Assignment task:
As a health care 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?
Reflect on your responsibilities as a health care administrator and examine the importance of moral courage in performing well in that role.
An Op-Ed piece to be published in a newspaper about what you think moral courage means in your role as a health care administrator.
- The importance of an administrator to exhibit moral courage
- The effects on others in an organization if an administrator models ethical and legal behavior or, on the contrary, illegal or unethical behavior
Oregon State University: Extension and Experiment Station Communications. (n.d.). Write a killer op-ed piece Download Write a killer op-ed piece.