The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role
Carefully go over the following readings assigned for Week 7. 1. Chapter 2 in the required course textbook The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role. 2. Menzel, Case: 4.9 "Mired in an Ethics Swamp" (pp. 106-116) available in the required course textbook Ethics Moments in Government: cases and Controversies. • (a) Using the following framework (incorporating elements from different decision-making models covered in the course) and (b) taking into account the takeaways from Case 4.9, analyze a real-life ethical dilemma that you have personally experienced working in the public or private sector. In doing so, please provide answers to each of the following questions/prompts: 1. Ethical issue perception: What was it about the situation you experienced that made you “see” an ethical issue? (e.g., being confronted with expectations, demands, opportunities, and conflicting interests) 2. Gut feeling: What was your gut feeling reaction to the situation? 3. Personal responsibility: How did you know it was your responsibility to do something about the situation? 4. Ethical dilemma description: Develop a description of the dilemma, including pertinent factual background information. Specifically, please emphasize the following: key actors, the viewpoints of each actor, the issues, the sequence of events, and the risks. 5. Conflicting values and principles: What were the conflicting ethical values or principles embedded in the situation? (e.g., efficiency/expediency vs. civic engagement; organizational interest vs public interest vs personal interest). 6. Ethical dilemma: Based on the conflicting values or principles that you identified, provide a general statement of the ethical issue involved in the situation you experienced (e.g., conflicting loyalties). 7. Dealing with the problem: Now that you have defined the ethical issue before you, think about how you should deal with the problem from different perspectives. Specifically: ? Identify your responsibilities to your organizational superiors, to your colleagues and/or subordinates, to elected officials, to the citizenry
Section I: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY Introduction The country is encountering a basic deficiency of medical care suppliers, a lack that is supposed to increment in the following five years, similarly as the biggest populace in our country's set of experiences arrives at the age when expanded clinical consideration is vital (Pike, 2002). Staffing of emergency clinics, facilities, and nursing homes is more basic than any time in recent memory as the huge quantities of 'gen X-ers' start to understand the requirement for more continuous clinical mediation and long haul care. Interest in turning into a medical caretaker has disappeared lately, likely because of the historical backdrop of the extraordinary and requesting instructive cycle, low compensation, firm and extended periods of time, and fast 'wear out' of those rehearsing in the calling (Wharrad, 2003).
A complex oversaw care climate in this country is restricting the dollars accessible to be spent on nursing care. Numerous wellbeing callings, particularly nursing, have the standing of 'eating their young' as opposed to offering compelling coaching to develop future medical services suppliers. Because of these variables, the quantity of medical attendants has diminished and businesses regard themselves as understaffed and seeking able work force. Before 2001 the decay had been apparent for a considerable length of time (Sadler, 2003). Nursing schools, public pioneers, medical services pioneers and the overall population is impacted by the absence of Registered Nurses (RNs) accessible.
As the populace ages, the assumption is that a rising number of RNs will be required essentially to keep up with the ongoing degree of medical care. Furthermore, the momentum ecological and political worries of expanding pandemic sickness, event of synthetic and catastrophic events, and expanding dangers of war, requires critical expansions in the medical services labor force (Jefferys, 2001). The public nursing lack and factors that increment the interest for expanding the nursing labor force notwithstanding public, state, and nearby debacles make the potential for a general wellbeing emergency. Nursing programs have endeavored to satisfy need for medical attendants by expanding enlistment and campaigning effectively for expansions in program subsidizing by schools and states for understudies.
Tragically, the issue of nursing understudy weakening hampers the best endeavors of nursing programs and irritates the public lack of Registered Nurses in the United States (Ofori, 2002). In 2003, the National League for Nursing revealed a positive vertical pattern in the nursing labor force supply in any case, the American College of Healthcare Executives (2006) detailed that in 2005, 85% of emergency clinic directors decided medical clinics needed more enlisted medical attendants to fulfill patient consideration needs. The United States Bureau of Labor insights showed by 2014, more than 1.2 million new and substitution nursing positions would be expected to meet the public medical services needs (Ramsburg, 2007).
Various broad endeavors to diminish weakening have been made by nursing programs including reinforcing affirmation methods and executing maintenance programs. Unfortunately, the issues of weakening keep on continuing nursing schools the nation over. Admission to a nursing program is serious and numerous potential understudies are denied confirmation every semester. Steady loss from nursing programs influences not just the particular understudy who is acknowledged to a nursing program and ineffective, yet in addition the understudy denied confirmation that might have been effective. Steady loss rates are expensive to understudies, nursing projects, and medical services the same by diminishing the quantity of likely alumni from schools of nursing and adding to the nursing lack. Many examinations feature the a lot higher than wanted whittling down rates for nursing understudies