Ethical Considerations in End of Life Care (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course examines ethical considerations in end of life care and includes historical perspectives on death and dying, US cultural attitudes, an overview of grief models, professional obligations, and ethical principles. The course explores key positions offered by the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, and the NASW.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice. This course is not recommended for NBCC credit.
Course Reading: Ethical Considerations in End of Life Care
Author: Lynda Lampert
Find the reading at: www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/EthicalConsiderationsinEndofLifeCare.pdf
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to ethical considerations in end of life care.
Learning Objectives: Compare US cultural attitudes on death and dying. Explain the concept of unconditional positive regard. Identify professional and ethical obligations in end of life care for physicians, nurses, and social workers. Describe the NASW’s stance on the morality of end of life decisions.
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: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 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.
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.