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Fostering Patient Safety: Importance Of Nursing Documentation, Shamsa Samani, Salma Amin Rattani
Fostering Patient Safety: Importance Of Nursing Documentation, Shamsa Samani, Salma Amin Rattani
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Background: Nurses are professionally accountable for assessing and documenting patients’ vital signs. Nurses failing to fulfill this responsibility position their patients at risk. This paper presents two real-life cases pertaining to patients’ safety resulting in fatal outcomes, leading to the professional, legal, and ethical liability of nurses as the providers of patient care.
Objective: This paper focuses on the role of organizational culture in fostering patient safety specifically in monitoring and documentation of patients’ vital signs and early recognition of warning signs.
Methodology: A comprehensive literature search was conducted using various databases, examining the significance of vital signs monitoring and …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2019
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2019
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Informed Consent And The Role Of The Treating Physician, Eric Feldman, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Steven Joffe
Informed Consent And The Role Of The Treating Physician, Eric Feldman, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Steven Joffe
All Faculty Scholarship
In the century since Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo famously declared that “[e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body,” informed consent has become a central feature of American medical practice. In an increasingly team-based and technology-driven system, however, who is — or ought to be — responsible for obtaining a patient’s consent? Must the treating physician personally provide all the necessary disclosures, or can the consent process, like other aspects of modern medicine, take advantage of specialization and division of labor? Analysis of Shinal v. Toms, …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2018
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2018
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2017
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2017
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2017
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2017
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2016
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2016
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2016
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2016
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2016
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2016
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2015
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Setting The Stage: Enhancing Understanding Of Bioethical Challenges With Theatre, Karen H. Rothenberg
Setting The Stage: Enhancing Understanding Of Bioethical Challenges With Theatre, Karen H. Rothenberg
Faculty Scholarship
Theatre provides a dynamic platform to reflect upon the ethical, legal, and social implications of medical innovations and the powerful impact on personal and professional relationships. This article explores the last four to five decades of theatre, which coincide with the evolution of the formal discipline of bioethics and the field of medical humanities, to aid in the understanding of the bioethical challenges we face today and to place them in an historical and societal context. Four plays are discussed that reflect the ethical and legal context of their eras and reveal significant ethical challenges for us to consider.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2014
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2013
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2013
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2013
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2013
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2013
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2013
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2012
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2012
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Social Context Of Oncofertility, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Social Context Of Oncofertility, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
A field known as oncofertility provides female cancer patients with a variety of ways to preserve their fertility so that they may bear genetically related children after successful cancer treatment. Some women delay cancer therapy so doctors can collect their eggs, which are then cryopreserved in an unfertilized state or used to create embryos through in vitro fertilization for freezing. An experimental procedure for preserving the fertility of prepubertal girls, known as ovarian tissue cryopreservation, involves surgically removing their ovarian tissue and growing the immature eggs to a mature state so they can be frozen and stored until the girls …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2011-Winter 2012
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2011-Winter 2012
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2011
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2011
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2011
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2011
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2009
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2009
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Genetic Enhancements And Expectations, Kelly Sorensen
Genetic Enhancements And Expectations, Kelly Sorensen
Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Some argue that genetic enhancements and environmental enhancements are not importantly different: environmental enhancements such as private schools and chess lessons are simply the old-school way to have a designer baby. I argue that there is an important distinction between the two practices—a distinction that makes state restrictions on genetic enhancements more justifiable than state restrictions on environmental enhancements. The difference is that parents have no settled expectations about genetic enhancements.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2009
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2009
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.