ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: The Complexity of the healthcare and reimbursement systems, new technologies, and aspects of the patient/health care professional relationship raise important questions about what it means to be a professional. Moral distress occurs when health care professionals face situations in which they are asked or required to act in ways that violate their personal and professional moral sensibilities. Initial descriptions of moral distress occurred in the nursing literature, and now moral distress is reported and discussed throughout the healthcare professions. Confronted with seemingly impossible moral dilemmas, individual providers as well as organizations struggle with how to understand professional moral distress and in what way to help providers both address it and handle the decisions that must be made in the face of moral distress.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: The Complexity of the healthcare and reimbursement systems, new technologies, and aspects of the patient/health care professional relationship raise important questions about what it means to be a professional. Moral distress occurs when health care professionals face situations in which they are asked or required to act in ways that violate their personal and professional moral sensibilities. Initial descriptions of moral distress occurred in the nursing literature, and now moral distress is reported and discussed throughout the healthcare professions. Confronted with seemingly impossible moral dilemmas, individual providers as well as organizations struggle with how to understand professional moral distress and in what way to help providers both address it and handle the decisions that must be made in the face of moral distress.

This interactive, one-day workshop addresses the many facets of clinical ethics case consultations.  Utilizing real and paradigmatic cases, participants will identify ethical issues; identify skills and areas of knowledge important to consultation; review how the narrative impacts the course of the consultation; analyze cases using different models; discuss values uncertanity; determine how to arrive at shared goals; and review common pitfalls in case consultation.