Stewardship

Stewardship is the obligation to manage resources, and particularly public resources, in a responsible and effective manner......
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Treatment of patients

In health care, organizational values are explicitly or implicitly focused on outcomes for patients and families.  One reason for this is because providing care for patients and families is the reason that health care organizations exist....
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Consistency

Consistency is the value of treating similar situations similarly, and it lies at the heart of the commitment to justice....
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Complementary and alternative therapies

Complementary and alternative therapies are a range of treatments and approaches that are currently viewed as being outside the purview of conventional or allopathic health care providers. ...
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Treatment of staff

One of the features that can distinguish organizational ethics consultations from clinical ethics consultations is the fact that relationships between the organization and staff are much more likely to arise in organizational ethics consultations....
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Capacity

Capacity refers to the ability to understand health care information and make health care decisions (and is sometimes used interchangeably with competence in colloquial discussion, although there is a legal distinction whereby competence is a more global property).  ...
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Bedside allocation

Bedside allocation occurs when health care providers make decisions about how to distribute health resources (including provider time, treatment, and devices) while providing care to a particular patient (as opposed to health care rationing that occurs at other locations within the health care system, such as senior leadership tables, boardrooms, and caucus meetings)....
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All hazards response plan

An all hazards response plan provides a consistent approach to a range of emergency situations, including terrorism, disease outbreak, natural disaster, and mass casualty situations....
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