{"id":6455,"date":"2025-07-15T11:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skilledprofessors.com\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:42:05","slug":"ethical-decision-making-in-healthcare-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/ethical-decision-making-in-healthcare-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Week 4 Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You work at a dialysis center where people with impaired kidney function come to use a dialysis machine to clean their blood as would their kidneys if they were working properly.&nbsp; You are the Facility Administrator in a location of a small chain of dialysis centers founded and run by a group of doctors who treat kidney disease.&nbsp; You supervise a group of med techs who work with the patients to help them undergo dialysis.&nbsp; The center is located in a state that has mandated that all healthcare workers be vaccinated against Covid and that covers all of your med techs.&nbsp; All of them have produced CDC vaccination cards that show they are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of your med techs in particular stands out.&nbsp; It is Rob Spears who just charms all the patients.&nbsp; Everyone who comes into the center seems to know him and he is particularly good with the older patients who make up the majority of the center&#8217;s customers.&nbsp; Rob has become very friendly with the center&#8217;s Medical Director who is one of the owners of the chain.&nbsp; Occasionally, they play golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Saturday, while you are grocery shopping, you run into an old friend who used to be a med tech at the center.&nbsp; She mentions that she attended a party not long ago and saw Rob Spears.&nbsp; She was going to say hello but stopped to listen to the conversation he was having.&nbsp; She states that he was bragging about fooling his employer with a fake CDC vaccination card he bought off the internet.&nbsp; He noted that he would not be forced to be vaccinated by an employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are a little overwhelmed by this information.&nbsp; Dialysis patients are particularly susceptible to Covid and you are very concerned that an unvaccinated med tech is working so closely with them.&nbsp; Even so, Rob is popular with the patients, is a great employee otherwise, and has a personal relationship with one of the owners.&nbsp; No one knows that you are aware of this possible problem.&nbsp; Should you choose to, you can keep silent, and it is unlikely that anyone will know.&nbsp; What do you think is the ethical thing to do in this situation and what would you choose to do regardless?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>be sure to use outside support for your posting. This should be from reliable sources (other than the text book), and you need to reference the sources using proper APA Version 7 formatting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 4 Discussion You work at a dialysis center where people with impaired kidney function come to use a dialysis machine to clean their blood as would their kidneys if they were working properly.&nbsp; You are the Facility Administrator in a location of a small chain of dialysis centers founded and run by a group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writezilas.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}