Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care: Challenges and Solutions: .

by Dennis Robbins

Overview

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Longterm Care gives home health care providers practical approaches to the ethical and legal issues unique to home health care. The authors provide a sophisticated yet practical framework for developing and applying an ethics action plan. From establishing an ethics committee to integrating legal, clinical, and organizational concerns, to providing key medical-ethical decision making criteria for end-of-life decisions, the book offers home health and other community-based providers a comprehensive resource to guide staff and to avoid liability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834207837
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	06/28/1996
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	0.54(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care: An Overview * Internal and External Forces Leading to the Emergence of Ethical Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care * Foundations and Applications in Ethics: Understanding Principles for Addressing Ethical Issues * A Model for Making Better and More Justifiable Decisions * Tracing the Legal Legacy Surrounding Consent and End-of-Life Decision Making: From Quinlan to Cruzan * Formal Vehicles for Decision Making * Developing Institutional Policies Policies on Ethical Issues * Conducting an Ethics Audit * Clinical Ethics Rounds * The Facility-Based Ethics Committee * The Community-Based Ethics Committee: A New Concept To Meet New Challenges * Integrating Clinical, Legal, Ethical, and Adminstrative Problem Solving and Decision Making

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: William K. Cody, RN, PhD (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Description: This book provides information on legal and ethical issues in home health and long-term care, describes ethical analysis and decision-making in these settings, and provides models to guide caregivers in these processes.
Purpose: The book fulfills a need in the related literature by providing a resource to guide the reader through ethical questions in a way that is sufficiently comprehensive to deal with their complexity, along with tools and techniques to address ethical questions in practice.
Audience: The book, targeting caregivers and administrators in home health care, long-term care, hospice, and community health care, may be used as a textbook for healthcare professionals. Robbins, with a PhD in philosophy, a Harvard MPH, and 10 years' experience in the ethics of postacute care, is a credible authority.
Features: The book is organized into 12 chapters that provide an overview of the issues, explore the forces influencing ethical problems, present some key ethical concepts and principles, offer a model for decision making, and describe how to implement policies and procedures based on ethical reasoning. Chapters conclude with open-ended case studies and questions for discussion. The book ends with a bibliography on healthcare ethics, fulfilling the claim that the book is a comprehensive resource.
Assessment: This book features a well-balanced array of facts, theory, analysis, illustration, and guidance, and it will be a useful addition to any healthcare library. Robbins writes with a minimum of jargon and differentiates well between legal and ethical problems. A possible weakness of the text is the sparseness of the explanations of ethical principles. Robbins captures the profundity and urgency of the ethical issues he describes and frankly delineates which side of an issue he is on. The book leaves the reader better prepared to grapple with the inevitable ethical dilemmas of home health and long-term care.

Doody's Review Service

This book provides information on legal and ethical issues in home health and long-term care, describes ethical analysis and decision-making in these settings, and provides models to guide caregivers in these processes. The book fulfills a need in the related literature by providing a resource to guide the reader through ethical questions in a way that is sufficiently comprehensive to deal with their complexity, along with tools and techniques to address ethical questions in practice. The book, targeting caregivers and administrators in home health care, long-term care, hospice, and community health care, may be used as a textbook for healthcare professionals. Robbins, with a PhD in philosophy, a Harvard MPH, and 10 years' experience in the ethics of postacute care, is a credible authority. The book is organized into 12 chapters that provide an overview of the issues, explore the forces influencing ethical problems, present some key ethical concepts and principles, offer a model for decision making, and describe how to implement policies and procedures based on ethical reasoning. Chapters conclude with open-ended case studies and questions for discussion. The book ends with a bibliography on healthcare ethics, fulfilling the claim that the book is a comprehensive resource. This book features a well-balanced array of facts, theory, analysis, illustration, and guidance, and it will be a useful addition to any healthcare library. Robbins writes with a minimum of jargon and differentiates well between legal and ethical problems. A possible weakness of the text is the sparseness of the explanations of ethical principles. Robbins captures the profundity and urgency of the ethical issueshe describes and frankly delineates which side of an issue he is on. The book leaves the reader better prepared to grapple with the inevitable ethical dilemmas of home health and long-term care.

William K. Cody