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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.
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Assisted living (AL) communities are long-term care settings...
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Purpose of the Study: While theories of job turnover...
- ‘Ethics Between the Lines’
In long-term care settings, such as nursing homes and home...
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Jan 5, 2022 · 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).
A subcommittee of Pioneer Network’s Council of Elders set out to explore two dilemmas that are currently affecting long term care communities: vaccine hesitancy among staff and indoor visitation for elders. The goal of this paper is to show how ethical principles can be used as a guide for discussion of complex dilemmas.
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Apr 28, 2015 · Lack of resources, end-of-life issues and coercion were ethical challenges most often reported by nursing home staff. The staff would appreciate systematic ethics work to aid decision-making. Resident ethics meetings can help to reach consensus in decision-making for nursing home patients.
- Georg Bollig, Georg Bollig, Gerda Schmidt, Jan Henrik Rosland, Jan Henrik Rosland, Jan Henrik Roslan...
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- Nursing Homes in The USA
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- 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
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Aug 4, 2023 · These findings could aid decision-making by providing new perspectives on how to improve good care and ethical working in LTC and stimulating ethical conversations about this area of work in nursing education.
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Oct 14, 2021 · Abstract. Assisted living (AL) communities are long-term care settings where people live, work, and visit, and where social relationships and care, including end-of-life care, are negotiated. Assisted living is fraught with uncertainty and conflict about values, especially given residents’ cognitive and physical frailty.
