Course Code: REL-ACU-0-NEEDD
Hours: 1.5
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Identify how to determine decision-making ability in borderline cases.
Recall the nurse’s legal and moral responsibility in ensuring informed consent and the four factors needed for an informed decision.
Recognize moral distress, its causes, and ways to combat it.
Name the ethical dilemmas involving medical aid in dying, organ transplantation, genomic testing, and the nurse’s role in these dilemmas.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Using Bioethical Principles in Decision-Making
Recalling the Principles
The Process of Informed Consent
Three Models of Decision-Making
Determining the Appropriate Action
A Voluntary Decision
Using an Ethics Committee During an Ethical Dilemma
Section 3: Moral Distress in Nursing
Understanding Moral Distress
Section 4: Medical Assistance in Dying
Definition
Exploring Opposing Viewpoints
The Importance of Hospice and Palliative Care
Section 5: Organ Transplantation
History of Organ Transplantation
Ethical Concerns in Organ Transplantation
Ethical Problems in Organ Donation
Section 6: Gene Therapy
Psychosocial Risks of Genomic Testing
Ethical Concerns with Direct-to-Consumer Testing
Section 7: Clinical Vignette
A Daughter’s Advocacy
Section 8: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
Subject Matter Expert: Andrea Powell, RN, BSN
Andrea Powell, RN, BSN is a SME writer for Relias with a focus on acute care. She has over 11 years of clinical nursing experience, spanning across multiple nursing specialties. Her primary focus has been in critical care, with an affinity to surgical nursing. She also has experience in intraoperative nursing and post-anesthesia care. Andrea has served as a clinical team leader, preceptor and charge nurse to colleagues throughout her nursing career. She has a passion for the education of healthcare professionals and an aspiration for excellence in the healthcare delivery system.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Care and Case Managers; Nursing Personnel; in the following settings: Hospitals: Acute.
Relias Learning will be transparent in disclosing if any commercial support, sponsorship or co-providership is present prior to the learner completing the course.
Relias Learning has a grievance policy in place to facilitate reports of dissatisfaction. Relias Learning will make every effort to resolve each grievance in a mutually satisfactory manner. In order to report a complaint or grievance please contact Relias Learning at support@reliaslearning.com.
All courses offered by Relias Learning, LLC are developed from a foundation of diversity, inclusiveness, and a multicultural perspective. Knowledge, values and awareness related to cultural competency are infused throughout the course content.
To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.