Professional Boundaries in Healthcare 212: Navigating Attraction and Cultivating Safe Practice

Course overview

*Identify the dynamics of transference and counter-transference and explain how each contributes to provider-patient attraction and boundary risk. *Apply evidence-based guidelines for responding to patient attraction, mutual attraction, and provider attraction including documentation, referral, and supervision strategies. *Describe the six factors of safe practice trust, touch, power, provider, communication, and sex and explain how each contributes to a safe clinical environment. *Recognize how the fiduciary nature of the provider-patient relationship obligates the provider to prioritize patient welfare over personal needs in all clinical interactions. *Implement self-awareness strategies to monitor personal attitudes, touch behaviors, and boundary tendencies that may compromise patient safety or professional integrity.