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Study Sheds Light on Why Nurses Want Ethics Consults
A recent analysis of nursing requests for clinical ethics consultations revealed key concerns prompting the requests — and also what nurses felt was most important about the consults.
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Family Important Influencer on Care Preferences
An analysis of 57 articles indicates that care preferences are influenced by a complex interaction of family, individual, and illness factors.
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Spiritual Self-care Linked to Higher Surrogate Confidence
There is increasing focus on finding ways to help patients and their families prepare for the surrogate role much earlier so that the end of life is not as traumatic for all concerned.
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Nurse-facilitated Discussion Decreases Surrogate Stress
Surrogates reported less stress and greater satisfaction after a nurse-directed discussion on end-of-life preferences, a recent study found.
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Ethics-Administrator Relations Go From Adversarial to Collegial
Good relations between ethics and hospital administration require a solid understanding of their distinct roles.
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‘Tremendous Interest’ in Dementia-specific Advance Directives
Court challenges and resistance are expected for recently developed dementia-specific advance directives despite strong demand voiced by patients, family, and providers.
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Advance Care Planning Discussions ‘Buried’ in EHRs: Problem Is Pervasive
Half of patients with a completed advance care planning legal form had no explanatory discussion documented, found a recent study.
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Reporting Individual Results to Research Participants
Noting that IRBs historically have “actively discouraged the disclosure of research results to individual participants,” a recently published consensus report calls for a paradigm shift toward transparency and disclosure of findings to research subjects.
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NIH Reaches Out to Native Americans to Join All of Us Study
The National Institutes of Health is treading carefully and erring on the side of communication and inclusion in asking American Indian and Alaska Natives to participate in the All of Us precision research initiative.
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Meaningful Informed Consent Tells People What They Want to Know
Informed consent forms should provide information that a reasonable person would like to have and that would help an informed person make a decision on whether to participate in a study.