Ethics in LTC Administration

Order Description

The purposes of this individual paper is to (1) develop your critical thinking skills, (2) enhance your problem solving and decision making abilities, and (3) improve
your knowledge and expertise about ethical issues in long term care. Preparing a case analysis also provides you with an opportunity to further develop your writing
effectiveness.
This part of the course focuses on a paper addressing the legal and ethical issues of long term care administration. Students may select from two case studies in the
text book.

response should be 3-5 pages in length, not counting a cover page, abstract, and references, in APA format.

Answer these questionCase Study Questions. Please See attachment.

1. As a member of the healthcare ethics committee, explore to following options:
a. Transfer the patient to an inpatient hospice, where he can die a natural death and any pain will be treated with medications.
b. Keep the patient at your facility and go to court for a an order to insert a feeding tube under the contention that, without the feeding tube, he will die.
2. Discuss how keeping the patient at your healthcare institution or having this physician treat the patient would violate the religious stance of both the
organization and the physician.
3. How is this discussion changed if the patient has both a living will and a healthcare proxy that specifically state he does not want a feeding tube and he wishes
his death to be peaceful, even if that means using medication to keep him comfortable at the expense of shortening his life?