Ethical challenges in health care developing your moral compass
Presents the issues and dilemmas facing nurse practitioners and health care managers in identifying and sustaining ethical practice and management. This handbook outlines both personal and organizational strategies to develop moral courage when facing such dilemmas. It combines discussions of ethica...
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New York
Springer Publishing
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Virtue of moral courage : Socrates to Barack Obama
- Values and professional obligations : a guide to when to speak up
- Danger management : cognitive reframing and self-soothing
- Risk assessment and management
- How to speak up and be heard : assertiveness and negotiation skills
- How to deliver bad news
- Patient autonomy : infringements in informed consent
- Advance directives violation : for whom are we doing this?
- Veracity : issues in prognosis, futility, and CPR
- Patient safety : breach in our obligations to protect
- When our colleagues are incompetent or unethical in the workplace
- Organizational culture : setting the stage for moral courage
- Executive leadership : necessity of "walking the talk"
- Importance of accountability cannot be underestimated
- Promoting moral courage through human resource management
- Organizational and clinical ethics committees : roles and functions
- Promoting a culture of patient safety
- Managing disruptive physicians
- Leadership development for a moral environment
- The uninsured in America : a moral crisis in health care