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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.
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Optimism Linked With Better Outcomes: Physicians Can Promote It
Researchers found that higher levels of baseline optimism were, in fact, associated with lower rates of ischemia-driven hospitalization and revascularization. This group of patients showed greater improvements in angina severity compared with lower levels of baseline optimism.
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Are High-Dose Painkillers Ordered? Ethics Can Prevent Harm, Conflicts, Legal Disasters
Ethicists can help resolve issues in cases involving high-dose painkillers by using highly publicized cases as a teaching tool, determining which cases should be escalated automatically, and helping resolve conflicts among clinicians.
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Widespread Boarding of Pediatric Psychiatric Patients Raises Concerns
It is difficult to imagine a child with a medical emergency staying in an ED for several days waiting for an inpatient bed. Yet, it happens routinely to children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies.
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Early Documentation of End-of-Life Wishes Linked to Better Outcomes
Careful and early charting of a hospice patient’s end-of-life wishes reduces the chance of an unwanted hospitalization, according to the results of a recent investigation.
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Ethical Education on Mechanical Circulatory Support Lacking
Modern life-sustaining therapies pose some complex ethical questions. Still, most residency and fellowship programs do not address the ethics of these interventions specifically.
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When Is It Appropriate to Admit End-of-Life Patients to ICU?
ICU admission should be based on the alignment of uniquely beneficial treatment offered by the ICU, along with patients’ values and stated goals of care, the authors of a recent paper argued.