Health Care Ethics Consultant

  1.    The ability to identify ethical issues coupled with the ability to sensitize others to ethical issues. 2.    The ability to acquire relevant information (e.g., clinical information, psychosocial information) when gaps are revealed,...

In this article I want To elaborate briefly on the knowledge requirements listed in the previous article, it is important to note that these requirements are essentially summary statements. Consider, for example, knowledge requirement number 6 (K6). It is a succinct reference...

 1.      Extensive knowledge not only of the current health care ethics literature, 16 but also of "classic" articles and influential cases in health care ethics. 2.      Extensive knowledge and critical understanding...

the health care ethics consultant must have the following "other sorts of skill:" First, the ethicist should be a skilled participant-observer, able to identify informal social structures and arrangements and to assess his or her developing role in them. Second, the ethicist...

Terrence Ackerman accepts Caplan's general critique of the engineering model of applied ethics, and explicitly endorses the claim that the ethicist must be skilled in the classification and diagnosis of moral problems. Ackerman then adds that the primary role of the ethicist...

     A health care ethics consultant, at a minimum, is a person who helps to identify shared values by engaging others in ethical discourse as facilitator (e.g., mediator, nego-  tiator) or other (e.g., confidant), and assists those who are confronted...

the virtues and traits of character listed in the Profile represent the ideal toward which the ethics consultant must strive. In addition to certain dispositions of the mind, effective ethics consultation requires certain dispositions of the heart, hence, the importance of virtue...