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Author : George J. Annas Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media Page : 328 pages File Size : 40,7 Mb Release : 2012-12-06 Category : Medical ISBN : 9781461203971
George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. Thorough, comprehensive, and easy to follow-using a question-and-answer format in much of the text-The Rights of Patients explores all aspects of becoming an informed patient: • hospital organization • hospital rules • emergency treatment • admission and discharge • the patient rights movement • informed consent • surgery • obstetrical care • human experimentation and research • privacy and confidentiality • care of the dying • death, autopsy, and organ donation • medical malpractice.
Patients' Rights, Law and Ethics for Nurses: A practical guide by Paul Buka Pdf
Understanding the legal and ethical rights of any patient in their care is essential to good clinical practice. Patients' Rights, Law and Ethics for Nurses: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive pocket-size book for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals that integrates health care law and ethics in relation to patient rights and in the co
Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 312 pages File Size : 44,7 Mb Release : 2000-03-01 Category : Medical ISBN : 9780309068376
To Err Is Human by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America Pdf
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Protecting Patients' Rights? by Stephen Mackenney,Lars Fallberg Pdf
'Ombudsman' has been adopted in a number of countries over the years, as a term for an administrative system that aims to protect the interests of individuals who complain against the system. However this protection varies considerably from country to country. With an eminent list of international contributors this book provides an overview of the role of the Ombudsman in relation to healthcare in countries with substantial cultural and historical differences. It demonstrates practical ways to protect patients' rights, looking at how each system operates, identifying the best components from each, as well as proposing future reforms. All healthcare professionals, including policy makers and shapers, will find this essential reading, gaining valuable lessons and insights to incorporate into their own organisations and systems. Book jacket.
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Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements by American Nurses Association Pdf
Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.
A key text for doctors, this revised, expanded and updated edition now includes a section on understanding one's own attitudes and empathy, and greatly enhanced material on communication strategies and skills. The text is also suitable for candidates preparing for the MRCGP examination.
In the field of social policy, some topics are so complicated that they will always be subject to debate. Since no clear right or wrong exists, they are consigned to the gray areas of ongoing dispute. Among such issues "open for debate" both across America and in this eye-opening series are capital punishment, genetic engineering, gun control, and global warming. Others involve terrorism and chemical and biological warfare, two outright evils, though with highly disputable solutions. Open for Debate explores the past, present, and future to shed light on complex, high-priority public policy. A lucid, readily accessible format offers the pros and cons of each issue with opinions from social policy experts. It features sidebars of fascinating facts and easy-to-understand diagrams of key statistics. Open for Debate introduces future public policy thinkers to both sides of twenty-first-century, life-and-death concerns.
The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety by Laura Cima Pdf
Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this second edition of The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. Reflecting the contributions of several dozen nurses who provided new and updated content, this book includes strategies, examples, and advice on how to: * Develop effective medication reconciliation processes * Identify and address causes of medication errors * Encourage the reporting of medication errors in a safe and just culture * Apply human factors solutions to medication management issues and the implementation of programs to reduce medication errors * Use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized provider order entry) to improve medication safety * Recognize the special issues of medication safety in disciplines such as obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and oncology and within program settings beyond large urban hospitals, including long term care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care and office-based surgery
Medicine is a complex social institution which includes biomedical research, clinical practice, and the administration and organization of health care delivery. As such, it is amenable to analysis from a number of disciplines and directions. The present volume is composed of revised papers on the theme of "Responsibility in Health Care" presented at the Eleventh Trans Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, which was held in Springfield, illinois on March 16-18, 1981. The collective focus of these essays is the clinical practice of medicine and the themes and issues related to questions of responsibility in that setting. Responsibility has three related dimensions which make it a suitable theme for an inquiry into clinical medicine: (a) an external dimension in legal and political analysis in which the State imposes penalties on individuals and groups and in which officials and governments are held accountable for policies; (b) an internal dimension in moral and ethical analysis in which individuals take into account the consequences of their actions and the criteria which bear upon their choices; and (c) a comprehensive dimension in social and cultural analysis in which values are ordered in the structure of a civilization ([8], p. 5). The title "Responsibility in Health Care" thus signifies a broad inquiry not only into the ethics of individual character and actions, but the moral foundations of the cultural, legal, political, and social context of health care generally.
