Ethics in Physical Therapy: A Case Based Approach

by Kirsch, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780071823333
• ISBN10: 0071823336
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-04-09
• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical

Table of Contents

Preface
How to Use This Book
Part One. Ethics for the Physical Therapist
1. Healthcare Ethics
2. Professionalism
3. Ethical Guidance: The Code of Ethics for Physical Therapists and Standards of Ethical Conduct for the Physical Therapist Assistant
4. Ethical Risk Factors
5. Applying Ethical Decision-Making Models in Clinical Practice
Case Example 1: Too Much of a Good Thing
Case Example 2: Stepping Over the Line?
6. The Ethical Challenges of the Future
Part Two. Types of Ethical Decisions: Case Analysis
7. Introduction to Case Analysis
Case Example 3: It’s Not in My Job Description!
8. Accountability
Case 1 Destination Dilemma: Best Interest Determination
Case 2 What Happens in PT, Stays in PT: Patient Confidentiality vs. Professional Duty
Case 3 Sticks and Stones: Patient-Therapist Relationship Challenges
9. Boundary Issues
Case 4 A Family Affair: A Dual Relationship
Case 5 Who Sent Me a Text?: Social Media Boundary Violation
Case 6 Crossing the Professional Chiasm: Power Gradient
10. Practice Issues
Case 7 Can You “See” Me Now?: Workplace Dictating a Service Delivery Model 92
Case 8 Put Me In, Coach: The Complexities of Answering Patient and Employer Expectations Simultaneously
Case 9 Are You the PT for Me?: Self-Assessment to Determine What Is Best for the Patient
11. Professional Relationships
Case 10 Joint Moves: Respect for Interprofessional Practice
Case 11 An Acute Cold Shoulder: Destructive Professional Relationship
Case 12 Homesick: Professional Power Gradient Abuse
12. Professional Responsibility
Case 13 A Passive Protocol: Autonomous Clinical Decision Making
Case 14 Artificial Competence: Assessing Competence and Limitations
Case 15 Alphabet Soup: Protect Patients by Accurate Reporting of Skills
13. Professional Self-Regulation
Case 16 Who Are You?: Responsibility to Report
Case 17 Where Is the Evidence?: Exceeding Responsibility
Case 18 An Education on Staff Behavior: Stopping Poor Practice
14. Supervision
Case 19 Long-Distance Supervision: Inappropriate Supervision
Case 20 Supervision Revision: Supervision Conflict
Case 21 PRN PT or PTA: Resisting Supervision
15. The Student Physical Therapist
Case 22 Student or PT?: Abdication of Supervision
Case 23 The Student Advocate: New Professional Responsibility
Case 24 Project Professional Skills: Inappropriate Professional Behavior
Appendix A: The Code of Ethics for Physical Therapists
Appendix B: Standards of Ethical Conduct for the Physical Therapist Assistant
Appendix C: Ideas to Consider Answers
Appendix D: References
Index