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  2. Nursing ethics - Wikipedia

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    For example, a concern to promote beneficence may be expressed in traditional medical ethics by the exercise of paternalism, where the health professional makes a decision based upon a perspective of acting in the patient's best interests. However, it is argued by some that this approach acts against person-centred values found in nursing ...

  3. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    Withholding life-prolonging treatment case country location year summary Baby Doe Law: United States New York: 1983 The parents of a child born with severe birth defects request the right to refuse treatment and keep the child off life support.

  4. Unlicensed assistive personnel - Wikipedia

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    UAPs also provide bedside care—including basic nursing procedures—all under the supervision of a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse or other health care professional. UAPs must demonstrate their ability and competence before gaining any expanded responsibilities in a clinical setting.

  5. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in ...

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    The meeting files, correspondences, and unpublished papers from the commission are currently held in the Bioethics Research Library Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. [2] Multiple government formed organizations continued to fulfill the commission's purposes after its expiration, most specifically the Bioethical Medical ...

  6. Semiprofession - Wikipedia

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    Traditional examples of semiprofessions include social work, journalism, librarianship, teaching and nursing. [1] Such fields often have less clear-cut barriers to entry than traditional professions like law and medicine , and their practitioners often lack the degree of control over their own work that has been traditionally associated with ...

  7. Paraprofessional - Wikipedia

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    Paraprofessional is a title given to individuals in various occupational fields, such as education, librarianship, healthcare, engineering, and law. Historically ...

  8. Primary care ethics - Wikipedia

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    Primary care ethics is not a discipline; it is a notional field of study which is simultaneously an aspect of primary health care and applied ethics. De Zulueta argues that primary care ethics has ‘a definitive place on the ‘ bioethics map’ , represented by a substantial body of empirical research, literary texts and critical discourse (2 ...

  9. Designated Member Review - Wikipedia

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    If full committee review is requested, approval of those research projects may be granted only after review at a convened meeting of a quorum of the IACUC and with the approval vote of a majority of the quorum present.” [3] [4] [7] and Only two protocol review methods fulfill USDA and PHS requirements—full committee and designated member.