National Bayside Hospital ( Nbh ) Essay - 1428 Words

National Bayside Hospital (NBH), a Level I Trauma Center and top-rated surgical hospital in Texas, established the need for an ethics committee early in our quest to become a designated trauma facility. Our ethics committee has been very instrumental in the decision making process as our reputation has grown as a receiving health care system, caring for complex and challenging cases from a five-county area. NBH’s present ethics committee is made up of a multi-disciplinary team who assist us primarily with end-of-life conflicts and policy, education on clinical ethical issues, assisting in formulating policy surrounding clinical ethical issues, brain death and decisions on complicated cases and subsequent policy changes (Annas, Grodin, 2016). Our ethics committee can also be called upon for organ transplant conflicts, disagreements between patients, families and clinical teams, especially when the dispute can become harmful to the patient (Annas, Grodin, 2016). The members of the ethics committee for NBH have been called together to consult on a difficult case involving two brothers, who were involved in a motor vehicle accident. One brother requires a lung transplant from the other brother who, as a result of the accident, is now a paraplegic. The ethics committee members consulting on this case will be the hospital Chaplain, Joseph Small, an ordained Luthern minister who has been with NBH for the past fifteen years and has sat on the ethics committee five times during