Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas

Healthcare Professionalism: Improving Practice through Reflections on Workplace Dilemmas provides the tools and resources to help raise professional standards within the healthcare system. Taking an evidence and case–based approach to understanding professional dilemmas in healthcare, this book examines principles such as applying professional and ethical guidance in practice, as well as raising concerns and making decisions when faced with complex issues that often have no absolute right answer.

Key features include:

Using personal incident narratives to illustrate these dilemmas, as well as regulatory body professionalism standards, Healthcare Professionalism is an invaluable resource for students, healthcare professionals and educators as they explore their own professional codes of behaviour.

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Author Contributions

1. Introduction

2. What is healthcare professionalism?

3. Teaching and learning healthcare professionalism

4. Assessing healthcare professionalism

5. Identity–related professionalism dilemmas

6. Consent–related professionalism dilemmas

7. Patient safety–related professionalism dilemmas

8. Patient dignity–related professionalism dilemmas

9. Abuse–related professionalism dilemmas

10. E–professionalism–related dilemmas

11. Professionalism dilemmas across national cultures

12. Professionalism dilemmas across professional cultures

13. Conclusions

Afterword

Index

Lynn V. Monrouxe is Professor and Director of the Medical Education Research Centre at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.

Charlotte E. Rees is Professor and Director of Health Professions Education and Education Research (HealthPEER), and Director of Curriculum (MBBS), Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.