Ethics Consultation - Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
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Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System

 

Ethics Consultation

Responding to Ethics Questions in Health Care

Throughout our health care system, VA patients and staff face difficult and potentially life-altering decisions every day. In the day-to-day business of health care, uncertainty or conflicts about values that is, ethical concerns — inevitably arise.

Ethics consultation improves health care quality by helping staff members, patients, and families resolve ethical concerns.

In the IE model, ethics consultation services use the CASES approach, which includes the following steps:

Clarify the consultant request

Assemble the relevant information

Synthesize the information

Explain the synthesis

Support the consultation process

Ethics Consultation Co-Chair Nancy Vander Velde, MD
Chief Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Vander Velde

Ethics Consultation Co-Chair Robin Rome
Nurse Practitioner
Rome

In what situations should you consider an Ethics Consult?

  • Consent issues
  • Family conflict regarding patient treatment
  • Medical team differing views regarding treatment

Who can request an Ethics Consult?

  • Employees
  • Volunteers
  • Patients
  • Families of patients

How to request an Ethics Consult:

What to expect after requesting an Ethics Consult:

  • An initial response within 24 business hours
  • phone call from an Ethics Consultative Committee member for additional information
  • A thorough review by the Ethics Consultative Committee utilizing the CASES approach
  • Recommendations

Ethics Consultation Process:

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