Applied Ethics and Law for Health Services Manager

APPLIED ETHICS AND
LAW FOR HEALTH
SERVICES MANAGER..

Introduction
This report brings out discussion on ethical issues and its related decision-making. These
ethical issues are analysed with the help of ethical theories. From the given case study, it is
seen that there must be implication of Markkula centre for the applied ethics (Santa Clara
university, 2020). This will explore ethical issue of staff member, which is concerned
regarding the uploading the patient`s image on social media, which is directly related to
breach of the patient`s confidential document (Vallor, Green, & Raicu, 2018). A manager
jumps in between and analyses the unethical actions taken by the staff member while
breaching the patient`s confidential information. Most importantly, it is the duty of the health
professionals to deal with the inadvertent breaches while using the networking sites such as
internet forum, communication, and Facebook on personal and professional level (Miller et
al., 2019). The theories undertakes the case through five sources of ethical standards such as
utilitarian Approach, which focuses on ethical action, which are most good in some way and
harmful in other ways. It produce the greatest balance between goodness and harmfulness.
Here, exposing the pictures of patients without proper consent, which is incorrect in every
aspect of utilitarian (McLean, & Holmes, 2016).
Implications of Ethical theories
When a staff member has reported for the another member for uploading the patient`s image
through social media. I have overheard the staff member for the case. Now, as a manager, I
will undertake several theories of ethics to analyse this case and then call up a meeting to
make strict code of conduct for all the healthcare providers (Vidgen, Hindle, & Randolph,
2020). It is important to note that the disclosure of confidential information is detected as
crime, “The Police, and Criminal evidence” Act, 1984 has considered it as serious offence.
The act only provides accessibility to the police where police can provide power to access