Ethics in Health Services Management

Softcover, 336 pages
ISBN 1878812998
Health Professions Press
October 2004
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Providing a framework for identifying and solving normative and applied ethical dilemmas and the mechanisms to guide ethical decision making in the challenging arena of health services management, the fourth edition of this classic text will fashion more efficacious problem solvers out of its users.

The new edition of Ethics in Health Services Management succinctly dissects such critical, contemporary issues as patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, consent for treatment, appropriate resource allocation, whistle-blowing, and confidentiality.

Incisive examination and analysis of 80 case studies and vignettes (a dozen more than the third edition) from a full range of care delivery settings will guide readers to organized, logical solutions. The focus on virtue, ethics and values has been much enhanced, and futility treatment and its guidelines are placed under an ethical microscope.

This book helps managers ably and ethically confront the economic and competitive pressures that buffet health services organizations and systems by revealing how to:

approach ethical paradoxes with sound problem-solving methodology
formulate personal and professional codes of ethics
identify, link, and integrate values, vision, and mission statements
assess the ethical implications of physician-assisted suicide
address the ethics of marketing health care delivery in a competitive environment
develop and use institutional review boards and ethics committees
resolve conflicts of interest and avoid self-dealing
maximize community benefit while protecting and enhancing organization assets
and much more

This cutting-edge book is the lodestar for managers who increasingly are called upon to do more with fewer resources, compete aggressively but fairly, and meet a more oppressive regulatory and payment environment while providing a broader range of services.

Professors/instructors and professionals in health services organization and management, strategic planning, finance, marketing, and nursing management will find this text indispensable, as will nurse and physician executives in practice.

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