1st Edition
Ethics in Hospice Care Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment
By Bruce Jennings
Copyright 1997
120 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field. Many of the tensions felt by caregivers and practitioners in hospice stem from uncertainty about the ethical mission of hospice and the ethical... Read more
Contents
Foreword
- Preface
- Individual Rights and the Human Good in Hospice
- Issues of Access in a Diverse Society
- Will Assisted Suicide Kill Hospice?
- Ethical Issues in Pain Management
- Focus on the Nurse: Ethical Dilemmas with Highly Symptomatic Patients Dying at Home
- Legal Requirements for Confidentiality in Hospice Care
- The Role of the Physician in Hospice
- The Role of Ethics Committees in Hospice Programs
- Growth in Caring and Professional Ethics in Hospice
- Hospice Organizations’ Role in Health Care Improvement
- Hospice and Managed Care
- The Future of Hospice in a Reformed American Health Care System: What Are the Real Questions?
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Bruce Jennings
