A Code of Ethics for Health Care Ethics Consultants: Journey to the Present and Implications for the Field

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Membership recruitment and training in health care ethics committees: Results from a national pilot survey

“…The older and larger organization, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), was formed in 1998 as an amalgam of three prior bioethics groups, including the original 1969 organization (Moskop 2016, 21). ASBH created a Code of Ethics for consultants (Tarzian, Wocial, and ASBJ Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee 2015) and a task force that published voluntary “competencies” for the ethics consultant (ASBH 1998), an education guide to improve the competencies (ASBH 2009), and an updated set of “core competencies” in 2011 (ASBH 2011). A newer, sister organization formed in 2007, the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD), has concentrated on accreditation of training programs for interested individuals (Spike 2014).…”

The ASBH code of ethics and the limits of professional healthcare ethics consultations

“…In advocating for such a code, Baker repeatedly identifies ‘having a code of ethics’ with ‘professionalization’. The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) echoes this view in their code of ethics for healthcare ethics consultants (HCECs)1 and the subsequent publication in the American Journal of Bioethics 2…”

Disenchantment and clinical ethics

“…the application of ethical analysis within clinical settings with a focus on specific patient cases. Ethics consultation Tarzian et al 2015). The role of consultants is to assess factual information, to analyse the ethical questions, and to evaluate the outcomes of the consultation.…”