I dont know what to do!: Ethical Dilemmas and Professional Accountability in Healthcare Settings
Tracking # 20-667574
$35.00
What you'll learn
- List the 4 components of the informed consent process.
- Name and describe the 4 bioethical principles used to guide patient/client healthcare choices.
- List 2 empirically supported tools used in client clinical assessment in healthcare settings.
- Apply 2 bioethical practice models to guide patient/client clinicial healthcare decisions.
- Illustrate the 4 decision options available to healthcare decision-makers in F. S. §765, Health Care Advance Directive Act.
Course overview
The ever-changing healthcare treatment environment requires practitioners delivering services to adult, child, and family patients/clients in medical/mental health facilities, to remain a current, updated knowledge base to ensure ethical professional practice and legal compliance with existing laws. This Ethics course updates clinicians working with adults, children and families receiving health and mental health services in 3 major areas: 1) Recent Codes of Ethics (NASW, 2018; AMHCA, 2015, and AAM&FT, 2015) focus heavily on technology and electronic communications between professional and clients. Areas of emphasis include: personal boundaries, safeguards when using electronic communications, documentation, storage, and transfer of records, and practice across legal borders. 2) A new Federal statute, effective January 2018, heightens liability concerns for practitioner websites accessed by clients with visual/auditory limitations. Compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is timely and parallels updated Codes of Ethics concerning use of technology in service delivery. 3) Major changes to Chapter 765, Florida's Health Care Advance Directive Act (October 1, 2015) opens communication between future patients and their appointed representatives, assigns new roles to physicians and hospitals, and, includes for the first time, healthcare surrogate appointments for minors. Course contents combines ethics and bioethics, assessment tools and models to prepare clinicians to quickly identify and target delivery of needed services. The course concludes with a case study illustrating ethical/bioethical dilemmas and models applied during ethical case assessment.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.