Handout 4.6 Instructions Describe the 5 core elements of your data collection plan and be prepared to share your thinking with the rest of the group. You should base your plan on the information in the chart below and on other handouts and notes you may have taken during this session. ETHICS ISSUE 2: Professionalism in Patient Care—Truth Telling 2. Ethical 3. Ethical 4. Best Ethics Practice Standard Source(s) Standard 1. Ethics Issue “Should” Description(s) with Exclusions The quality manager VHA Handbook There is an Adverse events that for surgical services 1004.08 Disclosure of unwavering ethical cause harm to found a number of Adverse Events to obligation to disclose patients on surgical instances where Patients to patients harmful services should be adverse events that adverse events that disclosed to the caused harm that have been sustained patient or personal should have been in the course of care, representative [un disclosed to the including cases where less patient is patient or personal the harm may not be deceased, representative were obvious, or where incapacitated, or not disclosed. there is potential for otherwise unable to harm to occur in the take part in the future. process, and there is no personal representative]. Exclusion(s): MODULE 2 MODULE 3
Handout 4.6 Instructions Describe the 5 core elements of your data collection plan and be prepared to share your thinking with the rest of the group. You should base your plan on the information in the chart below and on other handouts and notes you may have taken during this session. ETHICS ISSUE 2: Professionalism in Patient Care—Truth Telling 1. Ethics Issue 2. Ethical Standard Source(s) 3. Ethical Standard Description(s) with Exclusions 4. Best Ethics Practice “Should” The quality manager for surgical services found a number of instances where adverse events that caused harm that should have been disclosed to the patient or personal representative were not disclosed. VHA Handbook 1004.08 Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients There is an unwavering ethical obligation to disclose to patients harmful adverse events that have been sustained in the course of care, including cases where the harm may not be obvious, or where there is potential for harm to occur in the future. Exclusion(s): Adverse events that cause harm to patients on surgical services should be disclosed to the patient or personal representative [un less patient is deceased, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to take part in the process, and there is no personal representative]. MODULE 2 MODULE 3
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