Are Workarounds Ethical?: Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems

by Nancy Berlinger

How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff are pressured to improvise, fix structural problems, or comply with competing policies, the uncertainty and distress they experience have potential consequences for patients, families, colleagues, and the system itself. This book presents a new theory of health care ethics that is grounded in the nature of health care work and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190269294
• ISBN13: 9780190269296
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"