Medical Decision-Making: Building Your Case for Informed Consent or Refusal

Course overview

Medical decisions can be life altering. There are few guarantees that today's best decision will create tomorrow's ideal outcome. Yet, Guardians may be held accountable for the choices we make on behalf of clients or loved ones. And, most importantly, we want to make the right decisions for the health and well-being of people who need our support. In this 3-hour workshop, Dr. Heather Connors shares best practices and some powerful decision-making tools for due diligence that leads to the best possible medical decisions. Participants will learn from case stories and skill practice activities: 1. What is expected of you by courts, clients, and families 2. How to gather needed information from providers, clients and additional resources 3. A 6-step process for fully analyzing the situation, options and expected results 4. How to create powerful documentation for annual reporting and for explaining your work