Ethics, Evidence And Clinical Decision Making

Course overview

This course was designed to fill the information void on ethical decision making for individuals with dysphagia. When striving for autonomy and the push for clinical beneficence clash, service providers need sound advice based on current best practice. Participants will learn a comprehensive model of medical ethics that can be successfully applied to their practice to better manage complex cases. Values, morals and professional codes related to a variety of challenging situations that often occur in everyday practice will be examined and discussed. Situations involving informed consent, patient refusal, treatment options including oral vs non-oral feeding, and when and how to terminate services will be addressed. The need to maintain robust and clinically relevant records and specific documentation suggestions to achieve this will also be discussed.