Healthcare Professionalism. Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas

Description

Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas provides the tools and resources to help raise professional standards within the healthcare system. Taking an evidence and case-based approach to understanding professionaldilemmas in healthcare, this book examines principles such as applying professional and ethical guidance in practice, as well as raising concerns and making decisions when faced with complex issues that often have no absolute right answer.

Key features include:

• Real-life dilemmas as narrated by hundreds of healthcare students globally
• A wide range of professionalism and inter-professionalism related topics
• Information based on the latest international evidence

Using personal incident narratives to illustrate these dilemmas, as well as regulatory body professionalism standards, Healthcare Professionalism is an invaluable resource for students, healthcare professionals and educators as they explore their own professional codes of behaviour.

Contents

Foreword ix

About the Authors xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Author Contributions xv

1 Introduction 1

2 What is Healthcare Professionalism? 7

3 Teaching and Learning Healthcare Professionalism 31

4 Assessing Healthcare Professionalism 51

5 Identity-related Professionalism Dilemmas 71

6 Consent-related Professionalism Dilemmas 89

7 Patient safety-related Professionalism Dilemmas 109

8 Patient dignity-related Professionalism Dilemmas 127

9 Abuse-related Professionalism Dilemmas 145

10 E-professionalism-related Dilemmas 167

11 Professionalism Dilemmas Across National Cultures 187

12 Professionalism Dilemmas Across Professional Cultures 207

13 Conclusions 227

Afterword: Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas 237

Index

Author Information

Lynn V. Monrouxe is Professor and Director of the Medical Education Research Centre at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.

Charlotte E. Rees is Professor and Director of Health Professions Education and Education Research (HealthPEER), and Director of Curriculum (MBBS), Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.