Occupational therapists' ethical reasoning: Assessing student and practitioner responses to ethical dilemmas.
Today's complex and fast-changing healthcare environment is generating concurrent ethical dilemmas that healthcare practitioners must be able to recognize, solve, and act upon accordingly. With the increased focus on ethics in healthcare, greater attention in recent years has been given to ethics ed...
| Published in: | Occupational Therapists' Ethical Reasoning: Assessing Student & Practitioner Responses to Ethical Dilemmas pp. 111 p - 112 |
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| Format: | research Doctoral Dissertation |
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University of Washington
1996
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