27 Sep You are a director within your healthcare system at one of the local healthcare facilities and serve as an ad hoc ethics committee member. Your healthcare systems ethics committee is

You are a director within your healthcare system at one of the local healthcare facilities and serve as an ad hoc ethics committee member. Your healthcare system’s ethics committee is a multidisciplinary team composed of physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators, chaplains, and other employees. The primary ethics team members include your Committee Chair, which is your Chief Nursing Officer, your company’s Legal Counsel, a Local Ethics Advisor, and several ad-hoc members.  A situation has recently occurred at your facility, the ethics committee has requested your assistance to review the information and will require you to present this information at the next meeting.

There are four cases that you may select to complete this assignment, two from an eBook, one for an Arxis Financial, and one from the AMA Journal of Ethics on a case in Long Term Care. Information for the cases has been provided below. You will  complete the Ethical Decision-Making Steps Template for this assignment. Supporting external evidence will need to be presented using APA 7th Edition formatting.  Provide at least four references from the last five years

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Ethical Decision-Making Steps:

Healthcare Administrator’s Presentation to the Ethics Committee

Administrator’s Instructions : Complete this form, the Ethical Decision-Making Steps as defined by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), based on your selected ethical case study you selected as defined within the assignment prompt. You will be presenting this information during your next ethics committee meeting. Provide a response to each step below, ensuring that sufficient details are provided with supporting evidence. (Your supporting external evidence will need to be presented in APA format using in-text citations and remember to include a separate APA formatted Reference Page that your executive leaders may refer to in order to obtain additional information on your responses. Your references should be from the last five years, collected from the Week 3 to Week 5 course content, and you may include a maximum of two additional resources outside of the weekly content from your own personal research.)

Place an X in front of the Case that you have decided to present to your ethics committee:

_____ Option 1 from the eBook – HealthT Seeks Healthier Employees

_____ Option 2 from the eBook – CEO Misuse of Company Funds?

_____ Option 3 PDF – HealthSouth: A Case Study in Corporate Fraud

_____ Option 4 PDF – Ethics and Intimate Sexual Activity in Long-Term Care

Complete the following ethical decision-making steps below for your selected case: (Note: Appropriately adjust the spacing below for each step to provide your information based on the case option that you selected.)

Step One: Recognize the Background (The Circumstances Leading to the Ethics Conflict.)

Step Two: Identify the Specific Ethical Question(s) that Need Clarification.

Step Three: Consider the Related Ethical Principles and/or Organizational Values

Step Four: Determine the Options for Response(s).

Step Five: Recommend a Response(s).

Step Six: Anticipate the Ethical Conflict.