Ethics Committee Panel: Slipping Through the Cracks: Ethical Issues in Everyday Practice

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cantor ◽  
Elizabeth Goren ◽  
Karen J. Maroda
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Everyday Practice

Learning Ethics the Hard Way: Facing the Ethics Committee

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Brad Johnson ◽  
Rioh'det Corser
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Evaluation Data ◽  
Ethical Violations ◽  
Active Feedback ◽  
Formal Complaint ◽  
Teaching Professional

This article describes an approach to enhancing the value of case study material in teaching professional ethics in psychology. The mock committee approach involves a series of hearings convened fry students who rotate membership on a class ethics committee. Members of the class participate randomly as psychologists accused of various ethical violations. While the class observes, formal complaint hearings occur that result in official rulings and the setting of appropriate penalties and remedial requirements. The larger class then joins in active feedback and exchange with the committee to highlight and discuss salient ethical issues. We present and discuss student evaluation data for this technique and comment on the potential advantages of this teaching approach.

Ethics Review on Externally- Sponsored Research in Developing Countries

2009 ◽  
pp. 112-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Bagheri
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Sponsored Research ◽  
Poor Countries

This chapter elaborates on some of the existing concerns and ethical issues that may arise when biomedical research protocols are proposed or funded by research institutes (private or public) in developed countries but human subjects are recruited from resource-poor countries. Over the last two decades, clinical research conducted by sponsors and researchers from developed countries to be carried out in developing countries has increased dramatically. The article examines the situations in which vulnerable populations in developing countries are likely to be exploited and/or there is no guarantee of any benefit from the research product, if proven successful, to the local community. By examining the structure and functions of ethics committees in developing countries, the article focuses on the issues which a local ethics committee should take into account when reviewing externally-sponsored research. In conclusion, by emphasizing capacity building for local research ethics committees, the article suggests that assigning the national ethics committee (if one exists) or an ethics committee specifically charged with the task of reviewing externally-sponsored proposals would bring better results in protecting human subjects as well as ensuring benefit-sharing with the local community.

Addressing Ethical Issues in Everyday Practice

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 740-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan R Fleischman ◽  
Lauren K Collogan
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Everyday Practice

Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Ethics Committee: Part One

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Thomasma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Patient Decision Making ◽  
Deontological Ethics ◽  
Ethical Discussion ◽  
Patient Decision

Models of the doctor-patient relationship determine which value will predominate in the interaction of the parties. That value then significantly colors and even sometimers alters the nature of the ethical discussion. For example, if an institution predominately prides it-self on its competitive posture, ethical issues arising therein will necessarily be colored by entrepreurial rather than deontological ethics. By contrast, a physician who underlines patient decision making will tend to place autonomy first above all other principles, casting that relationship in a libertarian tone.

Ethical issues experienced by intensive care unit nurses in everyday practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria ID Fernandes ◽  
Isabel MPB Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Multiple Samples ◽  
Intensive Care Unit Nurses

This research aims to identify the ethical issues perceived by intensive care nurses in their everyday practice. It also aims to understand why these situations were considered an ethical issue and what interventions/strategies have been or are expected to be developed so as to minimize them. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview with 15 nurses working at polyvalent intensive care units in 4 Portuguese hospitals, who were selected by the homogenization of multiple samples. The qualitative content analysis identified end-of-life decisions, privacy, interaction, team work, and health-care access as emerging ethical issues. Personal, team, and institutional aspects emerge as reasons behind the experience of these issues. Personal and team resources are used in and for solving these issues. Moral development and training are the most significant strategies.

Developing a Code of Ethics for Psychiatry: The Australasian Experience

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Pargiter ◽  
Sidney Bloch
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Zealand College ◽  
The Many

The first ever code of ethics of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists was promulgated in 1992. In this paper two of the four members of the College's Ethics Committee (which prepared the document) describe the code's provenance and the procedure used to determine its form and content. The code, a milestone in the College's history, reflects its maturity in confronting the many ethical issues with which psychiatrists have to wrestle in contemporary clinical (and research) practice. We hope that our account will assist them to deal effectively with this pivotal aspect of their professional work.

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