What is it about?
Ethical decision-making in prehospital services is a daily challenge. This paper explain the experiences of Iranian prehospital emergency personnel in the field of ethical decision-making.
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Why is it important?
Due to the stressful nature of prehospital emergency providers’ duties, as well as difficulties such as distance to information resources and insufficient time to analyze situations, ethical decision-making in prehospital services is a daily challenge.
Perspectives
I hope this article helps prehospital providers make ethical decisions based on the patients’ benefit, they also consider consequences of their decisions in dealing with personal and professional threats. This article identifies and describes a number of ethical values of prehospital providers and discusses how the values may be considered by paramedics when facing ethical conflicts.
Professor Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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This page is a summary of: Ethical decision-making based on field assessment: The experiences of prehospital personnel, Nursing Ethics, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0969733017736925.
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