Ethics for Everyone: A Practical Guide to Interdisciplinary Biomedical Ethics Education (J-B AHA Press)

The author describes an implementation strategy for establishing a hospitalwide ethics program and offers sample cases, ethics education activities, and materials that can be used in ethics education programs for a variety of audiences.

LINDA C. GRAFIUS, has worked in the fields of health care, education, and biomedical ethics for many years. She served as the administrative director of educational services at St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, where she was responsible for overseeing in-service and nursing education, community programs, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first-aid courses, continuing medical education for physicians, the speakers' bureau, and audiovisual and media services. Dr. Grafius serves on the medical center's ethics committee and, in 1991, was instrumental in the development and implementation of an ethics grand rounds program. The St. Mary Medical Center model for grand rounds was subsequently adopted by several other hospitals in the Franciscan Health System.Before joining the staff at St. Mary Medical Center, Dr. Grafius was patient and guest relations coordinator at Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and director of mental retardation services and coordinator of hospice and bereavement counseling services at the Lenape Valley Foundation, which is also located in Doylestown.Dr. Grafius received her doctorate in health education from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she was awarded the Sarah Leeds Miller Doctoral Award for outstanding scholarship and service in university and community activities. She has served on the local board of directors for the American Heart Association and the Special Olympics and is a past president of the Southwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Society for Healthcare Education and Training (ASHET).