Ethics Consultation: Responding to Ethics Questions in Health Care (3 credit hours)
Program Summary: Ethics consultations are occurring not only in inpatient clinical settings but also increasingly in outpatient clinics, long term care facilities, home care, and other settings. This course explores ethics consultation in health care and uses the CASES approach to systematically guide the consultation. The course describes proficiencies and critical success factors for ethics consultation. The course offers guidance for formulating ethics questions and offers specific approaches to ethical analysis. Common misconceptions about ethics consultation are identified.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice. This course is not recommended for NBCC ethics credit.
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/ethicsconsultation.pdf
Publisher: National Center for Ethics in Healthcare, Veterans Health Adminstration
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to ethics consultation.
Learning Objectives: Describe the strengths and weakness of the three ethics consultation models. Describe the process for formulating the central ethics perspectives and the ethics question. Identify different approaches to ethical analysis. Identify the three legitimate types of rationales that may be used for an ethical argument.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2018 - 9/6/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Ethics Consultation: Responding to Ethics Questions in Healthcare, Course # 2354, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Free State Social Work as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 04/29/2019 - 04/29/2021. Social workers completing this course received 3 Ethics continuing education credits.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.