Suppressed Voices in Inter-Professional Conflicts

by Asma Fazal, M.B.B.S, MRCPI, MHSc   To care for children in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is not easy because in addition to having an emotionally charged environment with high morbidity and mortality, it has a patient population who is not autonomous. Caring for these children in a highly tense environment requires difficult decision-making, which can be ethically challenging at times. These ethical challenges may arise, and vary from lack of interprofessional collaboration, conflicts in values regarding what is the right thing to do in the clinical context, to inter-professional disputes between physicians and other healthcare professionals which leads to moral distress.…
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