What Are The Legal And Ethical Concepts In Health Care
Final Project Outline and Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
I would like to discuss the ethical and legal concepts, including specific federal regulations, required of health care organizations to ensure delivery of high-quality health care that protects patient’s safety. The main reason that motivated me to select this topic is because I feel the urge to discuss the legal and ethical concepts of health care sectors so as to enlighten the people who are unfamiliar with such concepts. Moreover, there are many guidelines and federal regulations that a significant number of people and families need to know in order to be able to safeguard their care and safety. It is necessary for people to be aware of fundamental ethical and legal practices …show more content…
to ensure delivery of high quality health care services.
Outline
I. Introduction
A. Thesis: Health care changes or reforms have significant legal and ethical concepts in health care sector, which include government regulations, and policies that ensure patients are given quality health care.
II.
Body paragraph one: Legal and ethical practices.
A. Offering quality care services to patients and avoiding harm are the main pillars of practicing ethical concepts.
1. Description: Healthcare practitioners want to focus on doing the correct thing and try to offer quality health care services to patients while abiding by ethical concepts.
2. So what? To ensure that high quality health care services is given and that ethical concepts are well understood and practiced, it demands healthcare practitioners to make use of many changes occurring in healthcare sectors and respond to them as a usual routine of work.
III. Body Paragraph two: Federal policies needed by health practitioners.
A. States, Federal, and regulatory agencies always make regulations and policies for health care sectors, and their oversight is a must.
1. Description: there are several regulations and policies that healthcare practitioners must abide by in order to ensure they align with ethical concepts
2. So what? Rules regulations play a significant role in the health care sector.
3. Body Paragraph three: and
IV. Healthcare organizations have the responsibility to ensure they deliver good quality care services in order to protect patient's …show more content…
safety.
A. Safety of patients must be an attribute of the health care system. Patient safety finds high reliability while in situations of risk. Diseases portray the first condition of risk in health care.
1. Description: Delivering good quality care and safety should be the priority for all healthcare organizations. It is the main responsibility of the healthcare system to make sure all patients are safe.
2. So what? Patient's safety is good and essential for all healthcare organizations. It is the right of patients to get good quality care and avoid any medical errors.
V. Conclusion
A. This paper has effectively discussed Federal regulations and their effects on both health care practitioners and health care system. All health practitioners need to abide by ethical and legal concepts at all time.
Annotated Bibliography
Anderson, A. (2014). The impact of the Affordable Care Act on the health care workforce. Backgrounder, (2887). Retrieved from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/the-impact-of-the-affordable-care-act-on-the-health-care-workforce
Healthcare employees are dealing with a large amount of stress and stability as the Affordable Care Act that has made a way to amend the industry. It overburdens healthcare employees and experts, raised dissatisfaction, loss of healthcare provider and turnout. These factors impact the providence of quality health services. Healthcare employees are concerned about Affordable Care Act's effects on their work, and most of them think about changing their career choices.
The Affordable Care Act can add stress to health organizations, employees as well as the system. The challenges can emerge from the complexity of implementing the law and ensuring it meets new legal requirement while fulfilling experts duties and expectations for quality performance in offering good patients healthcare. The Affordable Care Act provides the regulations of an existing and overregulated sector. A lot of paperwork required will diminish the time spent with the patients thus raising the cost of providing health care. This article describes how the Affordable Care Act impacts the provision of quality health care and health care employees. It also examines the type of health care rule and significant concerns that emerge from health care rules.
This is important to my paper as it explains the federal regulations and problems involving healthcare employees and the provision of quality healthcare.
Ballard, K. A. (2003). Patient safety: A shared responsibility. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 8(3), 4.Vol. 8 No. 3, Manuscript 4. Available:www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/T ableofContents/ Volume82003/No3Sept2003/PatientSafety.aspx
This article discusses in depth all the participants who are involved in ensuring patients safety. It discusses how different health care employees in the healthcare sector impact patient's safety. There are various stakeholders who are responsible for making sure that patients care are safe and no harm occurs to them. The roles and actions taken by the stakeholders and health care employees dealing with patient safety are outlined in this article.
