{"product_id":"handbook-for-health-care-ethics-committees-1","title":"Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees","description":"How can dedicated ethics committees members fulfill their complex roles as moral analysts, policy reviewers, and clinical consultants?\nThe Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. Each organization must have a standing health care ethics committee to maintain its status. These interdisciplinary committees are composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested citizens. Their main function is to review and provide resolutions for specific, individual patient care problems. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to adequately negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings.\nHandbook for Health Care Ethics Committees was the first book of its kind to address the myriad responsibilities faced by ethics committees, including education, case consultation, and policy development. Adopting an accessible tone and using a case study format, the authors explore serious issues involving informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, the end of life, palliative care, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics.\nThe authors have thoroughly updated the content and expanded their focus in the second edition to include ethics committees in other clinical settings, such as long-term care facilities, small community hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and hospices. They have added three new chapters that address reproduction, disability, and the special needs of the elder population, and they provide additional specialized policies and procedures on the book’s website. This guide is an essential resource for all health care ethics committee members.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1421416573\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1421416573.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Post, Linda Farber|Blustein, Jeffrey\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46716858204337,"sku":"RDV.1421416573.A","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1421416573-0_60cbe7b8-0a18-472f-8e61-b82bcc3998c8.jpg?v=1773769271","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/handbook-for-health-care-ethics-committees-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}