When Time Won't Tell / commentary / commentary

[...] when asking the nurses whether they should round on J. B., members of the trauma team seem to endorse the view that maintenance care is menial labor. To find answers, we need a moral framework that seeks something other than a reductionist, linear endpoint. Because bedside clinicians' kno...

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Published inThe Hastings Center report Vol. 40; no. 5; p. 12
Main Authors Rentmeester, Christy A, Chapple, Helen Stanton
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hastings-on-Hudson Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2010
Subjects
Hospitals
Learning
Nursing care
Utilization review
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Summary:[...] when asking the nurses whether they should round on J. B., members of the trauma team seem to endorse the view that maintenance care is menial labor. To find answers, we need a moral framework that seeks something other than a reductionist, linear endpoint. Because bedside clinicians' knowledge of financial consequences and resources is often imprecise, an ethics consultation effott in this case might begin by inviting input from the hospital financial office regarding routine avenues for reimbursement for "outliers" such as J. B. Such an action puts his ongoing care into a realistic monetary perspective for the clinicians and may dispel fears that one patient's care truly threatens the well-being of the hospital or of othet potential patients.
ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X