This article is useful to my paper because as it discusses in depth how distinct stakeholders are responsible for promoting patients health care and safe delivery.
Field, R. I. (2008). Why is health care regulation so complex?. Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 33(10), 607. 33(10): 607–608.
Federal regulations that regulate health care and how they affect the health care sector are explained in this article. It also explains the rules that are kept in place and how they affect the stakeholders in the health care sector and health practitioners. Federal rules and regulations seem to be changing, and it is significant for healthcare practitioners to be updated with the recent regulation that is in use. This can make health care employees to be overwhelmed.
This article is useful for my paper because it shows how federal regulations are often changing and how they affect the health care practitioners who are the main area of my discussion.
Mitchell, P. H. (2008). Defining patient safety and quality care. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2681/.
This book presents key definitions that connect patient's safety with health care quality. It demonstrates how nurses are on the forefront trying to advance the quality of health care via patients safety techniques and interventions. Also, this book demonstrates how health practitioners abide with ethical concepts in order to provide the best healthcare services. Moreover, this book highlights steps to take whenever a problem arises in order to ensure no harm will occur to patients.
Therefore, this book can be utilized in writing my paper by presenting how the duties of nurses and healthcare practitioners are done to deliver quality healthcare services.
Vitalari, N. A Prospective Anaysis of the Future of the US Healthcare Industry. Center of Digital Transformation White Paper Series, UC Irvine. Retrieved from http://merage.uci.edu/ResearchAndCenters/CDT/Resources/Documents/ N%20vitalri%20A%20Prosepective%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Healthcare%20Indust
ry.pdf
This resource gives a comprehensive analysis of structural developments in the healthcare sector. This paper focuses on the present state of the healthcare industry in the United States and the challenges facing the industry. It also goes further to describe The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Moreover, the paper goes into deeper insight on the future of the health care industry and the delivery of safety and care to all patients. Further, it is in this paper that issues and requirements that healthcare practitioners have to follow in order to deliver good quality healthcare and patient's safety are described. Precisely, this resource offers in-depth analysis on the healthcare industry and quality of healthcare in all health-related organizations.
Introduction
I would like to discuss the ethical and legal concepts, including specific federal regulations, required of health care organizations to ensure delivery of high-quality health care that protects patient’s safety. The main reason that motivated me to select this topic is because I feel the urge to discuss the legal and ethical concepts of health care sectors so as to enlighten the people who are unfamiliar with such concepts. Moreover, there are many guidelines and federal regulations that a significant number of people and families need to know in order to be able to safeguard their care and safety. It is necessary for people to be aware of fundamental ethical and legal practices …show more content…
to ensure delivery of high quality health care services.
Outline
I. Introduction
A. Thesis: Health care changes or reforms have significant legal and ethical concepts in health care sector, which include government regulations, and policies that ensure patients are given quality health care.
II.
Body paragraph one: Legal and ethical practices.
A. Offering quality care services to patients and avoiding harm are the main pillars of practicing ethical concepts.
1. Description: Healthcare practitioners want to focus on doing the correct thing and try to offer quality health care services to patients while abiding by ethical concepts.
2. So what? To ensure that high quality health care services is given and that ethical concepts are well understood and practiced, it demands healthcare practitioners to make use of many changes occurring in healthcare sectors and respond to them as a usual routine of work.
III. Body Paragraph two: Federal policies needed by health practitioners.
A. States, Federal, and regulatory agencies always make regulations and policies for health care sectors, and their oversight is a must.
1. Description: there are several regulations and policies that healthcare practitioners must abide by in order to ensure they align with ethical concepts
2. So what? Rules regulations play a significant role in the health care sector.
3. Body Paragraph three: and
IV. Healthcare organizations have the responsibility to ensure they deliver good quality care services in order to protect patient's …show more content…
safety.
A. Safety of patients must be an attribute of the health care system. Patient safety finds high reliability while in situations of risk. Diseases portray the first condition of risk in health care.
1. Description: Delivering good quality care and safety should be the priority for all healthcare organizations. It is the main responsibility of the healthcare system to make sure all patients are safe.
