Competency
Assess current legal and ethical principles and the application of such principles in healthcare practice.
Instructions
You have recently been promoted to Health Services Manager at Three Mountains Regional Hospital, a small hospital located in a mid-size city in the Midwest. Three Mountains is a general medical and surgical facility with 400 beds. Last year there were approximately 62,000 emergency visits and 15,000 admissions. More than 6,000 outpatient and 10,000 inpatient surgeries were performed.
Three Mountains was recently in the news after employee emails were published in which patients were discussed in very negative terms, although patient names were not used. The employees that sent these emails were fired. The CEO and the Board of Directors has tasked you with developing an intake packet for new patients that will reestablish patient trust in the facility, employees, and staff. The patient packet will address new patient concerns by including information about HIPAA, informed consent, a confidential health history report, and a living will. The new packet will also include the values of the organization and a code of ethics.
Your intake packet will start with the Hospital’s Code of Ethics that includes AT LEAST 10 ETHICAL POINTS. The code of ethics should include (at a minimum):
The Code of Ethics should be submitted in bullet format in a Word document with an introduction. APA formatting for the ethical points and proper grammar is required.
Upon completion of your code of ethics, please prepare a PowerPoint presentation (or other shareable Webware/software you prefer) with narration in which you explain each ethical point and its relevance in the healthcare industry with examples to the CEO, so that she can answer questions from the Board.
Your audio presentation should include an introduction, a concise discussion of each slide, and a conclusion. The presentation should demonstrate your overall knowledge of the content, pronunciation of words, organization, proper recording, professionalism, and clarity.
Your presentation should be 10 minutes or less. Be sure to include the following:
Grading Rubric
F | F | C | B | A |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Not Submitted | No Pass | Competence | Proficiency | Mastery |
Not Submitted | Less than 10 ethical points included. | 10 ethical points included, but several points are underdeveloped. | 10 or more ethical points included, but one or two are underdeveloped. | 10 or more ethical points included, and each is fully developed. |
Not Submitted | Identifies the ethical points but is unable to demonstrate relevance to the healthcare industry. | Identifies the ethical points and demonstrates the relevance to the healthcare industry, but does not include examples. | Identifies the ethical points and demonstrates the relevance to the healthcare industry but includes examples that are irrelevant or lack details. | Identifies the ethical points and demonstrates the relevance to the healthcare industry with detailed and relevant examples. |
Not Submitted | The presentation fails to demonstrate an overall knowledge of the content, the correct pronunciation of words, organization, proper recording, professionalism, or clarity. | The presentation demonstrates some knowledge of the content, and the correct pronunciation of words, organization, proper recording, professionalism and/or clarity are lacking. | The presentation demonstrates an overall knowledge of the content, but the correct pronunciation of words, organization, proper recording, professionalism and/or clarity are still lacking. | The presentation demonstrates an overall knowledge of the content, the correct pronunciation of words, organization, proper recording, professionalism, and clarity. |
Not Submitted | Grammar and structure need extensive editing. | 3-5 errors and some minimal structural problems. | 1-2 errors and the structure is sufficient. | No errors and the structure is sufficient. |