Ethical challenges in health care
Subtitle: developing your moral compass
By: Vicki D. Lachman.
Publisher: Springer Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780826110893
Subjects: Medical ethics; Corporate culture; Ethics, Medical; Delivery of Health Care -- ethics; Morals; Organizational Culture; Patients; Safety
Description: Resource added for the Nursing-Associate Degree 105431, Practical Nursing 315431, and Nursing Assistant 305431 programs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Virtue of moral courage : Socrates to Barack Obama; title: Values and professional obligations : a guide to when to speak up; title: Danger management : cognitive reframing and self-soothing; title: Risk assessment and management; title: How to speak up and be heard : assertiveness and negotiation skills; title: How to deliver bad news; title: Patient autonomy : infringements in informed consent; title: Advance directives violation : for whom are we doing this?; title: Veracity : issues in prognosis, futility, and CPR; title: Patient safety : breach in our obligations to protect; title: When our colleagues are incompetent or unethical in workplace; title: Organizational culture : setting the stage for moral courage; title: Executive leadership : necessity of walking the talk; title: Importance of accountability cannot be underestimated; title: Moral courage through human resource management; title: Clinical and organizational ethics committees : roles and functions; title: Promoting a culture of patient safety; title: Managing disruptive physicians; title: Leadership development for a moral environment; title: The uninsured in America : a moral crisis in health care.