Background Undergraduate nursing education standards include acquisition of knowledge
of ethics principles and the prevalence of health-care ethical dilemmas mandates that …

Physician medical directors working for health care insurance companies conduct utilization
reviews, participate in quality-of-care reviews, and adjudicate appeals. As a result, they have …

Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies undertaken with boards of directors
and CEOs in the United States, this groundbreaking book develops a new paradigm to …

In the continuing debate about the role of the Clinical Ethics Consultant in performing clinical
ethics consultations, it is often assumed that consultants should operate within ethical and …

Health care spending accounts for 17.7% of the gross domestic product in the United States,
and it is expected to continue rising at an annual rate of 5.3%. Despite high costs, health …

Introduction: The prevalence of ethical issues encountered in clinical practice calls for
ethical training to prepare emerging nurses with the ability to deal with ethical dilemmas …

This chapter presents an ethical case of a 15‐year‐old boy with cerebral palsy, hypotonia,
developmental delay, asthma, chronic lung disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and …