Overview

""Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Longterm Care"" gives home health care providers practical approaches to the ethical and legal issues unique to home health care. The authors provide a sophisticated yet practical framework for developing and applying an ethics action plan. From establishing an ethics committee to integrating legal, clinical, and organizational concerns, to providing key medical-ethical decision making criteria for end-of-life decisions, the book offers home health and other community-based providers a comprehensive resource to guide staff and to avoid liability.

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Author:   D. Robbins
Publisher:   Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9780834207837

ISBN 10:   0834207834
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 December 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care: An Overview ; Internal and External Forces Leading to the Emergence of Ethical Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care ; Foundations and Applications in Ethics: Understanding Principles for Addressing Ethical Issues ; A Model for Making Better and More Justifiable Decisions ; Tracing the Legal Legacy Surrounding Consent and End-of-Life Decision Making: From Quinlan to Cruzan ; Formal Vehicles for Decision Making ; Developing Institutional Policies on Ethical Issues ; Conducting an Ethics Audit ; Clinical Ethics Rounds ; The Facility-Based Ethics Committee ; The Community-Based Ethics Committee: A New Concept To Meet New Challenges ; Integrating Clinical, Legal, Ethical, and Adminstrative Problem Solving and Decision Making

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