Reflection on learning 08/14-2021
Running Head: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING 2
ETHICAL DECISION MAKING 2
ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
Chamberlain University
07/25/2021
As the Chief Nursing Officer, my decision to disclose the incident to the media was an effective one due to the fact that it showed that the facility was mindful and measures were in place to ensure that such incidents are not experienced in future. Disclosing the incident to the media helped in ensuring that the trust and the confidence of the patients were build for the success of the healthcare facility to be achieved. However, this decisions influences value based healthcare in a positive way because it helped in ensuring that the patients are informed on the manner in which the facility valued the health and the lives of the people (Jae-Woo, 2021).
As a result of the decision, there are different risks likely to be encountered. One of the risks is legal processes likely to be raised by the affected family. The legal processes might therefore end up affecting the financial performance of the facility as well as the life of the involved nurse. Moreover, reduced trust of the patients is the other risks which should be analyzed in ensuring that the performance of the facility is improved. The trust of the patients is important in ensuring that the facility is enabled to operate effectively. Again, the decision to disclose the incident to the media might affect me both professionally and personally. The impact of the decision to my profession is that it will ensure that backlashes are experienced hence reducing my performance. This will be experienced due to the negative feedback from the patients from different parts of the country.
According to different nurses, the disclosure of the incidents should not have been carried out. This is due to the fact that when the incident is disclosed, the trust of the patients might be reduced. The reduced trust of the patients might therefore make it hard for the facility to experience the needed growth and development. In different cases, different leaders might end up withholding the issues as a way of ensuring that the needed growth is experienced. The other reason why the incident is withheld is to ensure that the image and the reputations of the facility are protected (Kim, 2021).
The disclosure of the incident might destroy the reputation and the image of the facility hence affecting its growth and development. The chief nursing officers should work towards ensuring that the facility is protected from unnecessary issues which might reduce the numbers of patients served. On the other hand, this will influence value based healthcare in a negative manner therefore affecting the delivery of healthcare services to the patients. The negative effects to the value based healthcare is experienced because the bad behaviors of the nurses will be encouraged. I think that the incident should be exposed to the media as a way of ensuring that the nurses are discouraged and enabled to remain effective in their delivery of the services.
Imagining that I am the patient’s family, I would want the Chief Nursing Officer should handle the incident by punishing the nurse. The punishment will play important roles in ensuring that the incident is discouraged and the nurses encouraged to deliver effective and quality services to the members of the public. Moreover, the punishment of the nurse will help in ensuring that the image and the reputation of the facility are enhanced hence making it easy for the set goals and objectives to be achieved (Pak, 2021).
References
Jae-Woo Oh, H. J. (2021). A Study of Between Forensic Nursing Competence, Ethical Decision-Making Confidence, and Nursing Professional Value among Nursing Students. Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology, 846-853.
Kim, M. R., & Oh, J. W. (2021). The Relationship between the Degree of the Forensic Nursing Capacity, Ethical Dilemma and Ethical Decision-Making Confidence Perceived by Nurses: For Small and Medium Hospital Nurses. Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology, 1203-1212.
Pak, S. Y. (2021). The Influence of Nursing Students and Nurses' Awareness and Practice of Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Ethical Awareness on Ethical Decision-making. Journal of the Korea Convergence Society, 12(5), 61-70.