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Patient Advocacy: A Closer Look

Diversity Nursing

Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics. Nurses are often the first and last contact for patients in the healthcare setting.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. And I worry, I’m not sure that appealing to, we haven’t engaged in complete informed consent if we haven’t done this.

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Analysis of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials with Psychedelic Drugs

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Clinical FDA believes that the characteristics of psychedelic drugs present challenges in designing adequate and well-controlled (AWC) clinical studies. For one, the use of an inert placebo may present a challenge.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. Gretchen: Absolutely. And I think it came out of this good space.

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The Nursing Code of Ethics: Everything You Need To Know

Nurse.com

In a 2015 presentation , the ANA explained that the first three provisions of the nursing Code of Ethics address direct patient care and describe the most fundamental values and commitments of the nurse. “You That’s why healthcare ethics is a robust area of scholarly inquiry and why I teach whole classes on it. Using the Code.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

Eric: Well, I feel like just hearing about this case, so on one hand it feels like our healthcare system really only cares about caregivers and family members when decisions need to be made and especially if the patient doesn’t have capacity, or we’re now talking about discharge. Eric: Yeah. I love the idea of both the context.

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Wash. Federal Judge Pokes Hole in New Wave of Vaccine Mandate Challenges

Healthcare Law Insights blog

In August 2023, a new crop of cases began appearing in federal courts, this time challenging public or private healthcare employer mandates under the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process and equal protection clauses, certain federal statutes, and numerous other purported “laws.” Carberry , or another member of our Healthcare Litigation team.