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Policies Ensure Ethical Care for Marginalized, At-Risk, Unrepresented Patients
Adults who have lost (or perhaps never had) decision-making capacity and do not have either an advance directive or an identifiable, capable, and willing surrogate may be the most vulnerable patients.
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Overly Aggressive Collection Risks Violating Several Ethical Principles
To ensure ethical care, transparency and shared decision-making is needed across all aspects of patient care interactions, including billing and collections.
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Ethics Involved as Proposed Hospital ‘Conscience’ Policies Examined Closer
"We are apparently entering the age of religious exemptions for all manner of hard-to-understand positions." -
Program Directors Want More Ethics Education, Limited Resources Constrain Goals
The desire for more ethics training is not unique to plastic surgery. Researchers also administered the survey to program directors in anesthesiology, pediatrics, and general surgery, with similar findings.
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Update on National Certification for Individuals Who Perform Ethics Consults
The Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified program is a national standard that recognizes a consultant’s proficiency in identifying, counseling, and resolving ethical issues.
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Ethical Concerns if Patient at End of Life Is Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled
Adults with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities often present to EDs with complex medical needs. Their advance care directives are complex, too.
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Committee Tackles Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Genetics Field
According to one committee member, there is a lack of guidance about the responsible use of psychiatric genetics in clinical and nonclinical settings.
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Simulation Improved Pharmacy Students' End-of-Life Expertise
Groups of nursing and pharmacy students were exposed to either a case study approach in a classroom setting or simulated versions of the same cases.
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Be on Your Best Behavior: The Ethics Police Are on the Way
There are a few common scenarios involving ethics misconceptions.
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Interventions Aim to Promote Ethical Research Practices
Researchers tested the efficacy of a one-hour training session on psychology graduate students' attitudes toward ethically questionable research practices. Students who rated the training more favorably demonstrated greater attitude change toward detrimental research practices.