Ethical Issues of Risk Management Disclosure in Healthcare Networks

Risk management disclosure is one of the so-called ethical processes that illustrate the culture of fairness (just culture) and no-blame. On the field, however, this culture is not always felt by staff. Disclosure is open to criticism and difficulties and raises ethical issues such as fears of being blamed and fears of the consequences for users. These criticisms and difficulties are linked to ethical values and principles, as is disclosure itself. Thus, many ethical dilemmas are experienced by staff. Fortunately, it is possible to optimize the disclosure process by examining the possibilities offered by organizational ethics to optimize the disclosure process. Using the concepts and tools of organizational ethics helps to overcome the limitations of the risk management process as a whole and to optimize it. It is therefore reasonable to hypothesize that organizational ethics can help to do the same for disclosure.