Code of Ethics in Healthcare

Introduction

Health care is a general facility which is availed by people all over the world. No matter, the person is rich or poor; old or young; male or female, he or she needs to avail these services. Health care is typically provided to individual patients. The ethics of health care focuses issues related to several stakeholders, including providers, families, third party payers and corporations, institutions and patients (Loewy & Loewy 2004, pp. 100).

Health educators are solely responsible for maintaining the integrity and ethics of the health profession, these individuals face occasional challenges in their daily life while making decisions. Code of Ethics gives a framework of values that are followed by professions including Health Education (ethics.iit.edu). The ethics of health care is a subject that covers everything such as regulations and considerations regarding the providers, patients, insurance companies and billing third-party groups. The key ethics that are followed in my institute are given below; this code of ethics is discussed from the viewpoint of the patients and medical staff (Ashcroft, Dawson & Draper 2007, pp. 5).

The first ethics that are followed at the health care institute is Patient Privacy. The landmark verdict of ethics in health care has been to protect privacy of patients with the characterization of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability. This law shields the privacy of personal health confidentiality provisions and information of the Patient Safety Act, which helps to identify information that is used to examine security events and improve safety of the patients (Fulford, Dickenson & Murray 2002, pp. 30).

The other ethics that are followed is Paternalistic Medicine. Paternalistic medicine is a situation in which a doctor feels that he has the power to reveal, or not reveal the information related to the patient medical conditions at their discretion. This entails ...