Right of Conscience for Health-Care Providers

Protecting the rights of conscience of health care providers.

Pmn-17: Support from Health Care Providers for Infertile Couples

Undergoing treatment with assisted reproductive technology may be a traumatic experience that will contribute to a variety of psychological difficulties. This is chiefly important because the numbers of women looking for infertility services are increasing. Therefore the emotional and psychological support offered in their nursing care is dominant. The degree of emotional distress can be very h...

Justification for conscience exemptions in health care.

Some bioethicists argue that conscientious objectors in health care should have to justify themselves, just as objectors in the military do. They should have to provide reasons that explain why they should be exempt from offering the services that they find offensive. There are two versions of this view in the literature, each giving different standards of justification. We show these views are...

The Lack of Systematic Training for Health Care Providers, A Challenge for Providing Pediatric Palliative Home Care: A Comparative Study

Background: The growing prevalence of chronic diseases in children has increased their need for palliative care. We aimed to compare pediatric palliative care and home care training in Iran and in the selected countries. Materials and Methods: This comparative study was conducted based on the classifications of palliative care for children and using databases such as Scopus, Science Direct, Ovi...

Institutional Conscience and Catholic Health Care

Despite serious challenges to the identity of Catholic health institutions in the United States, both Church and society should continue to see them as privileged places of moral discernment. This discernment occurs in “institutional conscience,” namely, a dialogue among all those authorized to act on the institution’s behalf about institutional actions, for example, medical interventions. The ...