Ethical Decision Making

Apply key concepts related to legal and ethical issues in health insurance and healthcare reform.
Interpret court decisions on health insurance related cases.
Examine situations that raise potential legal issues and formulate the ways the law can be changed to promote ethical principles and policy goals.
Overview
This individual assignment serves as a capstone paper to reflect on the goal of this course. The goal of this course is to teach healthcare professionals and
managers to identify situations that raise potential legal and ethical issues, and help the student understand how the law can be changed to promote our
ethical principles and policy goals. For issues related to regulation vs. legislation (rule making).
In this assignment you will demonstrate your achievement in the following professional competencies:
Ethical decision-making
Professionalism
Legal principles development, application and assessment
Information seeking
Written Communication
Impact & Influence of management and leadership
Change Leadership
Innovative thinking
Action Items
Read the rubric for this assignment.
Write a minimum of a 6 page paper that includes all of the following:
In this assignment you will take the perspective of a healthcare executive solving an ethical dilemma that your organization, community, and/or the
healthcare profession at large are facing.
Research and analyze any of the cases we have examined in this course or one you have located outside the course material which you believe presents a
conflict between healthcare professional ethics and current legal statutes.
After you have researched and analyzed a case which you believe presents a conflict between healthcare professional ethics and current legal statutes, you
will compose a proposal to other healthcare executives soliciting their support for legal reform with the State Legislature.
You can use a case in our textbook or external source.
Develop a proposal to include the following items:
Describe how healthcare professional and leaders can bring about changes in healthcare legal or ethical issues.
Explain the current conflict between healthcare professional ethics and the current legal statute you have selected. Use cases and outside resources to
explain your position.
Develop a proposal that will present a new piece of legislature that will address the ethical conflict. There are no wrong or right answers, yet make sure to link
your new law to previous cases and/or healthcare ethical principles. Use already existing laws but be creative in writing a law.
Identify the barriers to implementing the law, who the stakeholders are, and how the barriers can be overcome.
Organize your paper in the following manner:
Title page
Introduction (Summarize the case you selected. Include an explanation of why you selected this case and how it meets the criteria. Specifically state the
ethical dilemma).
Research
Proposal
Descriiption of proposal
Conflict
Proposed legislation
Barriers
Reference page
Appendices (if needed)