| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) |
| Contents |
Section 1. The context of healthcare ethics committee work. Introduction / D. Micah Hester, Toby L. Schonfeld -- Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory / Toby L. Schonfeld, D. Micah Hester -- Healthcare ethics committees and the law / Stephen Latham -- Understanding and addressing health disparities through a racial paradigm / Jennifer L. McCurdy, Claretta Y. Dupree -- Cultural and religious issues in health care / Alissa Hurwitz Swota -- Moral distress / Lucia Wocial -- Section 2. Consultation. Ethics consultation mission, vision, goals, and process / Georgina D. Campelia, Denise M. Dudzinski -- A method of consultation / D. Micah Hester -- Informed consent / Jessica Berg -- Confidentiality and privacy -- Traditional concerns and digital challenges / Kenneth W. Goodman -- Decision-making capacity / Arthur R. Derse -- Discharge challenges -- Shifting from acute to chronic care / Wayne Shelton -- Surrogate decision making / Thomas V. Cunningham -- Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making / Nancy M. P. King, John C. Moskop -- Potentially ina / Thaddeus Mason Pope -- Cognitive dissonance and the care of patients with disorders of consciousness / Joseph J. Fins -- Ethical issues in reproduction / Anne Drapkin Lyerly -- Ethical issues in neonatology / John D. Lantos -- Ethical issues in pediatrics / Douglas S. Diekema, D. Micah Hester -- Neuroethics / Paul J. Ford -- Ethical issues in clinical genetics / Thomas May, Kelly East, Whitley Kelley, Jana Craig -- Challenging issues in surgical ethics: intraoperative decision-making, innovative surgery, and high-risk operations near the end of life / Darryl Schuitevoerder, Peter Angelos -- Psychiatric ethics / Cynthia M. A. Geppert -- Section 3. Policy development and organizational issues. Conscientious objection / Mark R. Wicclair -- Ethics committees and distributive justice / Nancy S. Jecker -- Developing and implementing effective ethics policy / Sabrina F. Derrington -- Ethics in and for the organization / Margaret Moon -- The healthcare ethics committee as educator / Kathy Kinlaw -- Understanding ethics pedagogy / Felicia Cohn -- Quality assessment of healthcare ethics committees / Katherine Wasson |
| Summary |
"In 1992, The Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation (The Joint Commission) began requiring every accredited hospital to have a mechanism to handle ethical concerns within its institution. In response to this (and other cultural forces in medicine), hospitals across America have come to satisfy the requirement by constituting an institutional Healthcare Ethics Committee (HEC)1. Physicians, nurses, administrators, social workers, chaplains, community volunteers and others populate these committees. Yet by their own admission, many of these individuals, while well intentioned and personally invested, have neither training in ethics nor have the tools at their disposal to aid in their ethical considerations. Even more basically, many members of an HEC, not to mention a healthcare institution writ-large, are comfortable explaining what constitutes an ethical consideration. So, while these individuals are the people both medical professionals and patients turn to for ethical insight into the complexities of medical decision-making, they themselves recognize that they are often underprepared to handle the depth and complexity of many moral2 problems raised by health care"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022) |
| Subject |
Medical ethics committees.
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Hospitals -- Administration.
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Medical ethics.
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Medical care.
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Ethics Committees, Clinical
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Hospital Administration -- ethics
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Ethics, Clinical
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Delivery of Health Care -- ethics
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Hospital Administration
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Ethics, Medical
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Patient Care
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MEDICAL / General.
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Hospitals -- Administration
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Medical care
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Medical ethics
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Medical ethics committees
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hester, D. Micah, editor.
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Schonfeld, Toby, editor.
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| LC no. |
2021029076 |
| ISBN |
9781108788250 |
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1108788254 |
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