Question: 2. 3. You Are Asked To Attend A Meeting Of Your Organization’s Healthcare Ethics Committee In Which An Ethical Conflict That The Organization Is Facing Will Be Discussed. How Will You Prepare Yourself For The Meeting? The Chapter Explains That Beneficence Can Have A Negative Implication-paternalism. What Negative Implications Can Other Ethical Principles …

2. 3. You are asked to attend a meeting of your organization’s healthcare ethics committee in which an ethical conflict that the organization is facing will be discussed. How will you prepare yourself for the meeting? The chapter explains that beneficence can have a negative implication-paternalism. What negative implications can other ethical principles have? Healthcare ethicist William A. Nelson (2006) describes the following three situations involving decisions. Which of these decisions involve ethical conflicts? Pretend you are a patient safety officer. 2. You need to choose among several software packages to track events involving patient safety. The decision is difficult to make, and you might need the assistance of a consultant to determine which software package is best technically and complies with organizational rules for return on investment, user-friendliness, and compatibility with existing computer systems. b. You have decided to purchase an excellent software package. Unfortunately, it exceeds the budget approved by the finance department. You split the order for the software package among three purchase orders, thereby concealing its true costs and staying within your purchasing authority amount and below finance’s “radar.” C. To facilitate your evaluation of a vendor’s software package, the vendor offers to take you to a site in Florida where the vendor’s software package has been installed. The vendor will pay for your flight as well as your midweek, two-day stay at a hotel. You are tempted to take the offer because you are curious to see how the software works in real life. Besides, you rationalize, it has been a brutal winter and you could use a short vacation. 4. Clinicians’ ethical obligations typically focus on promoting the best interests of their individual patients. Healthcare managers’ obligations, however, often focus on the best interests of the patient population served by the organization. How could these different perspectives affect discussions of ethical conflicts?