Healthcare Professionalism
Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas
1. Edition April 2017
272 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas provides the tools and resources to help raise professional standards within the healthcare system. Taking an evidence and case-based approach to understanding professional dilemmas in healthcare, this book examines principles such as applying professional and ethical guidance in practice, as well as raising concerns and making decisions when faced with complex issues that often have no absolute right answer.
Key features include:
* Real-life dilemmas as narrated by hundreds of healthcare students globally
* A wide range of professionalism and inter-professionalism related topics
* Information based on the latest international evidence
Using personal incident narratives to illustrate these dilemmas, as well as regulatory body professionalism standards, Healthcare Professionalism is an invaluable resource for students, healthcare professionals and educators as they explore their own professional codes of behaviour.
About the Authors xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Author Contributions xv
1 Introduction 1
2 What is Healthcare Professionalism? 7
3 Teaching and Learning Healthcare Professionalism 31
4 Assessing Healthcare Professionalism 51
5 Identity-related Professionalism Dilemmas 71
6 Consent-related Professionalism Dilemmas 89
7 Patient safety-related Professionalism Dilemmas 109
8 Patient dignity-related Professionalism Dilemmas 127
9 Abuse-related Professionalism Dilemmas 145
10 E-professionalism-related Dilemmas 167
11 Professionalism Dilemmas Across National Cultures 187
12 Professionalism Dilemmas Across Professional Cultures 207
13 Conclusions 227
Afterword: Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas 237
Index 000
'This book explores important professionalism dilemmas, including patient safety errors, consent and confidentiality ... The chapters include thought-provoking narratives on personal incidents and case studies that clearly link theory with practice. Detailed referencing provides an evidence-based, robust approach to tackling professionalism dilemmas.' - Surgeons' News, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
"This book presents a valuable and realistic structure for teaching and learning how to become and develop as professional in any healthcare discipline. The usefulness of this book lies in the approach to guiding and developing the student's professional identify and the educator's teaching strategies to promote corrective actions based on reflections shaped by professional dilemmas founded on failures of professionals in various healthcare disciplines" Linda S. Hansen, MSN, RN, Michigan State University College of Nursing on behalf of Doody's Aug 17
'The key strength of this book is that it continually links the theory of professionalism to the reality of day-to-day practice ... the authors do an excellent job of exposing the commonalities and differences in the perspectives of the various health care professions.' Anesthesia and Analgesia
Lynn V. Monrouxe is Professor and Director of the Medical Education Research Centre at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Charlotte E. Rees is Professor and Director of Health Professions Education
and Education Research (HealthPEER), and Director of Curriculum (MBBS), Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
