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Nurs Rep
December 2024
Department of Philosophy, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA.
Background/objectives: Caring for patients at the end of life can involve issues that are ethically and legally fraught: withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration, pain control that could hasten death, aggressive treatment that is continued when it seems only to be prolonging suffering, patients who request medical assistance in dying, and so forth. Clinicians may find that their deeply held ethical principles conflict with law, institutional policy, or patients' choices. In these situations, they may consider either refusing to participate in procedures that they find morally abhorrent (conscientious refusal) or providing care that they believe to be ethically obligatory despite being contrary to law or policy (conscientious commitment).
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December 2024
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
This perspective article shares the viewpoints of two long-standing patient safety advocates who have participated first-hand in the evolution of patient engagement in healthcare quality and safety. Their involvement is motivated by a rejection of the common cruelty of institutional betrayal that compounds harm when patient safety fails. The advocates have sought to understand how it can be that fractured trust spreads so predictably after harm, just when it most needs strengthening.
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December 2024
Division of Medical Law and Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Aims: To identify the characteristics and compare the codes of ethics enacted by the Korean Nursing Association and International Council of Nurses.
Design: A mixed-method collective case study.
Methods: This study adopted interpretive approaches comprising case definition and selection, data collection, analysis and interpretation.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci
December 2024
OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.
What does the brain mean in a legal domain, and how does integrating neuroscience and law go beyond the practical difficulties highlighted by social scientists and legal theorists? The debate about the confluence of neuroscience and law is both promising and uncertain. Legal theorists took it as a conceptual error, and neuroscience advocates find it a promising emerging field. The social psychological approach towards law is for critical integration of both.
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December 2024
Medical Education Research Center, Department of Medical Education, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Background: Competency frameworks are used to guide professional education and assessment. An orthodontic graduate needs various competencies. This study aimed to determine competencies and create a basic competency framework for orthodontic graduates.
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