Mvv and Hiv in the or

MVV and HIV in the OR

Ginger Furline

MHA 601

Instructor Dr. Tricia Devin

December 17, 2012

MVV and HIV in the OR

What if you were the president of Community Medical Center and you had just found out from the chief of surgery that you could possibly lose the most substantial part of your revenue source because surgeons and staff no longer wanted to operate with a specific nurse in the operating room (OR) that they felt might be HIV/AIDS positive? What decision would you make and how would you communicate it to your board, physicians, and the public? In an effort to support your decision, how could your organization’s mission and vision statement help substantiate your choice (Johnson, 2009)? If the effort is continued to relocate or remove the nurse, there is obviously a legal debate in the future. Since this process has already been put in motion with an offer and rebuttal with a declination and obtainment of counsel, the president/CEO must refer and rely on a vision and mission statement that must encompass some structure of disclosure, infection prevention, ethical standards and integrity, and adhere to organizational policy and procedure, and standards of care set forth form the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) to support his decision for termination.

For example, an example of a vision statement that might support the president’s decision to move forth with the termination of an employee might be: Community Medical Center will be recognized as a leader in the community health system differentiated by innovation, safe practices, and patient-centered care. There are fundamental provisions that a healthcare organization must encompass to become a leader, especially among the realms of competition from competing healthcare facilities. Adhering to the vision of always following safe practices within the organization it could be argued that placing a potentially infectious employee in such a sensitive potential for mutual infection was not...