Ethics in Long-Term Care
Apply management theory, concepts, and models to examine ethical best practices in long-term care administration and to foster performance excellence.
Ethical best practices in long-term care administration are crucial for fostering performance excellence and ensuring the well-being of residents. Let’s explore how management theory, concepts, and models can be applied to promote ethical standards in this context:
- Management Theory Application:
- Ethical Leadership: Implementing theories of ethical leadership, such as transformational leadership, to set a tone of integrity and responsibility among staff. Leaders model ethical behavior, promote transparency, and prioritize resident welfare.
- Stakeholder Theory: Recognizing the importance of stakeholders (residents, families, staff, community) and balancing their interests ethically. Engaging stakeholders in decision-making processes ensures their voices are heard and their needs are met.
- Systems Theory: Viewing the long-term care facility as a complex system where ethical decisions impact various interconnected parts. Understanding these interdependencies helps in making decisions that promote overall organizational ethics.
- Concepts for Ethical Best Practices:
- Resident-Centered Care: Adopting a person-centered approach where residents’ preferences, values, and rights guide care decisions. Respect for autonomy, dignity, and privacy are central to ethical care giving…
Ethical best practices in long-term care administration are crucial for fostering performance excellence and ensuring the well-being of residents. Let’s explore how management theory, concepts, and models can be applied to promote ethical standards in this context:
- Management Theory Application:
- Ethical Leadership: Implementing theories of ethical leadership, such as transformational leadership, to set a tone of integrity and responsibility among staff. Leaders model ethical behavior, promote transparency, and prioritize resident welfare.
- Stakeholder Theory: Recognizing the importance of stakeholders (residents, families, staff, community) and balancing their interests ethically. Engaging stakeholders in decision-making processes ensures their voices are heard and their needs are met.
- Systems Theory: Viewing the long-term care facility as a complex system where ethical decisions impact various interconnected parts. Understanding these interdependencies helps in making decisions that promote overall organizational ethics.(Ethics in Long-Term Care)
- Concepts for Ethical Best Practices:
- Resident-Centered Care: Adopting a person-centered approach where residents’ preferences, values, and rights guide care decisions. Respect for autonomy, dignity, and privacy are central to ethical care giving…
