Professional Ethics and Organizational Change in Health Care and Educational Management

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Professional Ethics and Organizational Change in Health Care and Educational Management

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 dilemmas arising in practice. This volume, a result of The Hastings Center and the Hospice Foundation of America s project on Ethical and Policy Issues in Hospice Care, addresses these issues in a clear, accessible way.Ethics in Hospice Care outlines the economic, social, and cultural challenges facing hospice care in a changing society and a changing health care environment. Issues of concern include: financial pressures as policymakers limit Medicare spending organizational pressures as hospice organizations enter a variety of new relationships with managed care organizations, home health agencies, and hospitals cultural and social challenges as Americans wrestle with moral and legal issues of death and dying and physician-assisted suicide the rapid and unplanned growth of the movement--from a single hospice in 1973 to over 2500 todayWhile primarily for practicing hospice professionals, Ethics in Hospice Care is vital reading for everyone concerned with assisted suicide, patients'rights, quality of life, managed care, physician referral, professional development, pain management, quality of care, and ethics committees. *Author: Jennings, Bruce/ Jennings, Bruce *Binding Type: Hardcover *Number of Pages: 120 *Publication Date: 1997/01/01 *Language: English *Dimensions: 8.78 x 6.38 x 0.56 inches

Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment

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 dilemmas arising in practice. This volume, a result of The Hastings Center and the Hospice Foundation of America's project on Ethical and Policy Issues in Hospice Care, addresses these issues in a cle

"The classic issues and trends textbook that lays the groundwork for a career in nursing Updated to reflect the changing job market Kelly's Dimensions of Professional Nursing, 10e covers all non-clinical nursing topics that students need to know. The text effectively covers the history of nursing, scope of practice, role of the profession in the overall health care delivery system, and other educational, ethical, and legal issues. In addition, this book covers the transition from student to practicing nurse, with material on the various nursing associations, what they do, and how they can help

The classic issues and trends textbook that lays the groundwork for a career in nursing Updated to reflect the changing job market Kelly's Dimensions of Professional Nursing, 10e covers all non-clinical nursing topics that students need to know. The text effectively covers the history of nursing, scope of practice, role of the profession in the overall health care delivery system, and other educational, ethical, and legal issues. In addition, this book covers the transition from student to practicing nurse, with material on the various nursing associations, what they do, and how they can help

Praise for the Previous Edition Provides essential information on the multifaceted role of the advanced practice nurse in a concise format. --Doody Enterprises Inc. Now in its fourth edition this highly acclaimed book remains the key title serving graduate-level advanced practice nurses APNs and recent graduates about to launch their careers. The book outlines what is required of the APN with guidelines for professional practice for each of the four APN roles the nurse practitioner clinical nurse specialist certified nurse midwife and certified registered nurse anesthetist. Advanced Practice N

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