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Published on: February 16, 2011
Emerging Roles of Clinical Ethicists
Jeffrey S Farroni1, Emily Tumilty2, Debjani Mukherjee3
1Associate Professor and Director of the Institutional Ethics Program at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas USA. jsfarroni@utmb.edu.
Abstract:
Debates regarding clinical ethicists' scope of practice are not novel and will continue to evolve. Rapid changes in healthcare delivery, outcomes, and expectations have necessitated flexibility in clinical ethicists' roles whereby hospital-based clinical ethicists are expected to be woven into the institutional fabric in a way that did not exist in more traditional relationships. In this article we discuss three emerging roles: the ethicist embedded in the interdisciplinary team, the ethicist with an expanded educational mandate, and the ethicist as a therapeutic presence in the patient care space. Such expanded capacities offer more robust, positive contributions to institutional culture, stakeholders' relationships, and patient-centered care.
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