Administrative Interview 3
Introduction 3
Discussion 3
Effect on Decision-making 3
Effects on colleagues and work environment 4
Conclusion 4
References 5
Administrative Interview
Introduction
This paper focuses a health care organization and after interviewing a supervisor of a nursing home describes his views. This paper includes a discussion on how organization’s code of ethics, mission, visions and values affect decision-making. Further, it describes their impacts on colleagues and work environment.
Discussion
The person interviewed is a supervisor at nursing home. He describes that people at nursing home patients get good care and find themselves as in the home. The nursing home hires only those people who have experience in health care and can handle every situation politely. The organization aims to provide patients with exceptional care that a hospital cannot provide (Rippen, & Risk, 2000).
Effect on Decision-making
Every decision is made keeping all ethics and values in mind, whether it is to hire a new employee or to launch a health program. The supervisor explained that a nursing home is a very sensitive place, and here only those patients are admitted who need intense and proper care. It is the focus of the nursing home to provide exceptional services and to achieve this aim; the organization follows a strict code of ethics. The code of ethics includes many instructions that make an employee behave and work in a specified manner. Management also has to follow the code of ethics and having a specified way to behave, they cannot take a decision that can affect the code of ethics.
The supervisor defined this with an example that code of ethics includes a part that instructs to take immediate action. Being a very sensitive organization, the nursing home cannot afford a little delay in taking action. Every day a number of critical conditions occur that need the action to be taken on an immediate basis. The organization was planning to set a nursing home in suburbs of the city. The suburb is about 30 kilometers away, and there are only four expert physicians. For the next nursing home, the organization needed at least two extra physicians, who had agreed to join the nursing home after a month. Considering their reply that they will join after a month, the organization set to start the next nursing home when the physicians join. At the initial level, it was planned that practitioners will be available at the nursing home until expert physician join that. No critical case will be referred to the new nursing home, but the code of ethics did not allow so. It was thought that what if a patient’s condition get serious, a physician would take at least 25 minutes to reach from city to suburb. Therefore, the plan was postponed, and a nursing home was started after a month.
Effects on colleagues and work environment
The code of ethics provides colleagues an easiness to work at the workplace. When everybody knows what to do and perform own part responsibly then work environment will automatically become pleasant. Some of the colleagues do not like some point in ethical conduct; therefore, it rarely causes conflicts (Rippen, & Risk, 2000). The impact of the code of ethics is overall good on every employee and in the result good on the work environment. Mission, vision and values always get employees towards success, because they are set keeping a profitable future in mind. The clash sometimes is seen in the code of ethics.
Conclusion
References
Rippen, H., & Risk, A. (2000). e-Health Code of Ethics (May 24). In Journal of Medical Internet Research (Vol. 2). http://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2.2.e9
