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Institutions that fund or conduct neuroscience research should incorporate ethical considerations into all stages of the process, according to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues’ April 2014 report, Gray Matters, Integrative Approaches for Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society.
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Nurses are often the health care providers who know the most about a patient’s wishes for end-of-life care, but are sometimes left out of such discussions.
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More than a year after an elderly hospital patient was found wandering a crime-ridden area in a hospital gown and slippers, the nation's largest HMO agreed in a settlement with the city to changes aimed at ending the dumping of homeless patients on streets.
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Parents of children who died in pediatric intensive care units want doctors and nurses to know that they respect and appreciate care providers' technical skills, but what they need more of is a personal, emotional connection with their children's medical providers.
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Communication between health care providers and the families of critically ill and dying children is simultaneously the most important and most difficult task in some cases.
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Nurses or physicians who place patients in restraints or in isolation now must meet stricter training and documentation requirements thanks to a strengthened federal patient's rights rule effective as of Feb. 6.
