Case Study: Angelique Home Care

Organizational leaders are responsible for establishing standards of behavior and for effectively communicating those standards to all managers and employees in the organization. One of the traditional ways by which organizations and top management have fulfilled this responsibility is through the use of code of ethics or codes of conduct. The code of conduct acts to clarify what behavior is expected to the employees. It provides employees with a chance to confirm whether their behavior is acceptable to the company. It also allows employees to try to convince others and warn them of their inappropriate behavior (Carroll & Bunchholtz, 2011, p. 255).. This paper will create an ethical code of conduct for Angelique Home Care. This paper will also

At Angelique Care Home Care we hire the best caregivers in order to provide the highest quality services to the residents. Using the highest standards when selecting employees by checking applicants’ work and personal references and performing detailed background and DMV investigations are one of the primary objectives of Angelique Care. All Angelique Care caregivers are employees and are thus bonded and insured and abide by the strict Angelique Care code of ethics. Angelique Care is a 100- bed skilled nursing facility, concentrating on post hospitalization transitional care. The greatest success of Angelique is the capability to help patients get better and discharge back home or to a lower level of care. Angelique Care employs own therapist and operate a large, fully contained therapy unit. The primary goal of Angelique Care Home Care is to help patients achieve their highest level of functional

Residents deserve to have control of their lives as much as possible even though they live in an institution. Autonomy means different things to different people. For other residents, it means being able to decide what to eat and when to it and what to do. Other residents, autonomy means being able to refuse or accept treatments. For the staffs of the facility, it means being able to comply the residents’ individual wishes without compromising the quality and effectiveness of the care given with the residents. This is a big challenge for the facility because most of the residents have physical and mental disabilities. Many residents are not totally competent to make important decisions by themselves. Facility staffs must find ways to make sure that decisions are made with the best interests of the resident in mind. In doing that, the staffs must give great credence to what they believe to be the wishes of the resident, protecting that person’s autonomy whenever possible (Pratt, 2015, p. 109). Another autonomy related issues in long term care facility is the issue of individual choice versus group choice. In long term care facilities, residents are not always able to have all their wishes granted if those wishes have a negative impact on others in the group. A resident may want a private room but it is not available. Or if it is available the resident’s reimbursement coverage may not allow