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| Strengthening Public Health Ethics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Summary: In early 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched an initiative to strengthen leadership in public health ethics. This resulted in the formation of an external Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director, an internal CDC Public Health Ethics Committee, and the creation of a new position, the CDC Public Health Ethics Coordinator, to oversee the activities of these two committees and to serve as the main point of contact for public health ethics at the ...
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| A Toolbox for Healthcare Ethics Program Development |
Summary: A comprehensive healthcare ethics program in a medical treatment facility develops ethical competence in staff members and creates a climate for ethical practice. This article describes a successful ethics program, provides examples of clinical and organizational ethics issues, outlines activities of an ethics committee, offers a sample outline of a program needs assessment, discusses educational foundations for committee members, and suggests resources to support program ...
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| Ethics Content in Community Health Nursing Textbooks
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Summary: Nurses learn ethics content and ethical decision-making strategies through textbooks, basic curricula, continuing education, and professional experience. The author describes an ethics content analysis of community health nursing textbooks, offers suggestions for the improvement of ethics content for textbooks, and raises awareness of the need for more emphasis on public health ethics in nursing and public health professional ...
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| Healthcare Provider Moral Distress as a Leadership Challenge |
Summary: Healthcare leaders are responsible for using strategies to promote an organizational ethical climate. However, these strategies are limited in that they do not directly address healthcare provider moral distress. Since healthcare provider moral distress and the establishment of a positive ethical climate are both linked to an organization's ability to retain healthcare professionals and increase their level of job satisfaction, leaders have a corollary responsibility to address moral distress. ...
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| Hospital Ethics Committees: Is it Time to Expand Our Access to Managed Care Organizations? |
Summary: Hospital ethics committees provide important services to their institutions, often including review of clinical cases for which an ethical issue or dilemma has been recognized. Traditionally, such case reviews or consults by the ethics committee may be called by the patient and/or family and institutional healthcare providers. Recently, managed care organizations have requested an ethics committee case review at a Chicago area institution. This article will explore whether or not the time has ...
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| Healthcare Provider Moral Distress as a Leadership Challenge |
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| Ethics Consultation in the Emergency Department |
Summary: ABSTRACT: Clinical ethics teams exist in various forms and have assisted care providers for several decades. Our clinical ethics service at an urban, tertiary, teaching hospital provides ethics consultation to care providers, patients, and their family members. Scenarios prompting an ethics consultation may be complex, often involving social, cultural, and fiscal components. Because patients who receive an ethics consultation often require a lengthy hospital stay, our group searched for unique ...
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| Ethics in End-of-Life Care |
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Ethics—A system or set of moral principles; rule of conduct governing a particular group, ie, medical ethics
Moral—Pertaining to, or concerned with, principles of right conduct
Principles—Accepted or profession rules of action or conduct 1
Beauchamp and Childress have written, “Ethics is ...
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| CHRISTIAN ETHICS: A Christian Code of Ethics? |
Summary: SALLADAY, SUSAN A.
Issue: Volume 25(3), July/September 2008, p 167 Publication Type: [Department: Christian Ethics] Publisher: © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Institution(s): Susan A. Salladay, PhD, RN, is professor of nursing at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. She teaches classes in nursing ethics and mental health nursing. Her doctorate is in philosophy, with a specialty in healthcare ethics. Susan has served as a hospital vice ...
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| Ethics Connection: Who Is the Clinical Ethicist? |
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Section Editor(s): Breier-Mackie, Sarah
For the past 40 years we have been witnessing the evolution of a new discipline in healthcare called clinical ethics. Many hospitals now have clinical ethics committees and provide clinical ethics consult services. How does clinical ethics differ from medical ethics, and who are these people who call themselves “clinical ethicists?” This question is ...
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