s advocate. “The practice of
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medicine is an enterprise with enormous moral sensitivity, and few other professions have an oath that promulgates ethical standards for its members” Deren, 2014, p. 563). In this case, what would be done is to report the action of these doctors to the ethic comities to investigate this case for disciplinary action. Importantly, the social worker would also be informed to help the patient to find some types of guidance and legal help.
For the patient husband, they should stop him from coming to see the patient to prevent any interference between the patient’s care and his malicious thought.
This patient should be in contact to the nurse who works in the psychiatric unit, and any other nurses must be restricted to the patient health information. The psychiatric’ nurses are better trained and are better understood the legal aspect for patients with mental illness than any other nurse. “Psychiatric nurses, more often and more directly than nurses in other fields, have to deal with legal and complex ethical matters that require nurses’ advocacy for the protection of patients’ rights” (Toda, et al., 2015, p. 766). Therefore, for the nurse who works on the other unit and who is dating the patient’s husband should not be involved to prevent any conflict of
interest
medicine is an enterprise with enormous moral sensitivity, and few other professions have an oath that promulgates ethical standards for its members” Deren, 2014, p. 563). In this case, what would be done is to report the action of these doctors to the ethic comities to investigate this case for disciplinary action. Importantly, the social worker would also be informed to help the patient to find some types of guidance and legal help.
For the patient husband, they should stop him from coming to see the patient to prevent any interference between the patient’s care and his malicious thought.
This patient should be in contact to the nurse who works in the psychiatric unit, and any other nurses must be restricted to the patient health information. The psychiatric’ nurses are better trained and are better understood the legal aspect for patients with mental illness than any other nurse. “Psychiatric nurses, more often and more directly than nurses in other fields, have to deal with legal and complex ethical matters that require nurses’ advocacy for the protection of patients’ rights” (Toda, et al., 2015, p. 766). Therefore, for the nurse who works on the other unit and who is dating the patient’s husband should not be involved to prevent any conflict of
interest