When Is It Justifiable for an Inexperienced but Licensed Clinician to Perform a High-Risk but Low-Frequency Procedure on a Patient in a Prehospital Setting?
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Abstract
In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made in short periods of time and be within their scope of practice, procedural skill set, and appropriate to their training and preparation. This commentary on a case offers a just culture approach to learning, especially after sentinel events.
期刊介绍:
The AMA Journal of Ethics exists to help medical students, physicians and all health care professionals navigate ethical decisions in service to patients and society. The journal publishes cases and expert commentary, medical education articles, policy discussions, peer-reviewed articles for journal-based and audio CME, visuals, and more. Since its inception as an editorially-independent journal, we promote ethics inquiry as a public good.