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Ethics Training Is More Effective In-Person than Online
Graduate students at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX, have received Responsible Conduct of Research/Professional Ethics Training since 2008 with very good results. Cheryl Stenmark, PhD, and colleagues wanted to know if the program would be equally successful if presented as a real-time, video-streamed, remote training.
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Surrogate Decision-Makers Are Most Common Issue in Ethics Consults for Patients with Liver Disease
Surrogate decision-making was the primary ethical issue for clinical ethics consults involving patients with liver disease, according to a recent study.
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Incarcerated Patients Pose Unique Ethical Concerns
Clinicians encounter incarcerated patients in both inpatient and ambulatory settings. Multiple ethical complexities come up with patient care in this population.
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Privacy Is Ethical Concern with Suicide Research Recruitment in ED Setting
Clinical research is necessary to improve the management of potentially suicidal individuals. However, there are multiple ethical concerns about how to protect the rights and well-being of study participants.
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Ethical Approaches for End-of-Life Communication with Non-English-Speaking ICU Patients
When caring for non-English-language-speaking intensive care unit patients, clinicians face all the same ethical issues as they do with any other patient, and some additional ones when cases involve patients who speak rarer languages.
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Emotional Effect of Clinical Ethics Work Often Goes Unrecognized
There is a great deal of focus on the emotional well-being of nurses and physicians, but the effects of clinical ethics work on ethicists are largely undiscussed. Anna Goff, PhD, HEC-C, colleagues interviewed 34 clinical ethicists in 2023 to learn the effect of their professional responsibilities and how coping mechanisms and organizational structures can help.
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Avoid the Common Pitfalls in Medical Documentation
Medical professionals often work under time pressure that results in some of the common pitfalls in practitioner documentation.
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Employers Can Face Variety of Claims
Given the extensive framework of anti-discrimination laws, an employer can face several legal risks when acquiescing to the discriminatory or biased preferences of patients or otherwise requiring employees to accommodate race or other protected class demands by patients.
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Multiple Laws Apply When Patients Refuse Caregiver
There are several federal laws that protect employees and job applicants from unlawful discrimination in the workplace.
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Consider Diversifying Vendors to Combat Cyber Incidents
With cyber threats continuing to plague healthcare organizations, risk managers may need to look at new strategies to protect their data.