Decision Making - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications.

29 Nov 2009 The influence of religious beliefs and practices at the end of life is underinvestigated. Given nursing's advocacy role and the intimate and personal nature of the dimensions of religiosity and the end of life, exploring the multidimensional ... Read more...

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making.

29 Nov 2009 This article discusses delegation challenges and legal and regulatory oversight associated with delegation in the clinical practice setting. The authors address moral and legal attributes of the roles and responsibilities of health care providers ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Decision Making - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nursing, religiosity, and end-of-life care: interconnections and implications. 29 Nov 2009
• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making. 29 Nov 2009
• Dealing with the ethical dimension of dementia care. Oct 2009
• Death in the Netherlands: evidence and argument. 29 Sep 2009
• More advice is needed in dementia care to deal with difficult treatment decisions, say experts. 29 Sep 2009
• [Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium] 12 Sep 2009
• Case study. Dirty blood. Commentary. 30 Aug 2009
• Saturday morning in the clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• Effect of a supplement clarifying patients' intentions on doctors' willingness to follow the wishes of an agent with medical enduring power of attorney. 30 Aug 2009
• [Difficult questions must be further illuminated in the debate on extremely premature infants] 30 Aug 2009
• Shared decision-making and patient autonomy. 20 Aug 2009
• [Careful planning of the decision-making process in neonatology: ethical orientation] 12 Aug 2009
• Shared decision making is an ethical imperative. 30 Jul 2009
• [The rights of family members to make medical decisions for their incapacitated relatives] 30 Jul 2009
• [The living will - a helpful tool for communication and decision-making regarding death and dying] 30 Jul 2009
• The medical ethics of making tough decisions: a conversation on ethics when public health and private practice converge. 30 Jul 2009
• [The question worth a more nuanced discussion] 30 Jul 2009
• [Also extremely premature infants have a right to full-scale care] 30 Jul 2009
• Intention, autonomy, and brain events. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Decision Making'

Definition: The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

Descriptor UI: D003657

Alternative terms: Decision Making;

Related Mesh Headings: Decision Support Techniques; Game Theory; Policy Making;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373;

Technical Notes: not for a physician making a diagnostic decision: this is /diag or if GEN, DIAGNOSIS or DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL