Tag: Steve Abdool

Conversations about Challenging End-of-Life Cases: Ethics Debriefing in the Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit

January 17, 2011 by Laurie Bulchak

Clinicians frequently encounter and grapple with complex ethical issues and perplexing moral dilemmas in critical care settings. Intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians often experience moral distress in situations in which the ethically right course of action is intuitively known, but cannot be acted on. Most challenging cases pertain to end-of-life […]
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Making Ethical Choices: An Ethical Decision-Making Handbook for Health Care Practitioners & Administrators Second Edition

October 5, 2010 by Laurie Bulchak

About the book: Health care practice and administration is fraught with complex moral issues and dilemmas. Shifting paradigms in the health care system, such as limited resources, increased emphasis on patients’ rights, and moral diversity, have profound and far-reaching ramifications that impact us all – health care recipients and their […]
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