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Ethical guidelines for treating trauma survivors can provide professionals direction to enhance their efforts. Trauma survivors have unique needs and vary in their resilience, post-traumatic growth, and negative and positive outcomes from their experiences. Numerous ethical guidelines can inform a trauma-informed care (TIC) approach. [1]
The term trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC) was first used by Browne and colleagues in 2014, in the context of developing strategies for primary health care organizations. [13] In 2016, the Canadian Department of Justice published "Trauma- (and violence-) informed approaches to supporting victims of violence: Policy and practice ...
Moral patienthood [1] (also called moral patience, [2] moral patiency, [3] and moral status [4] [5]) is the state of being eligible for moral consideration by a moral agent. [4] In other words, the morality of an action can depend on how it affects or relates to moral patients.
Vicarious trauma, conceptually based in constructivism, [12] [13] [14] arises from interaction between individuals and their situations. A helper's personal history (including prior traumatic experiences), coping strategies, support network, and other things interact with his or her situation (including work setting, nature of the work, and clientele served) and may trigger vicarious trauma.
In the healthcare literature, moral injury is the accumulation of negative effects by continued exposure to morally distressing situations. [31] In 2000 the concept of moral distress being generated by systemic issues was called "the ethical canary" [32] to draw attention to the sensation of moral distress signaling a need for systemic change.
[6] [7] Bryan Bledsoe, a physician and outspoken critic of the golden hour and other controversial medical topics, such as critical incident stress management, has said that the peer-reviewed medical literature does not demonstrate any "magical time" for saving critical patients. [8] There are different critical periods for different injuries. [9]
This indirect form of trauma exposure differs from experiencing trauma oneself. [1] Compassion fatigue is considered to be the result of working directly with victims of disasters, trauma, or illness, especially in the health care industry. [6] Individuals working in other helping professions are also at risk for experiencing compassion fatigue ...
Rapid trauma assessment is a method most commonly used by emergency medical services to identify hidden and obvious injuries in a trauma victim. [1] The goal is to identify and treat immediate threats to life that may not have been obvious during an initial assessment.