Sympathetic responsibility in ethically difficult situations

Experiences of being in ethically difficult care situations and an intervention with clinical ethics support

ii

A culture of avoidance: voices from inside ethically difficult clinical situations.

BACKGROUND Healthcare providers experience many ethical challenges while caring for and making treatment decisions with patients and their families. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine the challenges and circumstances that surround ethically difficult situations in oncology practice. METHODS The authors conducted six focus groups with 30 oncology nurses in the U...

Eliciting and Detecting Affect in Covert and Ethically Sensitive Situations

There is growing interest in creating systems that can sense the affective state of a user for a variety of applications. As a result, a large number of studies have been conducted with the goals of eliciting specific affective states, measuring sensor data associated with those states, and building algorithms to predict the affective state of the user based on that sensor data. These studies h...

Interrogating Assumptions about “ Difficult ” Patients and Situations

The phenomenon of health care professionals labeling patients as “difficult” is not limited to psychiatric settings and literature. In the broader medical literature, patients have been described in similar terms as “hateful” [3] or “heartsink” [4]. The description of this phenomenon in different health care settings during decades of practice and as explored in the health professions literatur...

Obstetric difficult airway guidelines - decision-making in critical situations.