Ultimately, a review benefits stakeholders, clients, and their families. The educational resource Cengage.com expands on the advantages of a healthcare audit. The ethics audit “identifies potential risks and liabilities and improves legal compliance, improve ethic audit, improve organizational performance, and relationships with stakeholders” (Cengage.com).
In reflection, ethic auditing is another way to provide stakeholders the best healthcare. Ethic auditing is a positive and should be welcomed by HCO staff. Ethic auditing practices assist finding strengths as well as weaknesses. The weaknesses can quickly become strengths if prompt action is taken to change the ethical infraction and or mishaps. Ethics auditing is necessary to provide safe, quality, care to all patients. Ethics …show more content…
The judicial approach takes into account the rights, values, and interests of individuals and groups involved in the ethical decision-making process. Although there is a justice element to ethical decision making, a ranking system is used to put patients’ quality, needs, and care first. As a result, the priority should be first, patients, second, clinicians and staff, and third the organization. However, the ranking system is variable; there is not one set standardized method to prioritize patients. Therefore, ethical decision making is a multistep process to help clarify any “ethical conflicts, structure reasoning, and promote ethical standards of practice” (Nelson and Hofmann