scholarly journals Delivering on the promise of co-design – staying true to the consumer voice in delivering value-based health care.

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Lucille Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Consumer Voice

scholarly journals The ethical dilemmas of nursing

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Janie Mason
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Health Consumer ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Consumer Voice

OVER RECENT DECADES, the health consumer voice has risen in significance and receives considerable space in the popular media. No longer are patients, relatives of patients or ordinary citizens just silent witnesses to how services for health and illness are structured and managed. Health and illness care can no longer be regarded as solely the province of the industry, its professionals, managers and bureaucrats. Megan-Jane Johnstone?s new, fourth edition of her popular Bioethics ? a nursing perspective is therefore timely. It is up-to-date in the changing and demanding political economy of the Australian health care system and current in its bioethical discourse. This is an essential text for nurses, who comprise the biggest component of carers in the industry and are the only practitioners providing immediate face-to-face, twenty-four hour care. Now, more than ever before, nurses must be aware of the bioethical implications of their actions, decisions and non-decisions.

Malpractice & Negligence: Cal. Supreme Court Clarifies Negligence Provisions under State’s Elder Abuse Act

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-203
Author(s):  
Kendra Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Skilled Nursing Facility ◽  
Pressure Sores ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Nursing Facility ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of California held, in Delaney v. Baker, 82 Cal. Rptr. 2d 610 (1999), that the heightened remedies available under the Elder Abuse Act (Act), Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 15657,15657.2 (West 1998), apply to health care providers who engage in reckless neglect of an elder adult. The court interpreted two sections of the Act: (1) section 15657, which provides for enhanced remedies for reckless neglect; and (2) section 15657.2, which limits recovery for actions based on “professional negligence.” The court held that reckless neglect is distinct from professional negligence and therefore the restrictions on remedies against health care providers for professional negligence are inapplicable.Kay Delaney sued Meadowood, a skilled nursing facility (SNF), after a resident, her mother, died. Evidence at trial indicated that Rose Wallien, the decedent, was left lying in her own urine and feces for extended periods of time and had stage I11 and IV pressure sores on her ankles, feet, and buttocks at the time of her death.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

Older Americans' access to oral health care

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 637-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
TA Dolan ◽  
CR Corey ◽  
HE Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Oral Health Care ◽  
Older Americans
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