Description
By now you know that administrative responsibilities in health care facilities are managed by professionals who oversee medical facility processes, have in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements, and have a thorough understanding of the complexities involved in patient care. Drawing upon what you have learned in this course, imagine you have been invited to an annual meeting for a large national health care company. You have been asked to speak to a group of managers and directors about the strategic role of health care administrators and must prepare a comprehensive overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects of the health care administrator’s role.
Instructions
For this assignment, create a professional, narrated presentation focused on the political, legal, and ethical aspects of the health care administrator’s role. Your target audience are professionals in the industry who do not have a thorough understanding of your work.
Create a PowerPoint (or Prezi) and record the presentation using Kaltura. Follow the content outline below and use speaker notes to cover the required topics listed here:
- Provide an overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects specific to the health care administrator’s role (2–3 slides).
- Summarize how the different aspects identified in 1., above, overlap and interface (1–2 slides).
- Provide three examples of the duties and responsibilities involved in health care administration, such as risk management, policy and procedure, regulatory compliance, ethics board, compliance officer, et cetera (2–3 slides).
- List two types of jobs or titles often found in health care delivery settings that are focused on risk management and regulatory compliance; include review of the importance and benefits of these functions within the health care system (1–2 slides).
- Summarize how the political, legal, and ethical issues affect patients and staff including the patient benefits (2–3 slides).
- Summarize how the political, legal, and ethical issues affect the financial and business operations of a health care facility (2–3 slides).
- Summarize the health care administrator’s role in regard to political, legal, and ethical issues related to an issue such as a data breach, a HIPAA or EMTALA violation, et cetera). Review the implications of this function if mishandled. (2–3 slides)
Note: The presentation should not exceed 15 slides (with speaker notes) including a title slide and reference slide.
Grading Criteria
The grading criteria for this presentation is as follows. It must include the elements listed below so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed:
- Prepare an overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects specific to the health care administrator’s role.
- Summarize how the political, legal, and ethical aspects of the administrator’s role overlap and interface.
- Analyze three examples of the duties and responsibilities involved in health care administration.
- Evaluate two types of jobs found in health care delivery settings that are focused on risk management and regulatory compliance.
- Analyze how political, legal, and ethical issues affect staff, patients, and business operations.
- Create a professional slide presentation with speaker notes.
- Use a minimum of three quality academic resources to support your strategy and decisions.
Explanation & Answer
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political, legal, and ethical
issues in Healthcare
Systems.
An overview of the political, legal, and ethical aspects
specific to the health care administrator’s role
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It is ethical to ensure that documentation of patient’s information
records is well kept and privacy maintained
An overview of the political, legal, and
ethical aspects specific to the health care
administrator’s role
Privacy of the patient’s information in the healthcare is a great factor in
administration role which should not be infringed to.
The sharing of information between departments should be done by
authorized personnel with clear knowledge of patient’s data protection
This ensures there is minimal invasion to patient’s privacy.
The medical malpractice in healthcare, for instance surgeons leaving surgical
equipment in the patient’s body after operation, is termed as a negligence of
and the staffs associated have to be held accountable of their acts (Pozgar,
2020).
The healthcare human resource and ethic committees should therefore make
the employees aware of litigations through coaching and training
Summarize how the different aspects
identified in above, overlap and interface
The political, legal and ethical aspects in health care interact and connect at
the implementation of Medicare. The government agencies put across
regulations standards, ethics, and compliance guidelines in which the medical
systems follow
Healthcare administration is a service to government’s citizens, therefore
private clinics and community healthcare systems, insurance medical
insurance policies, and the government medical facilities are all bound by
government health policies (BCCampus Open Education, 2018).
The government agencies can certify the operation of medical personnel and
they can even own their medical facilities as long as they are bound by the
legal aspects of the government.
Examples of the duties and responsibilities
involved in health care administration
Human resource. The human resource department facilitates employee
welfare and engagement within healthcare system.
Human resource ensures the employees are in pension schemes and creates a
stronger pension schemes for the employees (BCCampus Open Education,
2018).
Occupational Safety Compliance and
Healthcare Finance Office
Occupational Safety Compliance. Due to the high exposure of the medical
personnel and other employees to the high risk to healthcare place hazards
such as physical injuries, air pollution and danger of infectious diseases, the
occupational safety take a big role (Pozgar, 2020).
The occupational safety departments ensure the standardized personal
protective equipment are provided to medical environment employees.
Healthcare Finance Office. The finance departments manages the medical
administration finances such as patient payments, bills and insurance
compliance payments. The departments monitors monetary spending within
the institution and plans for budgets for healthcare (Pozgar, 2020).
List two types of jobs or titles often found in health
care delivery settings, importance and benefits of
these functions within the health care system
Risk managers
The responsibilities of risk manager are as follows;
Management of patient grievances involving harm that might have occurred in
the due process of healthcare administration.
To prepared and implement risk management programs that deter medical
malpractice and enhance ethics in the profession (Pozgar, 2020).
The benefit of Risk managers within a healthcare system they provide
patient safety advocacy and implementation s...
