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Ethics pocket cards: an educational tool for busy clinicians
Rebecca L Volpe1, Benjamin H Levi2, George F Blackhall3
1Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hersey Medical Center, Hershey, PA USA. rvolpe@hmc.psu.edu.
The Journal of Clinical Ethics
|June 28, 2014
Summary
Clinical ethics committees can proactively address ethical issues using pocket cards. These portable tools standardize education and advance ethics consultation goals, moving beyond reactive problem-solving.
Area of Science:
- Bioethics
- Medical Ethics Education
Background:
- Clinical ethics consultation models are typically reactive, addressing crises after they arise.
- There is a need for proactive strategies to support ethical decision-making in healthcare.
- Institutional ethics committees aim to standardize educational interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the rationale for developing and implementing ethics pocket cards.
- To provide examples of ethics pocket cards created by an institutional committee.
- To initiate a discussion on the broader applications of ethics pocket cards.
Main Methods:
- Development of portable, economical ethics pocket cards.
- Standardization of educational interventions through pocket card distribution.
- Exploration of proactive applications for ethics consultation.
Main Results:
- Ethics pocket cards offer a proactive approach to clinical ethics consultation.
- These cards serve as a tool for standardizing ethics education.
- The pocket cards are portable and economical educational devices.
Conclusions:
- Ethics pocket cards can enhance the proactive function of clinical ethics consultation.
- These cards represent an innovative method for ethics education in healthcare.
- Further dialogue is encouraged regarding the versatile use of ethics pocket cards.
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