Religious Objections

Part 1

Create a possible ethical dilemma relating to your chosen field. For example: You are a Medical Assistant and your supervising physician consistently asks you to perform procedures that you are not trained for. Or, you are a Medical Biller and your supervisor has asked you to over bill certain procedures because the clinic that you work for is in financial trouble. Using the 7 Step Decision Making Model, apply the facts of your dilemma.

Part 2

Throughout this week, you read about managed care and third-party payers, the basic components of insurance.

Up until recent years the only options for the uninsured, if they qualified for it, were Medicare and Medicaid. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the landscape of insurance is changing.

For this week’s written assignment, read the following article:

Hamel, M.B., Blumenthal, D., Abrams, M., & Nuzum, R. (2015)

After reading the article, answer the following questions:

1. What are your initial thoughts from the article?
2. How do you think the Affordable Care Act improves health care for Americans?
3. Who do you think will benefit the most from the Affordable Care Act? Why?
4. Why are some states slower to participate than others?
5. If you could create a healthcare plan for the United States, what would it include, who would be covered?

Part 3

Working in a diverse environment lends to the opportunity of a variety of people bringing forward different ideas to increase the patient experience. In your role as an allied healthcare professional, you will interact with patients from a variety of cultures, backgrounds, religious practices. For this week’s assignment predict at least 2 diversity issues that you might encounter in your role as an allied healthcare provider. How will these issues impact care? What can health care organizations do to assist their employees in providing care to a diverse patient population?

Part 4

The electronic medical record allows for an elevate level of treatment for a patient now that their medical history is now accessible to their treating healthcare provider with a click of the mouse. Although this technology can lead to a quicker diagnosis and cross-collaboration of providers, there remain some potential pitfalls. For this week’s written assignment, in a 1-2 page paper, research potential issues with the use of electronic medical records? Discuss the issues and define the problems. Provide applicable prevention tips to the issues. Finally, in your opinion, do you think that these issues can be 100% eliminated? Why or why not.

Part 5

This week you studied bioethical issues as they relate to the healthcare worker. For this week’s assignment, conduct independent research (outside of your text) for current bioethical issues. Provide three examples of current, bioethical issues and explain the surrounding ethical issues. For the second part of your paper, discuss the importance of the conscience clause. Should healthcare workers and facilities have the ability to refuse to perform certain procedures based on moral or religious objections?