The main question examined is: How do nurses and other healthcare professionals ensure ethical interprofessional collaboration-in-practice as an everyday practice actuality? Ethical interprofessional collaboration becomes especially relevant and necessary when interprofessional practice decisions are contested. To illustrate, two healthcare scenarios are analyzed through three ethics lenses. Bi...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess the current status of ethics education in obstetrics-gynecology residency programs. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional, web-based survey was designed in conjunction with a professional survey laboratory at the University of Chicago. The survey was piloted with a convenience sample of clinical medical ethics fellows to assess question content and ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the function of the new system of review by multicentre research ethics committees and to highlight areas where improvement is still needed. DESIGN Prospectively collected data from a multicentre study was examined with respect to the ethics review process. Administrative, financial, and time elements of the review process were audited. SETTING A single multicentre resea...

primordial nature, is the basis of islamic anthropology. according to the principles of transcendental philosophy could provide a tenable explanation of the nature. the nature in its specific sense is insight and tendencies of human nature. primordial nature can be regarded in terms of both ontological and epistemological notions. the nature in general epistemology could be defensible on the ba...

Bioethics, clinical ethics, and professional ethics are mature, welldeveloped fields of applied ethics that focus on medical research, patient autonomy and patient care, patient– healthcare professional relationships, and issues that arise in clinical and other medical settings. However, despite these developments, little attention has been paid to the organizational aspects of healthcare in th...

BACKGROUND Ethics committees and their system of research protocol peer-review are currently used worldwide. To ensure an international standard for research ethics and safety, however, data is needed on the quality and function of each nation's ethics committees. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and developments of ethics committees established at medical schools a...

applying professional values is an important issue in nursing practice. it is also crucial to find out nurses' perspectives toward ethical and professional values in the clinical environment. for this purpose, we aimed to utilize a standard tool to survey perspectives on applying these values in nursing care in hospitals of isfahan, iran. this is a descriptive-analytical study in which 150 nurs...

to understand the traditional description of medicine as a practice of healing, it is necessary to examine its relationships with both science and ethics. the “scientific” component of medicine includes an acknowledgment of the influence of social, cultural and environmental factors on the functioning of the organism. the “ethical” component is often presented as merely supplementary but actual...