The administrator of the 160-bed long-term care home says the topic of ethics is "back on the table" because so many organizations are inadequately addressing the issues they need to address.

"Organizations are often weak when it comes to ethics," he says, because there is a tendency to make things more complex than they really are.

Karl says he "doesn't like to make things complicated," and that many managers or people in leadership positions are guilty of this when they are about to examine a so-called ethical question.

He says the core of ethics is simply about good problem solving, not gut feelings.

"You determine the legal component of what you're dealing with, identify the reasonable options and then select the best of those options. Then, you evaluate what you have decided," says Karl.

That's why Karl believes OMNI does not need to have a template for ethical decision-making.

"I think the template is there, and it's the template we employ when we want to make any good decision," he says.