Hospital executives and ethics committees: an effective collaboration.
Should hospital and healthcare executives participate on their organization's ethics committee? This question becomes more relevant in the current healthcare environment as nurses and physicians assume more managerial responsibilities. This article reviews functions of the ethics committee and discusses moral, conceptual, and practical issues surrounding managerial participation on these committees. The authors conclude that executive management's participation on ethics committees is both appropriate and necessary in the current healthcare environment.
Hilliard
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BB
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
Coffey
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BS
Johnson
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RB
D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017041:Ethics Committees; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology