Cultivating quality awareness in corona times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21702664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guus Timmerman (0000-0001-8956-650X, Associated Press, corresponding author), Andries Baart (0000-0002-6328-3971, Heidelberg University), Jan den Bakker |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-204 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medicine Health Care and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-7423 • E-ISSN: 1572-8633 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11019-021-10010-x |
| PMID | 33788079 |
| OpenAlex | W3148644034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy for those who have been hard hit worldwide. At the same time, it is also a test of concepts and practices of what good care is and requires, and how quality of care can be accounted for. In this paper, we present our Care-Ethical Model of Quality Enquiry (CEMQUE) and apply it to the case of residential care for older people in the Netherlands during the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of thinking about care in healthcare and social welfare as a set of separate care acts, we think about care as a complex practice of relational caring, crossed by other practices. Instead of thinking about professional caregivers as functionaries obeying external rules, we think about them as practically wise professionals. Instead of thinking about developing external quality criteria and systems, we think about cultivating (self-)reflective quality awareness. Instead of abstracting from societal forces that make care possible but also limit it, we acknowledge them and find ways to deal with them. Based on these critical insights, the CEMQUE model can be helpful to describe, interrogate, evaluate, and improve existing care practices. It has four entries: (i) the care receiver considered from their humanness, (ii) the caregiver considered from their solicitude, (iii) the care facility considered from its habitability and (iv) the societal, institutional and scholarly context considered from the perspective of the good life, justice and decency. The crux is enabling all these different entries with all their different aspects to be taken into account. In Corona times this turns out to be more crucial than ever
Alternative medicine · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Health care · Philosophy of medicine · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Psychology
Medical Nemesis
The Logic of Care
Narrative Medicine
The Performance Paradox in the Public Sector
Tackling the problem of regulatory pressure in Dutch elderly care
Digging into care practices
Accountability from Somewhere and for Someone
Careworkers don't have a voice
Narrative accountability and quality awareness
Centring Care
Caring for or caring with?Production of different caring relationships and the construction of time
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |