Ethical foundations of health care. Responsibilities in decision making

Cultural Competence and Ethical Decision Making for Health Care Professionals

Cultural competence and ethical decision making are two separate, yet intrinsically related concepts which are central to services rendered by all health care professionals. Cultural competence is based on ethical principles and informs ethical decision making. In spite of this important connection, the interrelationship of these two concepts does not receive the attention it deserves in the li...

The Ethical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care

AWHONN Position Statements. Ethical decision making in the clinical setting: nurses' rights and responsibilities.

AWHONN 2000 L St. N.W., Suite 740 Washington, DC 20036 (800) 673-8499 Position AWHONN supports the protection of an individual nurse’s right to choose to participate in any reproductive health care service or research activity. Nurses have the right under federal law to refuse to assist in the performance of any health care procedure, in keeping with their personal moral, ethical or religious b...

Ethical implications and decision making in care education process.

OBJECTIVE To determine ethical implications for nursing practice at the point of decision making by nursing professors in practice area. METHODOLOGY A qualitative method was adopted, with use of semistructured interviews with sixteen nursing professors who delivered care at a teaching hospital in Salvador, Bahia, from May to June 2011. The methodological reference used was the discourse of th...

A Tragic Miscommunication: Ethical Decision Making in Burns Care