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Conflicts on Discharge Decision: Home or Skilled Nursing Facility?
Discharge to a skilled nursing facility is sometimes recommended in order to ensure continued independent community living for frail patients. Conflicting views as to what’s best for the patient sometimes raise ethical concerns.
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Students Unable to Identify Ethical Dilemmas
Faculty members in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the University of Portland noticed a concerning pattern: Graduate students were not able to identify ethical dilemmas.
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Advance Care Planning Video Feasible for Safety-net Settings
Using a video on advance care planning for diverse adults in safety-net, primary care settings is feasible, a recent study concluded.
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‘Can You Get the Patient to Consent?’ Ethics Role Misunderstood
This common scenario stems from a mistaken belief: That the primary role of ethicists is to convince patients, families, or surrogates to follow a recommendation.
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Long-term Opioid Use in Palliative Care: ‘Much Concern and Consternation’
Palliative care providers caring for patients suffering a heavy pain burden are torn between their calling to relieve suffering and the risk of opioid addiction.
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Data on Hospital Use at End of Life Suggest Less Burdensome Care
ICU use in the last 30 days of life remains high but is not increasing, according to a recent study.
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More Data on Moral Distress: It Harms Nurses, Physicians, Hospitals — and Patients
A group of researchers set out to learn the most effective ways to decrease moral distress in healthcare. In the process, they discovered the toll it was taking was greater than expected.
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Ethics of Patient Access to Experimental Treatments
Partner universities will build a national framework for more efficient, consistent, and widespread use of the program and help more hospitals offer experimental options to their patients.
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Mobile Devices Used by Unregulated Researchers
A new National Institutes of Health-funded project, Mobile ELSI, is developing recommendations for the ethical conduct of this emerging research.
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Study Sheds Light on Why Nurses Want Ethics Consults
A recent analysis of nursing requests for clinical ethics consultations revealed key concerns prompting the requests — and also what nurses felt was most important about the consults.