There are many ethical and moral decisions to be made when drugs are available in a health care facility

Topic: There are many ethical and moral decisions to be made when drugs are available in a health care facility.
As a department manager, develop a set of procedures and protocols regarding the handling, storing, and monitoring of drugs.

There are many ethical and moral decisions to be made when drugs are available in a health care facility

Using the GCU Online Library and the Internet, research three sources

Topic: There are many ethical and moral decisions to be make when drugs are available in a health care facility.
As a department manager, develop a set of procedures and protocols regarding the handling, storing, and
monitoring of drugs. Be sure to include generic drugs, control drugs, and all charting that may be necessary.
Apply your policies to Deanna, an employee who takes anti-inflammatory drugs home for her personal use.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center. An abstract is not a requirement.

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What Is Medical Ethics, and Why Is It Important?

Medical ethics involves examining a specific problem, usually a clinical case, and using values, facts, and logic to decide what the best course of action should be.

Some ethical problems are fairly straightforward, such as determining right from wrong. But others can also be more perplexing, such as deciding between two “rights”—two values that are in conflict with each other—or deciding between two different value systems, such as the patient’s versus the doctor’s.

Doctors may deal with a great variety of perplexing ethical problems even in a small medical practice. Here are some common problems identified in a 2016 Medscape survey, where at least some physicians held different opinions ^[1] :

• Withholding treatment to meet an organization’s budget, or because of insurance policies;
• Accepting money from pharmaceutical or device manufacturers;
• Covering up a mistake;
• Reporting an impaired colleague;
• Cherry-picking patients;
• Prescribing a placebo;
• Practicing defensive medicine to avoid malpractice lawsuits;
• further, dropping insurers; and
• Breaching patient confidentiality owing to a health risk.

Professional standards are a way to provide some guidance on ethical problems, but they cannot address every issue, and they may not address troubling nuances, such as reconciling two conflicting values.