Assignment:
Moral Courage
As a healthcare administrator, you will be accountable to many people, including employees, patients and their families, the executive board, and the agencies that monitor the organization's behavior. There may be times when your obligations conflict with each other. What is the best way to approach these conflicts? How can you be sure that you are serving the needs of both patients and the organizations for which you work while exhibiting professionalism and moral courage?
For this Assignment, you will reflect on your responsibilities as a healthcare administrator and examine the importance of moral courage in performing well in that role.
Resources:
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Required Readings:
American College of Healthcare Executives. (n.d.). Ethics self-assessment Writing an Effective Op-Ed
Duke | Communicator Toolkit. (n.d.). Writing effective op-eds.
Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program. (2012, August). How to write an op-ed or column. WRITE-AN-OPED-OR-COLUMN.pdf
Oregon State University: Extension and Experiment Station Communications. (n.d.). Write for a general audience.
To prepare for this
Take the ACHE Ethics Self-Assessment. Review your scores. Consider what these results tell you about your ability to effectively work with ethical and professional challenges in your role as a healthcare administrator. Think about what these results say about your ability to exhibit moral courage by leveraging ethical principles in the face of challenges.
For this Assignment, you will write a two-page op-ed piece to be published in a newspaper about what you think moral courage means in your role as a healthcare administrator. Review the Learning Resources that provide information about how to write an effective op-ed piece.
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Submit your 2-page op-ed piece to be published in a newspaper, to include the following:
Define moral courage.
Analyze the importance of a healthcare administrator to exhibit moral courage. Need Assignment Help?
Illustrate the effects of an administrator modeling ethical and legal behavior (or, on the contrary, unethical and illegal behavior) on others in an organization.
Note: Your op-ed piece must include a references section. For any in-text citations you use, you must list your sources in the references.