Search results
People also ask
Do nursing homes support ethical decision-making in long-term care?
Are there ethical dilemmas in nursing home settings?
Do nursing homes have a code of ethics?
Is there a lack of normative inquiry in nursing ethics?
Jan 5, 2022 · Abstract. In long-term care, ethical challenges are becoming increasingly apparent as the number of older patients with complex care needs increases, in parallel with growing demands for more cost-efficient care. Scarce resources, cross-pressure and value conflicts are associated with missed care, moral stress and nurses wanting to leave the ...
Apr 11, 2019 · We describe the results and implications of a literature review that identifies the number of normative and empirical articles, respectively, that have appeared in Nursing Ethics in each year from ...
- Eric Vogelstein, Alison Colbert
- 2020
Jan 5, 2022 · Introduction. In long-term care settings, such as nursing homes and home nursing care, ethical challenges are becoming increasingly apparent as the number of older patients with complex and long-term care needs increases, in parallel with growing demands for more cost-efficient care ( Preshaw et al., 2016 ).
Because no overarching model exists, regulatory bodies, such as those covering nursing homes, fail to support ethical decision making in long-term care and emphasize adherence to rules than that the promotion of moral decision-making.
- 10.1177/07334648211049806
- 2022/04
- Nursing Homes in The USA
- Federal Nursing Home Resident Rights
- The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics
- Human Rights and The United Nations
The definition of a nursing home varies from country to country. In the USA, the federal government uses the term “nursing facility” to refer to organizations that provide long-term custodial care that goes beyond room and board and uses the term “skilled nursing facility” to refer to nursing facilities that also provide skilled nursing and rehabil...
In the USA, nursing homes are regulated by a combination of federal and state laws which provide nursing home residents with rights and protections. The Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 specified that Medicare and/or Medicaid certified nursing homes must protect and promote residents’ rights. Examples of protected rights include the right to be trea...
Social work practice in the USA is guided by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics. This code includes guidance and expectations for how social workers should conduct themselves towards clients, colleagues, employers, the social work profession, and to the broader society. A key point in the Code of Ethics is the framewor...
Human rights are “norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses” (Nickel 2014, p. 1). In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Nickel (2014) identifies four defining features of human rights: (1) human rights are rights which impose a duty on others to respect; (2) human rights are plural and pe...
- Nancy Kusmaul, Mercedes Bern-Klug, Robin Bonifas
- 2017
Jan 5, 2019 · Abstract. In this paper, we argue that ‘good care’ in residential nursing homes is enacted through different care practices that are either inspired by a ‘professional logic of care’ that aims for justice and non-maleficence in the professional treatment of residents, or by a ‘relational logic of care’, which attends to the ...
foundational knowledge of clinical ethics, including prevailing ethical views and laws related to confiden-tiality, informed consent, truth-telling and deception, the right to refuse treatment, parental autonomy, decisional capacity, and surrogate decision-making.
