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- Title
Developing a Clinical Organizational Ethics Program.
- Authors
Miller, Kelsey; Hartsock, Jane
- Abstract
Within the healthcare industry, organizational ethics has historically addressed professional or business ethics within a system that included financial incentives, salary scales, promotion criteria, the investment activities of the organization, billing, or similar activities.1 While these issues are important, they do not fully capture the range of organizational ethics issues that directly affect patients. Developing a clinical organizational ethics program requires a systematic approach for addressing recurrent ethical dilemmas that arise in patient care settings implicating policy, law, or structural/societal constraints. In this paper, we provide one framework for a successful clinical organizational ethics program, identifying The Joint Commission (TJC) requirements for ethics presence, key structural elements such as the existence of an embedded ethics infrastructure, leadership buy-in and support, collaborations with other key stakeholders within the organization, and a process for identifying and responding to these issues, which are often embedded in clinical ethics consultations.
- Subjects
HEALTH care industry; HOSPITALS; PROFESSIONAL ethics; SPORTS participation; ORGANIZATIONAL ethics; HEALTH services accessibility; LEADERSHIP; COVID-19 vaccines; GYNECOLOGIC examination; HUMAN services programs; CONCEPTUAL structures; PRE-exposure prophylaxis; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; DECISION making in clinical medicine; BIOETHICS; HEALTH facility translating services; OUTPATIENT services in hospitals; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Hospital Ethics, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
1938-4955
- Publication type
Article