Ethics in Hospice Care

Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment

Bruce Jennings (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96901-8 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Bruce Jennings

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
ISBN-10	1-138-96901-X / 113896901X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-96901-8 / 9781138969018
Zustand	Neuware