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Infection control professionals adopting policies requiring workers to sign declination statements if they forgo influenza vaccination can expect to run into a persistent group of refuseniks with varied reasons for their recalcitrance.
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Sexual misconduct or harassment of patients in health care can be a major liability risk and probably happens more than you think, say a risk manager and attorney who are experienced in dealing with such issues.
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The criminal investigation of hospitals and health care providers in New Orleans has cast an unusual light on a group whose primary mission is to heal.
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Making end-of-life decisions for incapacitated patients most often falls to surrogates chosen by the patients, or to next of kin. But a recent review of the literature indicates that surrogates are only slightly better than physicians at making decisions that the patient would make if he or she were able.
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Just over a year ago, Terri Schiavo was the center of worldwide attention in several different roles severely brain-injured bulimic, daughter and wife trapped in a public family fight, fuel for debates over right to life vs. right to refuse, and subject of endless talk show discussion.
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Association addresses spirituality, medicine; Ontario transplant act triples organ donations; Patients recount ideal physician behaviors
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Conflicts of interest created when health care professionals form ties with the pharmaceutical industry are a mixed bag, according to experts from the Veterans Health Administrations (VHA) National Center for Ethics in Health Care.
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The number of Oregon residents who ended their lives in 2005 by employing the states legal physician-assisted suicide law was twice the number that it was in 1998, the first year after the law was passed.
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While it was not always so, nurses are now members of ethics committees in most hospitals, and are participating in consults where they traditionally were not.
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The state with the landmark statute allowing dying patients to ask their physicians for medication they can choose to take to end their lives has changed the term for the act from "suicide" to "death".