Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "Nortje, Nico"
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The benefits of informed non-dissent when families have difficulty making a decision
Nortje, Mila; Haque, Sajid; Nortje, Nico (Université de Montréal, 2022)Being a surrogate decision-maker is challenging for many people and having to decide to withdraw life sustaining therapies can be extremely difficult. Helping surrogates to refocus their decisions on informed non-dissent ... -
Client confidentiality: Perspectives of students in a healthcare training programme
Nortje, Nico; De Jongh, Jo-Celene (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016)BACKGROUND. Confidentiality is an important ethical principle for all health professionals and also has a legal bearing on duty. One of the most difficult issues health professionals face in their daily fieldwork practice ... -
Ethical misconduct by registered physiotherapists in South Africa (2007– 2013): A mixed methods approach
Nortje, Nico; Hoffmann, Willem A (PubMed, 2015)Background: The role of ethics in a medical context is to protect the interests of patients. Thus, it is critically important to understand the guilty verdicts related to professional standard breaches and ethics misconduct ... -
Operational framework for rural hospitals during a pandemic
Nortje, Nico; Jones-Bonofiglio, Kristen; Haque, Sajid (Taylor and Francis, 2021)It is now evident that a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has developed. The unfortunate reality is that those in rural areas may be impacted the hardest. Ethical decision making may look the same for rural areas as ... -
A practical approach to hospital visitation during a pandemic: Responding with compassion to unjustified restrictions
Jones-Bonofiglio, Kristen Dawn; Nortje, Nico; Webster, Laura Bentley (American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 2021)During the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence-based resources have been sought to support decision-making and strategically inform hospitals’ policies, procedures, and practices. While greatly emphasizing protection, most guiding ... -
Professionalism – A case for medical education to honour the societal contract
Nortje, Nico; De Jongh, Jo-Celene (Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2017)BACKGROUND: This study explores the concept of professionalism from the vantage point of a cohort of students as well as professionally qualified and practising occupational therapists. With the changes health care delivery ... -
School tuck shops in South Africa—an ethical appraisal
Nortje, Nico; Faber, Mieke; De Villiers, Anniza (MedPharm Publications, 2017)It can be postulated that schools have an ethical responsibility to protect children from an unhealthy food environment. Against the backdrop of stunting, overweight and micronutrient deficiencies prevalent in South African ... -
Seven year overview (2007-2013) of ethical transgressions by registered healthcare professionals in South Africa
Nortje, Nico; Hoffmann, Willem (AOSIS, 2016)A move has taken place internationally in the delivery and "consumption" of health care where if clients and patients (health care consumers) hold the opinion that the health care professionals/providers' behaviour has ... -
Treating an intervention level 1 patient: futile or brave?
Solomons, Nasheetah; Nortje, Nico (Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2013)An ethical dilemma describes conflicting opinions by different members of the care team. This article focuses on AJ, a five-year-old child with cerebral palsy, who was born deaf and blind as a result of having contracted ...