RESOURCES ABOUT ETHICS COMMITTEES:

Their Purpose, Creation and Operation

 

 

Audio and Printable Resources

Ethics Committee Handbook (2008), by Rosemary Flanigan, PhD

Blog: Code of Ethics Now Available for Healthcare Ethics Consultants

Blog: Strengthening Hospital Ethics Committees

Hospital Ethics Committees: Then and Now, with Rosemary Flanigan, PhD (2011)

A Status Report on Clinical Ethics and Hospital Ethics Committees MP3

Measuring Impact of Hospital Ethics Committees MP3

Formation and Evolution of Hospital Ethics Committees and the Kansas City Regional Hospital Ethics Committee, by Rosemary Flanigan, PhD
 
The Kansas City Regional Hospital Ethics Consortium 25th Anniversary: Evolution, Contributions and Future Directions, with Hans Uffelman, Myra Christopher, Rosemary Flanigan, and David Waxse

Revising Ethics Policies and Handbook at the University of Kansas Hospital, with Kathy Davis, PhD, MSEd and Terry Rosell, DMin, PhD

 

Articles from Bioethics Forum, Fall 1994, Volume 10

Clinical Ethics and Ethics Committees, by William G. Bartholome

To Feed or Not to Tube Feed: The Case of Jennie M.

Integrated Ethics Programs: A New Mission for Ethics Committees, by Myra J. Christopher
 
Ethical Decision Making in Managed Care Environments, by Judith Wilson Ross
 
Ethics Committees and Resource Allocation, by John D. Lantos
 
Learning to “Read/Hear”: Narrative Ethics and Ethics Committee Education, by Robert Lyman Potter
 
Consultectonics: Ethics Committee Case Consultation as Mediation, by Don F. Reynolds
 
The Voices of Nurses on Ethics Committees, by Cindy Hylton Rushton

Nurses’ Perspectives of Hospital Ethics Committees, by Holly A. Stadler, John M. Morrissey, Joycelyn E. Tucker, Julie A. Paige, Jo E. McWilliams, Denise Kay and Brian Williams-Rice.

Education of Ethics Committees, by David C. Thomasma
 
The Importance of Process in Ethical Decision Making, by Barbara C. Thornton

The Role of Ethics Committees in Responding to the Moral Outrage of Unrelieved Pain, Betty R. Ferrell