Nancy Berlinger, Bruce Jennings, Susan M. Wolf - The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Av Nancy Berlinger, Bruce Jennings, Susan M. Wolf

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Decisions about life-sustaining treatment are often ethically challenging for patients, surrogate decision-makers, and health care professionals. Providing safe, effective, and compassionate care near the end of life is a priority for health care organizations. In times of uncertainty, crisis, or reflection, and in efforts to improve health care for seriously ill patients, guidelines can help.This is the first updated, expanded edition of The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying, which shaped the ethical and legal framework for decision-making on treatment and end-of-life care in the United States. The new edition, the product of an authoritative consensus process, incorporates 25 years of research, innovation, and developments in law and policy. It summarizes the current framework for making good decisions about treatment and care and identifies educational and organizational goals for health care systems. It covers care planning, decision-making for adults and for children, care transitions, the determination of death, and the policies and processes that support good care at the bedside. It also addresses the psychological and social dimensions of care near the end of life, with attention to effective communication with patients and loved ones and among team members. This book is written for physicians, nurses, and other clinicians in hospitals, nursing homes, home care, and hospice. It is structured for ease of reference during difficult clinical situations and includes extensive practical recommendations supported by print and online resources. This book is also essential reading for clinical ethicists, ethics committee members, health lawyers, and medical and nursing directors. As the U.S. confronts the challenges of health care reform, an aging population, increasing technological capacity to extend life, and serious cost implications, The Hastings Center Guidelines are invaluable to educators, scholars, and policymakers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2013-06-20
Mått: 249 x 175 x 15 mm
Vikt: 454 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 264
Upplaga: 2
Förlag: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780199974559

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Nancy Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center and teaches ethics in master's and doctoral programs at the Yale University School of Nursing. She directed the Hastings Center project that produced the revised edition of the Guidelines and is also the author of After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). Her research and publications include topics in end-of-life care, palliative care, chronic illness, patient safety, and health policy. She serves on the bioethics committee at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York and is involved in clinician education in the New York area, nationally, and internationally.Bruce Jennings is Director of Bioethics at the Center for Humans and Nature and teaches ethics at the Yale School of Medicine. He has published widely on ethical issues in end-of-life treatment decision making and palliative care. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and on numerous hospital ethics committees in the New York metropolitan area.Susan M. Wolf is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, as well as Founding Chair of the University's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, and a Faculty Member in the Center for Bioethics. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, elected Fellow of the AAAS, and elected Fellow of The Hastings Center. She directed the Hastings Center project that produced the first edition of the Guidelines in 1987, and was principal author of that work.

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Reports and publications from the Hastings Center have been influential in shaping and defining our professional attitudes to ethics of clinical care, particularly in regard to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and other matters related to end-of-life care. This second edition of their Guidelines is very welcome and provides a clear and reasoned approach to the different clinical scenarios... It's a pleasure to read as the material is logically sequenced and each statement or recommendation is justified-you feel each bit has been thought through and care taken to write it clearly. If you have an interest in the ethical underpinnings of what we do, this book is for you. If you teach about ethics and clinical practice, or are responsible for it at your institution, this is required reading.

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