NSHEN remains committed to providing health ethics resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please visit our Ethics Resource menu for ethics-related items or use our search function at the top of the page.
We are updating this section weekly with new resources for ethics and COVID-19.
NSHEN Newsletter on COVID-19 and Other Resources
Ethics After Hours
New
Apologetical
Radiolab Podcast – NPR
Through today’s sea of sorry-not-sorries, empty apologies, and just straight up non-apologies, we wonder what it looks like to make amends.
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The Bleeding Edge
This eye-opening look at the fast-growing medical device industry reveals how the rush to innovate can lead to devastating consequences for patients.
http://www.nshen.ca/index.php/nshen-after-hours/
Playing God
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Fireside Chat
New
Ethical Issues in Intimate Relationships in Long-Term Care
John O’Keefe, Manager, Social Work, Northwood Inc.
and
Sarah Krieger-Frost, RN, MN. Community Mental Health Nurse
Ethics in Occupational Therapy
with
Jonathan Belbin, Occupational Therapist
Ethics in Health Care Leadership
with
Colin Stevenson, Vice-President – Health Services, Quality and System Performance
Nova Scotia Health Authority
Featured Article Summary
Nurses Experience of Ethical Dilemmas: A Review
“Tho’ Much is Taken, Much Abides”: A Good Life Within Dementia
Poverty – Not a Justification for Banning Physician-Assisted Death
Newsletter
Bioethics Book Club
Book Review
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.
New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health.
Plain Language Definitions – Ethics Health Care Terms
Straightforward Definitions of Terms in Health Ethics
Talking about values and principles in health care ethics can be confusing, especially if some of the words are unfamiliar. NSHEN created a plain language definitions document which have short definitions to help make it clearer what some of the words that we use in ethics work mean.
Case Database Website
We recently updated our Case Database with new cases on a variety of topics.
Check out the case website here
NSHEN Health Ethics Case Database
Ethics NSHA Ethics Support website now available!
Requesting Ethics Support across Nova Scotia Health Authority Zones is now available….
NSHEN has a library of new release fiction and non-fiction books and audiobooks available for reserving.
We have a variety of subjects and authors to choose from.
You can view our complete listing here
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