2. So what? Patient's safety is good and essential for all healthcare organizations. It is the right of patients to get good quality care and avoid any medical errors.
V. Conclusion
A. This paper has effectively discussed Federal regulations and their effects on both health care practitioners and health care system. All health practitioners need to abide by ethical and legal concepts at all time.
Annotated Bibliography
Anderson, A. (2014). The impact of the Affordable Care Act on the health care workforce. Backgrounder, (2887). Retrieved from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/the-impact-of-the-affordable-care-act-on-the-health-care-workforce
Healthcare employees are dealing with a large amount of stress and stability as the Affordable Care Act that has made a way to amend the industry. It overburdens healthcare employees and experts, raised dissatisfaction, loss of healthcare provider and turnout. These factors impact the providence of quality health services. Healthcare employees are concerned about Affordable Care Act's effects on their work, and most of them think about changing their career choices.
The Affordable Care Act can add stress to health organizations, employees as well as the system. The challenges can emerge from the complexity of implementing the law and ensuring it meets new legal requirement while fulfilling experts duties and expectations for quality performance in offering good patients healthcare. The Affordable Care Act provides the regulations of an existing and overregulated sector. A lot of paperwork required will diminish the time spent with the patients thus raising the cost of providing health care. This article describes how the Affordable Care Act impacts the provision of quality health care and health care employees. It also examines the type of health care rule and significant concerns that emerge from health care rules.
This is important to my paper as it explains the federal regulations and problems involving healthcare employees and the provision of quality healthcare.
Ballard, K. A. (2003). Patient safety: A shared responsibility. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 8(3), 4.Vol. 8 No. 3, Manuscript 4. Available:www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/T ableofContents/ Volume82003/No3Sept2003/PatientSafety.aspx
This article discusses in depth all the participants who are involved in ensuring patients safety. It discusses how different health care employees in the healthcare sector impact patient's safety. There are various stakeholders who are responsible for making sure that patients care are safe and no harm occurs to them. The roles and actions taken by the stakeholders and health care employees dealing with patient safety are outlined in this article.
This article is useful to my paper because as it discusses in depth how distinct stakeholders are responsible for promoting patients health care and safe delivery.
Field, R. I. (2008). Why is health care regulation so complex?. Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 33(10), 607. 33(10): 607–608.
Federal regulations that regulate health care and how they affect the health care sector are explained in this article. It also explains the rules that are kept in place and how they affect the stakeholders in the health care sector and health practitioners. Federal rules and regulations seem to be changing, and it is significant for healthcare practitioners to be updated with the recent regulation that is in use. This can make health care employees to be overwhelmed.
This article is useful for my paper because it shows how federal regulations are often changing and how they affect the health care practitioners who are the main area of my discussion.
Mitchell, P. H. (2008). Defining patient safety and quality care. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2681/.
This book presents key definitions that connect patient's safety with health care quality. It demonstrates how nurses are on the forefront trying to advance the quality of health care via patients safety techniques and interventions. Also, this book demonstrates how health practitioners abide with ethical concepts in order to provide the best healthcare services. Moreover, this book highlights steps to take whenever a problem arises in order to ensure no harm will occur to patients.
Therefore, this book can be utilized in writing my paper by presenting how the duties of nurses and healthcare practitioners are done to deliver quality healthcare services.
Vitalari, N. A Prospective Anaysis of the Future of the US Healthcare Industry. Center of Digital Transformation White Paper Series, UC Irvine. Retrieved from http://merage.uci.edu/ResearchAndCenters/CDT/Resources/Documents/ N%20vitalri%20A%20Prosepective%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Healthcare%20Indust
ry.pdf
This resource gives a comprehensive analysis of structural developments in the healthcare sector. This paper focuses on the present state of the healthcare industry in the United States and the challenges facing the industry. It also goes further to describe The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Moreover, the paper goes into deeper insight on the future of the health care industry and the delivery of safety and care to all patients. Further, it is in this paper that issues and requirements that healthcare practitioners have to follow in order to deliver good quality healthcare and patient's safety are described. Precisely, this resource offers in-depth analysis on the healthcare industry and quality of healthcare in all health-related organizations.