title: Creating a forum for ethical decisionmaking.
abstract: The Central Florida Visiting Nurse Association created a multidisciplinary forum to help home care clinicians address tough ethical issues and other topics of concern. One tool that this group created, the Patient Care Contract, is a primary factor in this forum's success.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abbadessa
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D003284:Contract Services / Q000592:standards; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017041:Ethics Committees; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005431:Florida; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations