1. How does this case demonstrate the role of public health in social responsibility?
Knowing that social responsibility is when someone does his or her part in benefiting society, I can see Sandra is demonstrating this role. Sandra noticed a problem, the problem being abnormally high rates of infant mortality and injury in particular zip codes. Instead of taking the easy way out and overlooking the problem, Sandra began her research. However, once finding the cause of the problem, she took the initiative to finding a way to fix the problem. In doing so, she coordinated with many individuals and eventually received a grant to provide a class concerning car seat safety and to give away 9000 car seats. Overall, Sandra demonstrated social responsibility
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While reviewing my notes, I can relate a few pieces of information to this case. Being the CEO of the hospital it is part of her social responsibility to promote health and well being. By noticing an issue, and being notified by that public health director for information, it was ethical of the CEO to take action. Not only were her actions ethical, but also I found that they fit in with Rawl’s theory. His theory was for administrators to consider more than the greatest good for the greatest number of people. In doing so, he found that they should demonstrate compassion and fairness and include those who may not have been financially stable. Overall, by working collectively with Sandra was a great way for the CEO to promote and help with the public health of her …show more content…
How did this program improve the viability of the public health department?
Sandra’s program was a great was for the public health department to grow and continue working. It allowed them to take a problem that’s causing a large number of injury or deaths and give the community a way of preventing such problem. Before this program they had no control over the issue. Being the public health director she was able to contact many individuals and develop a program to control the problem. By promoting and solving such an issue, the public health department has shown its impact on the community allowing them to grow, or show their worth.
5. What ethical principle (or principles) do you believe guided Sandra 's development of this program?
While reviewing Morrison chapter 13, I found that the ethical principle that most likely guided Sandra was social beneficence. The article describes social beneficence as the idea that well-being is morally important and that people should have the ability to seek it. In addition to this, Morrison also adds, “the emphasis is on eliminating or diminishing areas that inhibit individuals and populations from the highest possible quality of life.” Sandra noticed an issue concerning a population that’s unable to help themselves, and search for the reasons why. Finding that the reason was due to being unable to afford car seats, Sandra felt that it was her duty, as a public health director, to take action. By promoting the well being of these infants,
This module of study has focused on many aspects of human health, anatomy, and the disease process. It has included such topics as the human organ systems, the mechanism of disease and the resulting disruption of homeostasis, the integumentary system, and the musculoskeletal system. The following case studies explore how burn classification will affect treatment, how joint injuries can disrupt mobility, and last, how a sedentary lifestyle can contribute to a decline in a person’s health status. The importance of understanding disease and knowing when to seek treatment is the first step toward enjoying a balanced and healthy life.
There will be an appearance of an investigation, in which those involved will be relieved of all culpability in Sandra’s death. At the end of the day, no one will be held accountable. The reason that I am reaching out through this article is that we, as a race of people, must be willing to step out of our comfort zones and change the status quo. Our natural proclivity will be to protest and sign petitions; however, without economic power to underwrite those petitions and protests, they will have no power — making them tantamount to a collective temper
The provision 8 of the American Nurses Association (ANA)’s Code of Ethics highlights that nurses collaborate with other health care professionals and the local and global community in promoting health. Nurses are committed in fostering the health and well being of individuals and the community. This also includes the broader health needs such as, world hunger, pollution, equity in health care, and human rights. Nurses are also responsible in keeping themselves updated with the health conditions of the community (Nursing World, 2001).
I will contribute to the mission of the Nurse Corps Scholarship program by continuing to provide care to individuals in underserved communities. Medically underserved communities involve racial minorities, offenders and ex-offenders, crime or abuse victims, LGBTQ citizens, people with AIDS, and those that are economically disadvantaged. I was born in the small town of Monroeville, AL. It is a great town but it does not have the best resources when it comes to health care. Most members of this town, including my family, would bypass the hospital there and go to the one in the next town simply because they feel
Boss, Judith A. Ethics for Life: A Text with Readings. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2001. Print.
From the humble beginning of Social Work there have been many people who have tirelessly worked, fought, and dedicated their life advocating for the people in our world who are disadvantaged. Furthermore, many of these people have been women who not only were strong enough to fight for the rights of others, but also had to fight the forces whom thought that women where in some way second hand citizens themselves. These women were brave and determined enough to break out of the box that society placed them in, and stand up for the social injustices that they seen taking place, and try to make a difference. Of the many women from the early days of Social Work none fought harder for social reform than Grace Abbott. Grace Abbott spent her life fighting to enact legislation for the betterment of society as a whole. This work would eventually earn her the nickname “the mother of America’s forty-three million children.”
Health Care workers are constantly faced with legal and ethical issues every day during the course of their work. It is important that the health care workers have a clear understanding of these legal and ethical issues that they will face (1). In the case study analysed key legal and ethical issues arise during the initial decision-making of the incident, when the second ambulance crew arrived, throughout the treatment and during the transfer of patient to the hospital. The ethical issues in this case can be described as what the paramedic believes is the right thing to do for the patient and the legal issues control what the law describes that the paramedic should do in this situation (2, 3). It is therefore important that paramedics also
So before we go in greater detail on the different perspectives related to social responsibility, one might question the meaning of social responsibility. It is generally agreed that social responsibility is defined as the business obligation to make decisions that benefit societ...
She focuses on the unjust distribution of common good such as health care, and this concern becomes a major theme in her writings. She brings the reader 's attention to the fact that our
“Social ethics is moral rightness and goodness in the shaping of human society” (Fowler 2). Provision one is the definition of this quote, the nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal, attributes, or the nature of health problems. The nurses at chestnut park have this provision down to a T. No matter what state their resident is in, they treat them as if they were still in their prime. Every nurse practices compassion for their resident when feeding, washing, dressing or toileting. Even when the resident is giving them a difficult time they keep their cool and try to work through the problem with them. One thing that I observed when I was
This essay will provide a theoretical understanding of the four ethical frameworks: Consequentialism, Non- Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics and Care Ethics. When applied to a situation these frameworks help teachers to resolve and justify their decision making. The objective is to apply the four frameworks to the scenario Helping Molly, to establish the most ethical course of action. Finally, a recommended course of action will be justification. The overarching ethical issue present within the Helping Molly scenario is the community sponsorship and the alignment with school beliefs and initiatives.
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
Catherine Rainbow. (2002). Descriptions of Ethical Theories and Principles. Available: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kabernd/indep/carainbow/theories.htm. Last accessed 22cnd Mar 2014.
3. Allow for the fact that ethical questions do not always have a unique, faultless answer.
There is not the same focus on compassion and emotions that would be found with the ethics of care. The authors conclude that the ethics of justice contain three concepts; “principles, purpose, and results” (p.126). Rawls (2009) agrees and adds that the major components of justice theory are equity, objectivity, and neutrality. The idea that justice should be fair to all those involved, which creates a system where there should be consistent ethical decisions appears to be a guiding concept of justice. Rawls (2009) would contend that through the theory of justice that there is a social contract. The theory values people as free, rational, and autonomous. The focus on the ethics of justice is on rights, laws, fairness, and equity. The terms of the contract would agree in principle that each person would act according to their own personal