For more information, please contact Basil Rowland at Basil.Rowland@va.gov or Robin Cook at Slide 5 Announcements It has come to our attention, with many people taking – – leave for summer vacations, that ECCs may not realize it is their responsibility to arrange for coverage if there is an ethics concern or ethics conflict while they are away. Please make sure your phone and email out of office messages include contact information to whoever is covering for you while you are out of the office. Slide 6 Focus Topic Ethics Consultation Coaching Call It is my pleasure to – – – introduce Dr. David Alfandre who will be leading this call. Dr. Alfandre is a Health Care Ethicist here at the National Center and a hospitalist here at NY Harbor HCS. Welcome Dr. Alfandre. Please note there are three items under the paper clip which will also be available in the summary for this call: the slides, the case we will be discussing and a VHA Privacy fact sheet. Slide 7 Key Elements in an Ethics Case Consultation The key elements of an – – ethics case consultation include: Ethics Question The ethics question focuses the consultation response. – Consultation-Specific Information The consultation-specific information informs – the ethical analysis. Ethical Analysis The ethical analysis provides justification for the conclusions – and/or recommendations Conclusions and/or Recommendations The conclusions and/or – recommendations promote ethical practices Slide 8 Questions? – Now I’d like to open it up for comments and questions. Please do not hesitate to speak up. Thank you everyone for those questions & comments. We will have a summary of the call up on the website in a short while for you to review as needed. Slide 9 - Please remember, that like the rest of my New York colleagues, my door, my email, and my phone (212-951-5477) are always open to hear from you. The next EC Improvement Forum call will be on August 28th, 2017 on topic of Informed Consent. See you then. Take care and thank you for everything you do to deliver excellent care to our – Veterans.
For more information, please contact Basil Rowland at Basil.Rowland@va.gov or Robin Cook at Slide 5 – Announcements – It has come to our attention, with many people taking leave for summer vacations, that ECCs may not realize it is their responsibility to arrange for coverage if there is an ethics concern or ethics conflict while they are away. Please make sure your phone and email out of office messages include contact information to whoever is covering for you while you are out of the office. Slide 6 – Focus Topic – Ethics Consultation Coaching Call – It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. David Alfandre who will be leading this call. Dr. Alfandre is a Health Care Ethicist here at the National Center and a hospitalist here at NY Harbor HCS. Welcome Dr. Alfandre. Please note there are three items under the paper clip which will also be available in the summary for this call: the slides, the case we will be discussing and a VHA Privacy fact sheet. Slide 7 – Key Elements in an Ethics Case Consultation – The key elements of an ethics case consultation include: Ethics Question – The ethics question focuses the consultation response. Consultation-Specific Information – The consultation-specific information informs the ethical analysis. Ethical Analysis – The ethical analysis provides justification for the conclusions and/or recommendations Conclusions and/or Recommendations – The conclusions and/or recommendations promote ethical practices Slide 8 – Questions? Now I’d like to open it up for comments and questions. Please do not hesitate to speak up. Thank you everyone for those questions & comments. We will have a summary of the call up on the website in a short while for you to review as needed. Slide 9 - Please remember, that like the rest of my New York colleagues, my door, my email, and my phone (212-951-5477) are always open to hear from you. The next EC Improvement Forum call will be on August 28th, 2017 on topic of Informed Consent. See you then. Take care – and thank you for everything you do to deliver excellent care to our Veterans.
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