Healthcare Ethics in Action

Session 1: Healthcare Ethics in Action

February 20 | 12:00-1:00 PM CST
Program Overview:  This highly interaction session will utilize a series of case studies to demonstrate practical methods of identifying, analyzing and resolving difficult ethical issues that emerge in a variety of healthcare settings. After discussing the basic process of doing clinical ethics, we will apply that process to some of the most common moral problems that healthcare providers are likely to face including the need to balance respect for autonomy against the desire to secure good outcomes for the individuals whom we serve. We will pay special attention to the role that surveyors and surveying agencies can play when interacting around these issues with providers. 

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Session 2: Ethics of Confidentiality

March 20 | 12:00-1:00 PM CST
Program Overview:  

This interactive webinar will review ethical issues that arise in the provision of developmental services, mental health services, and substance abuse services specifically as they relate to the ethical limits of confidentiality.  Topics will include the theoretical basis for confidentiality claims, confidentiality and the duty to warn, and confidentiality and dual relationships.  After a general discussion of the concept of clinical privacy, specific case studies will be used to examine specific difficult challenges. 

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Session 3: Workplace Ethics in Healthcare

April 17 | 12:00-1:00 PM CST

Does the administration of a healthcare community have an ethical obligation to protect its employees from racially offensive comments made by residents?  Does a staff member have an ethical obligation to continue to provide care to an individual with dementia who recurrently gropes providers?  These questions, and many others like them, compel us to examine not only the legal aspects of maintaining safe and supportive work environments, but also the ethical implications of dealing with individuals, some of whom might be acting secondary to mental illness or dementia, who engage in offensive or dangerous behavior.  This seminar is designed to assist attendees in identifying and managing these types of ethical issues as they present in the long term care environment.  The session will be highly interactive, and it will begin by considering the concepts of harassment and hostile work environments.  After discussing the moral complexities of this topic on a general level, we will then consider specific applications involving offensive or dangerous resident behavior.

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