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37th Annual WVNEC Symposium
May 30, 2025
Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, WV
Additional information about the symposium will be provided as it becomes available.
2024-2025 Noon Webinar Series
This year’s WVNEC webinar series is once again brought to you in collaboration with the Charleston Area Medical Center’s Geriatrics Lunch and Learn Series. For those who provide ethics consultation or give ethics advice, the cases for the 2024-2025 WVNEC webinar series are timely and relevant.
They cover a discussion of frequent clinical, ethical, and legal questions that arise in patient care for incapacitated patients including…
1) making decisions with the Medical Power of Attorney (MPOA) representatives when there is conflict between them and what to do when the MPOA representative is not authorized to change the POST form, but the patient’s condition has deteriorated;
2) evaluating patients for abuse and neglect, and the Adult Protective Servies procedure for removing a family member as health care surrogate and agreeing to assume that responsibility;
3) responding to a special directive, “shock me up to 5 times,” that is determined to be outside the standard of care;
4) deciding how to proceed when the death of a patient who donated his body to the Human Gift Registry but then was not eligible to be used raises questions about the authority of the MPOA representative, the reasons why a Human Gift Registry may not accept a patient’s body even though the proper documentation was completed, and the value of writing funeral arrangements in a MPOA; and
5) paying attention to psychosocial spiritual issues and using excellent interpersonal communication skills to respond to a family’s request for medically ineffective treatment when having a good policy was not enough.
WVNEC would really appreciate your input and requests concerning educational opportunities. What do you want to learn, discuss, or practice? Do you want lectures, case discussions, policy sharing? Whatever it is, let us know, and we will do what we can to make distance learning/sharing as interesting and educational as possible.
For additional information or suggestions for future webinars, contact Linda McMillen at lmcmillen@hsc.wvu.edu or 304-293-7618.