Health Care Management

This work is aimed at all those involved in health care service management at all levels, including students thinking of entering management in the public sector. The book should also be of use to those professionals, such as nurses, who also take on managerial roles. The book includes: organizational ethics - the major aspects of ethical theories, major principles and moral values that are applicable within the organizational setting, expecially health care trusts and organizations; strategy for ethical management - the development of an ethically driven management system for health care; moral dilemmas - five relevant case studies identify organizational areas where moral conflict may arise; new directives within the applied ethics domain; and presentation of a model for practice within the health care organization.