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Advance Care Planning , Humans , Medicare , Primary Health Care , United States , WorkflowABSTRACT
This symposium includes twelve personal narratives from individuals and teams who have been engaged in community-academic partnerships in research and public health. This issue also includes four commentaries on these narratives by experts in patient and research subject advocacy, healthcare and biomedical ethics, social science, and health education funding. While much has been written about community-academic partnerships, what appears in the literature does not include in-depth, personal reflection on the challenges and obstacles faced in these partnerships. With this symposium, we aim to stimulate reflection and discussion about creative approaches to community-academic partnerships in order to guide those who are both new to and experienced in community-engaged work.
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Community Participation , Community-Based Participatory Research , Cooperative Behavior , Public Health , Research , Bioethics , Humans , Research Personnel , Residence Characteristics , Schools , Social SciencesABSTRACT
Doing bioethics in the public arena of healthcare, government, business or academia takes courage and stamina. The effort involved must be greater than just supporting clients through disciplined arguments and an ongoing process of clarification. Beyond the argument, for ethicists to be of value, they must understand the importance of navigating power structures within the bioethics ecosystem and to recognize their own professional naiveté.
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Bioethics , Ethicists , Power, Psychological , Academic Medical Centers/organization & administration , HumansABSTRACT
Problem-based learning (PBL) seeks to engage students in an active process of individual and cooperative learning of interrelated themes. As applied, it has been shown to develop better reasoning processes, critical thinking, communication skills, and an increased motivation to learn. A PBL learning modality, with a unique content approach, was incorporated into an introductory healthcare delivery systems course geared toward freshman and sophomore students. The students were engaged in groups to work on real-world problems faced by the healthcare system under conditions that assure both positive interdependence and individual accountability.
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Hospital Administration/education , Problem-Based Learning , Female , Health Care Surveys , Health Services Administration , Humans , Indiana , Male , United StatesABSTRACT
In times of workforce shortages and increasing pressures to compete, health care organizations need to advance and ameliorate their resources to ensure organizational success. Other industries have maximized empowerment initiatives as a strategy to retain and develop employees as primary stakeholders of its mission. While the notion of employee empowerment is by itself noble, for it to succeed, health care organizations must promote a culture of psychological safety to ensure a genuine commitment exists in its mission and strategies.
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Decision Making, Organizational , Organizational Culture , Personnel, Hospital/psychology , Power, Psychological , Admitting Department, Hospital/organization & administration , Humans , Job Satisfaction , Management Quality Circles , Models, Organizational , Occupational Health , Organizational Case Studies , Personnel Loyalty , Staff Development , United States , Workforce , Workplace/psychologyABSTRACT
This analysis examines what is currently known about the financial efficacy of mental health services in relation to the cost offset effect in health care. Moreover, it suggests that the provision of mental health services should be intertwined with cost offset strategies in regard to its practice, research, and promotion. In doing so, policy decisions and ethical practices of care concerning mental health care delivery may be shaped within an adequate cost structure.
