HEALTH CARE
PROVIDERS
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Responding to emergent ethical dilemmas including-
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family disagreements about appropriate medical care
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questions about decisionmaker capacity
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administering life-sustaining interventions
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Reviewing and analyzing institutional policies, practices, and culture to identify potential sources of ethics conflicts and ensure alignment with values and mission.
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Formulating comprehensive policies to address ethics disputes.
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Educating staff to minimize ethics conflicts and hone moral judgment. Implementing programs to reduce moral distress or discomfort.
HEALTH CARE
INNOVATORS
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Evaluating novel biotechnologies to proactively identify ethical challenges and implications of development and use.
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Developing comprehensive, actionable strategies to avoid actual or perceived violation of ethics norms, thus minimizing controversy.
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Guiding start-ups as they navigate protections for research subjects and requirements related to informed consent and protocol review.
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Facilitating discussions with loved ones about end-of-life preferences.
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Preparing advance directives.
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Assisting patients and families in clarifying their values, interests, and concerns and aligning health care decisions with these considerations.
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Assisting patients in understanding their rights and asserting them.
HEALTH CARE
CONSUMERS
