Course Code: REL-ACU-0-NEF
Hours: 1.5
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Name five major ethical theories.
Recognize the four major bioethical principles.
Define paternalism, veracity, fidelity, confidentiality, futile treatment, living will, durable power of attorney for healthcare, and “medical assistance in dying.”
List the roles and responsibilities of an ethics committee and its ethicist in the acute care setting.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Ethical Theories
Utilitarianism
Deontological Theory
Case-Based Reasoning
Ethics of Care Theory
Virtue Ethics
Review
Summary
Section 3: Bioethical Principles
The Tuskegee Experiment
Respect for Autonomy
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Justice
Section 4: The Ethics Committee in the Acute Care Setting
Ethics Committee: Overview
Ethics Committee: Roles and Responsibilities
Section 5: Clinical Vignette
Jumpstarting a New Committee
Section 6: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
References
Subject Matter Expert: Carol Taylor, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN
Carol Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN is a senior clinical scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and a Professor of Medicine and Nursing. Experienced in caring for patients who are chronically and critically ill and their families, Carol chose doctoral work in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics because of a passion to “make health care work” for those who need it. At Georgetown, Carol was a founding member and previous director of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. Her research interests include clinical and professional ethics and organizational integrity.
Carol has a PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University and a Master's Degree in Medical-Surgical Nursing from Catholic University; She now works closely with health care professionals and leaders who are exploring the ethical dimensions of their practice. She lectures internationally and writes on various issues in healthcare ethics and serves as an ethics consultant to systems and professional organizations. She has served as an ethics consultant to Hospice of the Valley, the largest not-for-profit hospice in the U.S., for over ten years and served on the Bon Secours Health System Corporate Board and Ethics Advisory Board. She was also on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. She is a co-author of Wolters Kluwer’s Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Nursing Care, which is now in its 9th edition, and co-editor of Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine and Moral Anthropology and the 4th edition of Case Studies in Nursing Ethics.
Writer: 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.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.