Patients' Rights, Law and Ethics for Nurses by Paul Buka Pdf
The second edition of this acclaimed text integrates health care law and ethics in relation to patients rights and in the context of everyday nursing and health care practice.Focusing on principles of law and including clear outlines of the essential legal precedent, the author lays a solid foundation for understanding the intersection of law, eth
Transposition of the Patients' Rights Directive 2011/24/EU by Goscinska, Daria Pdf
The Directive on the application of patients´ rights in cross-border healthcare was adopted by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament on March 9th, 2011. In the context of the adoption deadline on October 25th, 2013, as well as considering the national positioning towards the Directive and the interpretational leeway, it is interesting to see how and to what extent national legislators transpose the Directives´ implications. This paper will focus on the process of transposition, specifically domestic public consultations. The analysis is a two-level comparison: on the one hand, it presents an intrastate study of the various stakeholders involved in the discourse during the transposition process, whereby a country-specific picture of diverse proposals, opinions and challenges can be drawn. On the other hand, the paper marks an inter-country comparison, offering a sample of European adaptational patterns. The healthcare systems of the analysed countries Germany, Poland and Austria are characterised by a Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) system, nevertheless they differ concerning systemic specifics of healthcare, their voting behaviours towards the Directive and initial situations regarding transposable provisions. The study of domestic discourses from an actor-centred perspective concludes on the most critical points of the Directive, which reflect on prior authorisation, reimbursement, information provision and National Contact Points, and on transposition patterns in the member states. Hypotheses on the goodness of fit, the scope of patients´ rights and difficult interpretational areas of the Directive were tested and partly verified. The intrastate study and cross-national comparison revealed considerable differences among a small sample of EU-states, with only some analogies regarding stakeholder and governmental behaviour. The contrast is visible in the number and type of stakeholders, timing of public consultations, the emphasis set in the discourse, frequency of discussed articles and accurateness of implementation. This results not only from the difficult and debated area of health policy, but also from country-specific characteristics. Overall, the analysis indicates how important the process of transposition, as part of EU law-making, is for the correctness and success of European policies. An emphasis on the implementation phase is required to closely understand, analyse and improve the functioning of the Acquis Communautaire. Die Richtlinie über die Ausübung der Patientenrechte in der grenzüberschreitenden Gesundheitsversorgung wurde vom Rat der Europäischen Union sowie dem Europäischen Parlament am 9. März 2011 verabschiedet. Im Kontext der Umsetzungsfrist am 25. Oktober 2013 sowie unter Berücksichtigung nationaler Positionen gegenüber der Richtlinie und dem zu Verfügung stehenden Interpretationsspielraum, gilt es zu erforschen, inwieweit die nationalen Gesetzgeber die Implikationen der Richtlinie umsetzen. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Transpositionsprozess der Patientenrichtlinie 2011/24/EU, insbesondere mit den nationalen Konsultationen während der Umsetzungsphase. Die Analyse besteht aus einem zwei-Ebenen Vergleich: einerseits präsentiert sie eine innerstaatliche Studie über diverse, in den Transpositionsprozess involvierte Stakeholder, wodurch eine länderspezifische Skizze bezüglich verschiedener Umsetzungsvorschläge, Meinungen sowie Herausforderungen gezeichnet wird. Andererseits stellt die Studie einen zwischenstaatlichen Vergleich dar, durch welchen Europäische Transpositions- und Implementierungsmuster verdeutlicht werden. Die drei ausgewählten Staaten Deutschland, Polen und Österreich sind jeweils durch das Gesundheitssystem der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung gekennzeichnet, nichtsdestotrotz unterscheiden sie sich im Hinblick auf die systemischen Ausprägungen, ihr Abstimmungsverhalten zur Richtlinie im Rat der Europäischen Union sowie ihre Ausgangsposition der Transposition. Die Analyse der nationalen Diskurse aus einer Akteur-zentrierten Perspektive mündet in einer Zusammenstellung der kritischsten Aspekte der Richtlinie, welche die Vorabgenehmigung, Kostenerstattung, Informationsbeschaffung und die Nationalen Kontaktstellen beinhaltet. Gleichzeitig fasst die Studie die Transpositionsmuster der Mitgliedstaaten zusammen. Die Hypothesen zu "Goodness of fit", zur Reichweite der Patientenrechte sowie zu interpretativen Problemfeldern der Richtlinie wurden getestet und teilweise verifiziert. Sowohl der inner- wie auch zwischenstaatliche Vergleich zeigt die enormen Differenzen einer relativ geringen Staatenprobe auf, mit lediglich wenigen Analogien in Bezug auf die Stakeholder und das Verhalten der staatlichen Entscheidungsträger. Der Kontrast zeigt sich insbesondere hinsichtlich der Anzahl und des Typs der Akteure, der zeitlichen Koordinierung der öffentlichen Konsultationen, des Diskursschwerpunkts, der Häufigkeit der diskutierten Umsetzungsartikel sowie der Transpositionsgenauigkeit. Die hervorstechenden Differenzen sind nicht nur Ausdruck eines sensiblen und umstrittenen Politikfelds, sondern resultieren aus den staatenspezifischen Eigenschaften. Insgesamt zeigt die Analyse auf, wie wichtig der Transpositionsprozess als Teil der EU-Gesetzgebung für die Korrektheit und den Erfolg Europäischer Politik ist. Die Fokussierung auf die Implementierungsphase ist notwendig, um die Funktionsfähigkeit des Acquis Communautaire genau zu verstehen, analysieren und zu verbessern.