Nancy Kirsch

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Rutgers · Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions

Decisions that occur at the end of life are complicated, involving the patient, family, and the healthcare providers. The multiple needs of the patient at the end of life often require the involvement of multiple disciplines. These healthcare providers are part of a multidisciplinary team whose roles on the team have been evolving. End-of-life issu...

Abuse of the elderly is a relatively new phenomenon, at least in terms of the dialogue becoming public. It is not as easy as child abuse to recognize and it takes a variety of forms including overt physical abuse, self-abuse, neglect, verbal abuse, and emotional behavior. There are several evaluation assessments. Not all of them are effective, and...

Health care providers (HCP) have a fiduciary responsibility to their patients/clients to provide information that is substantiated within the evidence based literature. They should make every effort to make decisions and provide facts that are free of personal bias and opinion so patients can make autonomous decisions about their health care based...

Older adults have not been consistently included in research studies, and this has had a profound effect on the generalizability of research findings to this population. The difficulty of including older adults often arises in obtaining informed consent when the individual might not have the capacity to provide that consent. Providing a research fo...

There is more awareness of ethical challenges facing practitioners in the healthcare environment. Rehabilitation professionals find themselves on the forefront of many of the ethical situations that arise. The ethical decision-making skills are often in the nascent stages for many allied healthcare practitioners. An understanding of the terminology...

Ethical decision making is a challenge to professionals, with an increase in the number of issues and situations that are increasingly complicated. Ethical decision-making skills are enhanced by studying cases and developing a strategy to face ethical issues. Practitioners do not always have complete control over the situations that confront them....