WVNEC Noon Webinars
Event Cost: FREE
Eat your lunch and use the time productively! Get practice in analyzing and challenging ethical issues common in patient care.
There is no registration fee for this series. To participate on any of the webinars in this series, click on the registration button at the bottom of the page on the day of the webinar you wish to attend and follow the instructions to access the webinar.
Course Description:
Let’s start with good news! Continuing education credits for this series are free through a grant from the CAMC Foundation! 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.
Webinar Dates:
October 2, 2024 - Ethical and Legal Issues in Making Decisions for Older Persons Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
October 30, 2024 - Is Someone Suspect5ed of Abuse or Neglect Ever An Appropriate Surrogate?
December 4, 2024 - "Shock me up to 5 times" - Can we override a patient's CPR special directive?
February 26, 2025 - The Non-Family MPOA Representative and the Unhappy Family
April 23, 2025 - What Constitutes Not Making Decisions in the Patient's Best Interest?
Target Audience:
This conference is appropriate for physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, administrators, clergy, attorneys, and ethics committee members who serve on institutional ethics committees and/or individuals who wish to expand their knowledge of ethical and legal issues in health care ethics.
Overall Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:
- Identify the ethical principles and values in conflict in cases in which there are requests for ethics consultation or advice;
- Implement a process to address ethical issues causing conflict in patient care;
- Cite West Virginia healthcare law relevant to cases involving ethical conflict; and
- Apply ethics process and relevant healthcare law to resolve cases involving conflict.