Helping Residents Live at Risk  

Oleh:

Browne, Alister

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 12 no. 01 (2003), page 83.

Ketersediaan

Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: C01.K Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

Lihat Detail Induk

Isi artikel

Residents in long-term care facilities and rehab hospitals sometimes ask health¬care professionals (HCPs) to help them do things that HCPs judge to be on balance harmful. A person with respiratory problems may ask for a cigarette, a diabetic for alcohol, a dysphagiac for food or fluids by mouth, a person at risk for falling for her walker, and so on. These requests raise two kinds of problems. The first pits residents against HCPs. Should HCPs ever help residents do what they consider harmful? The second pits HCPs against HCPs. If HCPs disagree among themselves-some thinking that the resident should receive the assistance, others thinking not-what should be done? These are the questions I take up here. In discussing them I assume that there is no question of legal liability or professional censure that would prevent giving the help. I also assume that the help cannot be refused because render¬ing it will increase healthcare costs. I make these simplifying (but often realistic) assumptions because I want to concentrate on the ethics of saying no on the basis of harm to the resident and on the logic of teamwork. Let us take the above questions in order.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali