Healthcare Ethics: IDEA Framework and Social Media Impact

Running head: HEALTHCARE ETHICS
HEALTHCARE ETHICS
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HEALTHCARE ETHICS
Question number 1:
Every healthcare organisations are trying to provide quality care to all their service
users in the face of significant financial constraints and therefore, they are facing various
difficulties. Studies have found that both principle based like distributive justice as well as
technical solutions like cost effective analysis alone are not being able to resolve priority
based challenges (Leonardi and Vaast 2017). In such areas, given that there may be
competing gaols as well as values, organisations need to ensure procedural fairness. This
might be the best ways for ensuring that all decisions are socially accepted and that they are
demonstrating public accountability. In such arena, IDEA framework is found to be
extremely helpful and befitting as it performs the mentioned actions (Pennel et al. 2016).
The main benefit of the IDEA framework (Ethical Decision-Making Framework) is
that it helps in providing step-wise fair procedure in guiding healthcare professionals as well
as administrators. It helps them in working through different ethical issues that are
encountered in the delivery of healthcare services. This framework can be utilised in guiding
the different decision making as well as taking actions regarding ethical issues that might
arise at the bedside to that of even the boardrooms. This frame work helps in addressing two
general types of ethical decisions that might lie across the continuum of care like the
organisational and clinical. These would be described with the help of examples.
 Clinical decision-making can involve those ethical issues that have the
capacity of affecting specific individuals or that of staff members and focusing
on individual values (Hanea, Burgman and Hemming 2018). This might
include questions regarding decisions like “Should life sustaining treatment of
Mr. Bobby Smith be discontinued?”