As a hospital administrator, you receive a call from a colleague at another hospital. Your colleague, who is a friend, informs you that he has received a demand for a stipend from the ophthalmologists who take ED calls at his hospital, and they want a sizable raise. He asks you what you pay for that type of call and suggests that you could both benefit by coming up with a standard rate of pay over which neither of you will go in response to physician demands. It could save your hospitals $300,000 to do this. What is your response, and what is the rationale for it? please use the following as a resource
Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals
Pozgar, G. D. (2020). Legal and ethical issues for health professionals (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284144185
Requirements: 200 words
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Thus, I would advise my colleague to decide on the appropriate stipend to pay the ophthalmologist and consider the intensity of duties in their emergency department. Additionally, he should consider tasks requiring the professional’s services and performance to maintain legal and ethical desirability. Making tough financial decisions that balance the hospital’s fiscal resources and the quality of care is part of the job description of medical administrators. Ethical principles detail beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice as vital for health professionals. Therefore, health administrators should do their best to adhere to these principles by ensuring quality care, which is achieved by motivating employees to optimize productivity and performance.
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