Core Competencies For Health Care Ethics Consultation
The report of the Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation has been adopted and was published by ASBH in October, 1998. The report identifies the core competencies that the Task Force identified as necessary for doing health care ethics consultation and is intended for ethics consultants, educational programs that help prepare individuals, teams or committees to do ethics consultations, and all health care organizations that offer ethics consultation services.
The Task Force was formed in 1996 as a joint effort of the SHHV and SBC and was funded by a grant from The Greenwall Foundation and contributions from numerous other organizations, centers and networks. The purpose was to develop standards for health care consultants that provide ethics consultations to patients, health care providers or others.
Co-Directors of the Task Force were Robert Arnold, MD University of Pittsburgh and Stuart Youngner, MD University Hospital, Cleveland. The Task force included 21 scholars in the field of health care ethics, policy and patient care and represented a cross section of professional fields including medicine, nursing, law, philosophy, and religious studies.
The report is a 48 page monograph divided into 5 main sections:
- The Nature and Goals of Ethics Consultation
- Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation
- Organizational Ethics
- The Importance of Evaluation
- Special Obligations of Ethics Consultants and Institutions
The report is available for purchase from ASBH for a single copy price of $12 plus S&H with generous discounts for quantity orders. Please see the Order Form or call ASBH at 847/375-4745.
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