Cultural Factors in Ethics Consultations

Answers and questions about ethics consultations.

ETHICS CONSULTATIONS ARE TOUTED FOR RESOLVING ETHIcal dilemmas, and most hospitals use them to meet the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations’ requirement for a process to resolve conflicts in patient care. Little rigorous evidence is available, however, about the outcomes of ethics consultations. In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Schneiderman and colleagues report a mu...

What triggers requests for ethics consultations?

OBJECTIVES While clinical practice is complicated by many ethical dilemmas, clinicians do not often request ethics consultations. We therefore investigated what triggers clinicians' requests for ethics consultation. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone survey. SETTING Internal medicine practices throughout the United States. PARTICIPANTS Randomly selected physicians practising in internal med...

Cultural diversity in nanotechnology ethics.

Along with the rapid worldwide advance of nanotechnology, debates on associated ethical issues have spread from local to international levels. However unlike science and engineering issues, international perceptions of ethical issues are very diverse. This paper provides an analysis of how sociocultural factors such as language, cultural heritage, economics and politics can affect how people pe...

Consultations in clinical ethics--issues and questions in 27 cases.

Ethics and Cross-Cultural Nursing

This article examines how cultural misunderstandings and language differences generate ethical dilemmas in crosscultural nursing. It explores the consequences of actions that result when health care providers lack an awareness of the value systems of patients that differ from their own. Described are the principles arising from ethical theory, their application to nursing, and incorporation int...