Administrative Ethics Paper

Administrative Ethics Paper

Cheryl Enzor

HCS/335

Jodie Ausloos, RN, MSN, EdD

March 19, 2012

Administrative Ethics Paper

Today’s healthcare regarding administrative ethics issues can stem from patient privacy to end of life care, or even medical research. The impact that it has on today’s society varies from person to person or from administrative issues to healthcare policy. With medical research on the rise one has to look at how it impacts the population in today’s world, and who benefits from these researches. The researches help to understand a particular healthcare end results along with what type of interventions took place. “For clinicians and patients, outcomes research provides evidence about benefits, risks, and results of treatments so they can make more informed decisions. For health care managers and purchasers, outcomes research can identify potentially effective strategies they can implement to improve the quality and value of care.”

(AHRQ Publication No. 00-P011, 2000)

Medical research has a vast variety of pros and cons on many different forms of medical research all trying to extend life, give life where one was not able to produce, as well as the possibility of cloning. Genetic Engineering is still a huge controversy of pros and cons such as “health risks from mutation of genes, or emotional risks as well as risking the abuse of technology.”  (Fremgen Ph.D., Chapter 11, Cloning,  2009). The possibilities are enormous but the ethical value still is debatable on all levels. Administrative ethics are “responsible in trying to recruit patients for research studies in a voluntary capacity in which they have not been subject to pressure, deception or lack of choice.” (Anderson, 2011, para. 3) With medical research suffering from a legacy of coercion the Belmont Report of 1979 helped to build the legal and practical framework regarding ethics dealing with health-related research. This report was designed to help build an...