Ethical Decision-Making Guidelines and Tools

Kentoh/Shutterstock Learning ObjectivesAfter completing this chapter, the reader should be able to: Define ethics. Identify the importance of studying ethics for the health information management (HIM) professional. Identify Ethical concepts, including rele-vant values, principles, virtues, approaches, and theories. Apply a process of Ethical decision making to HIM Ethics is the formal process of intentionally and critically analyzing, with clarity and consistency, the basis for one s moral judgments. It is impor-tant for HIM professionals to engage in this process, because they are accountable for their actions as professionals, not just personally as individuals. Ethical reasoning is necessary to resolve the potential tensions between personal values and professional values and among pro-fessional values. This chapter presents a model for Ethical decision making and outlines ethi-cal theories and approaches that can help HIM professionals identify Ethical issues, work with other members of the team to identify and ana-lyze choices, decide on a course of action, and justify that 2-A decision making for an AdolescentMT is a 16-year-old young man with terminal brain cancer.

up by good reasoning. When making clinical judgments, healthcare professionals must offer support for their choices and be able to apply that reasoning in similar situations. The same is true when making moral judgments. An ethics curriculum has three parts: 1. Knowledge. The HIM professional needs to be aware of standards of ethical conduct

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