Chapter 4
The forum where many ethical dilemmas are reviewed and resolved by multidisciplinary teams comprised of health care professionals from medicine, nursing, law, chaplaincy, and social work.
what are ethics committees?
Organization the prohibits the employer from asking future and current employees questions about age, marital status, religion, etc.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
One concern of _______ is the injustice inflicted on patients who waster valuable time and money on medical treatments that do not work; and in the meantime may be foregoing more effective treatment.
What is evidence-based medicine?
The principles of _____ and _____ support taking responsibility for reducing the risk of malpractice and balancing the competing interests of individual victims of medical errors and the health care industry that harmed them while seeking to help them.
What are compassion and justice?
The math problem addresses this.
What are bed numbers?
Education, clinical consultation, resource allocation, IRB's, advisory roles, and decision-making responsibility.
What are the functions and roles of ethics committees?
Provides counseling or verbal warning, give a written warning (with specific guideline for improved performance), suspend or demote the employee, or terminate the employee.
What is the Progressive Disciple Model?
Evidence-based guidelines are the embodiment of evidence-based medicine and as such require _____.
What is ethical integrity?
Arises when a health care provider engages in negligence or commits an intentional injury of the patient.
What is malpractice liability?
Prohibits the use of federal funding for research that creates, destroys, or harms embryos.
What is the Dickey-Wicker amendment?
Medical staff, nursing staff, an administrator, social services, clergy or ethicist, and a community member.
Who are members of an ethics committees?
Ensuring employees understand their roles in the workplace with clear expectations.
What are supervisory roles?
Do no harm, unnecessary care, and the right treatment for the right patient.
What are malfunctions in the practice of medicine?
Occurs when the conduct of hospitals or physicians falls below the professional standards of care.
What is negligence?
Hospital acquired conditions that result in serious harm to patients.
What are preventable adverse advents?
Getting the full picture, rumors, communication issues, being part of the solution, and thinking beyond today.
What are the challenges for an ethics committee?
Allows children who are terminally ill to have a say in whether or not they continue treatment.
What is the mature minor doctrine?
Antibiotics, aspirin for heart attacks, and antidepressants in children.
What is over-used treatment, underused treatment, and misused treatment?
This type of stem cell is the only one approved for use by the FDA.
what are cord blood stem cells?
Publicized withdrawal or correction of incorrect information, accompanied by termination of any further publishing of the incorrect information.
What is a retraction?
Name some new issues for ethics committees.
What are external areas that affect care delivery, change from treatment to prevention, and population health?
Facilitates working with culturally diverse populations that may be vulnerable.
What is the HELP model?
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
This act prevents an employer from asking questions about your genetic information.
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
Long term public health surveillance is also known as _____.
What is medical monitoring?