Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Their Work's Intersection with Clinical Ethics

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Their Work's Intersection with Clinical Ethics

Weaver MS; Boss RD; Christopher MJ; Gray TF; Harman S; Madrigal VN; Michelson KN; Paquette ET; Pentz RD; Scarlet S; Ulrich CM; Walter JK

Journal of Palliative Medicine

2021

palliative care; ethics; clinical ethics; teamwork; health care ethics

Palliative care (PC) subspecialists and clinical ethics consultants often engage in parallel work, as both function primarily as interprofessional consultancy services called upon in complex clinical scenarios and challenging circumstances. Both practices utilize active listening, goals-based communication, conflict mediation or mitigation, and values explorations as care modalities. In this set of tips created by an interprofessional team of ethicists, intensivists, a surgeon, an attorney, and pediatric and adult PC nurses and physicians, we aim to describe some paradigmatic clinical challenges for which partnership may improve collaborative, comprehensive care.

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