• Home healthcare nurse · Jul 2010

    The ethical balancing act of hospice care.

    • Paul D Longenecker.
    • Business & Leadership Studies, Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio, 43560, USA. plongenecker@lourdes.edu
    • Home Healthc Nurse. 2010 Jul 1;28(7):407-13; quiz 413-5.

    AbstractIn providing hospice care, clinicians are confronted with ethical challenges on a daily basis involving their patients and families, their personal values and beliefs, and organizational practices. Being able to objectively understand these ethical challenges and having a plan of action to address is essential in effectively fulfilling the role of being a hospice professional.

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