Quality of Health Care - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Practical use of the nursing Code of Ethics: part II.

29 Apr 2009 The Code Provisions V through IX focus on a variety of responsibilities for the professional nurse. Provision V spotlights nurses' obligation to the same values and actions for themselves as are espoused in The Code for their patients. Provision VI ... Read more...

Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right.

29 Apr 2009 Ethical and legal considerations in pain management typically relate to 2 issues. The first refers to pain management as a human right. The second involves the nature of the patient-physician relationship as it relates to pain management. Although ... Read more...

The marginalization of chronic pain patients on chronic opioid therapy.

29 Apr 2009 The realities of treating chronic pain do not reflect the attention that marginalization of patients taking opioids has received. Physicians continue the same prejudices and biases that were present decades ago. One theory proposed to explain this ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quality of Health Care - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• 'Undercover nurse' struck off the professional register for misconduct. 30 Aug 2009
• Setting priorities for patient safety: ethics, accountability, and public engagement. 24 Aug 2009
• Blowing the whistle on poor care and practice. 30 May 2009
• Ruling on whistleblower highlights the dilemmas nurses face every shift. 30 May 2009
• Practical use of the nursing Code of Ethics: part II. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right. 29 Apr 2009
• The marginalization of chronic pain patients on chronic opioid therapy. 29 Apr 2009
• Haywood case is a lesson for nurses and managers. 29 Apr 2009
• Haywood case shows NMC is out of touch. 29 Apr 2009
• Being there for patients: another view. 29 Apr 2009
• Pain and prejudice. 20 Apr 2009
• Just compassion: implications for the ethics of the scarcity paradigm in clinical healthcare provision. 30 Mar 2009
• Never forget the importance of caring. 30 Mar 2009
• Getting the different voices in the same room. 30 Mar 2009
• Response to open peer commentaries for "Ethical challenges within Veterans Administration healthcare facilities: perspectives of managers, clinicians, patients, and ethics committee chairpersons". 30 Mar 2009
• Ethical challenges within Veterans Administration healthcare facilities: perspectives of managers, clinicians, patients, and ethics committee chairpersons. 30 Mar 2009
• Advance care planning in care homes for older people: an English perspective. 24 Mar 2009
• Integrating ethics and patient safety: the role of clinical ethics consultants in quality improvement. 30 Dec 2008
• The Margaret Haywood case. 30 Dec 2008
• Seeking excellence in hospital care: evolving toward a systems approach. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Quality of Health Care'

Definition: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.

Descriptor UI: D011787

Alternative terms: Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality; Quality of Healthcare; Healthcare Quality;

Related Mesh Headings: Professional Staff Committees; National Practitioner Data Bank;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.761; N05.715;

Online Note: pre-explosion = QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE (PX)

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: IM