HEALTHCARE ETHICS COMMITTEE Flashcards
(58 cards)
ACA 2010 meaning
affordable care act of 2010
HECs meaning
healthcare ethics committees
function and roles of HECs
developing standards and policies
education
clinical consultation
resource allocation
to develop, review, and implement standards and policies to guide healthcare orgs
developing standards and policies
provide framework to address complex ethical issues
developing standards and policies
integrating ethics across all levels of care
education
set goals for ethical education
committees
receives raining, choose effective delivery methods
committees
provide meaningful consults, address staff resistance, demonstrate value of ethical education
HEC members
collabs with ethics specialists to enhance training
HEC members
ability to address patient and staff concerns about ethics related to patient care
clinical consultation
ability to provide case consults to enhance patient care
clinical consultation
ability to resolve issues with patient decision-making
clinical consultation
use various tools to analyze the case and apply ethics principles
ethics subcommittee
or
ethical consultant
ability to apply ethics principles to difficult situations
ashcroft, dawson, draper, and mcmillan 2007
to provide appropriate consult on difficult-to-solve patient issues
ashcroft, dawson, draper, and mcmillan 2007
resolve issue at hand respectfully
goal
use protocol to allow best possible decision and justify actions
committee
format for getting request and conduct chart review
hester and schonfeld 2012
hospitals don’t have sufficient funds to meet all demands
hofffman 2011
suggests guidelines to facilitate decisions
hoffman 2011
both reluctance of HECs to address resources allocation and necessity for this action
lantos 1994
avoids politics
lantos 1994
policy development and clinical consults
microallocation issues