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85. Case: Adam’s Story
View Case Study: 85. Case: Adam’s StoryAdam Snowdon, a 16 year-old Sydney boy, was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) 18 months ago. The disease has progressed rapidly over the past three months and over this period Adam has quickly begun losing the ability to use his right arm to the point now where it is no longer effectively functional. He…
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77. Case: Accommodating Requests: Which Differences Make a Difference?
View Case Study: 77. Case: Accommodating Requests: Which Differences Make a Difference?Supported Decision Making and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Freya Pedersen is a 23-year-old with a developmental disability. The surgeon is discussing an upcoming surgery with Freya and her parents. Freya tries to express herself, but it is hard to understand her speech. The surgeon is in a rush and just hands the consent…
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65. Case: Conflict in an Ethics Consultation
View Case Study: 65. Case: Conflict in an Ethics ConsultationThe next three cases are from our Advanced Clinical Consultation Workshop facilitated by Paul Hutchinson, Imagined Spaces. These cases were submitted to us from Paul. I find it is often team conflict that can lead to an ethics consult and this will find its way into the consultation space. This can present in a couple…
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62. Case: Formula Feeding Resource Book
View Case Study: 62. Case: Formula Feeding Resource BookAndrew Godwin is a relatively new staff person working for Public Health. He is learning about the WHO Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes and the importance of promoting breastfeeding as a norm in Nova Scotia, as part of the Healthy Eating Strategy. He has received several phone calls from new parents asking him why the…
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60. Case: Health Care Providers Under Quarantine
View Case Study: 60. Case: Health Care Providers Under QuarantineMy story starts in early April, during a routine day shift in our minor care area. A previously well middle-aged man, recently returned from Hong Kong, presented with fever. Because SARS was already recognized and we’d gone through the recent experience of a crash intubation with our first case at Vancouver General, this patient was…
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54. Case: Professional Role
View Case Study: 54. Case: Professional RoleWhile doing a weekday home visit to an elderly patient, a VON nurse in a small community finds the patient’s son at home. The patient has mentioned that her son teaches at the local elementary school, but he has never been present during any of the nurse’s previous visits to the house. On a weekday…
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51. Case: Confidentiality and Privacy
View Case Study: 51. Case: Confidentiality and PrivacyJoanne Baker, a nurse practitioner in a small community, prescribed a partial opiate agonist to a young man, Brian, for treatment of prescription opiate dependence. Brian is talented and plays on the same soccer team as Joanne’s son. Three weeks later, Brian is found unresponsive after an overdose of opiates, requiring intubations and medical evacuation…
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