Medical Ethics Advisor: Online

Making medical ethics decisions, concerns about patient confidentiality, consent, competency, potential liability, treatment costs, and family wishes often are compounded by the conflicting demands of the government, the judiciary, healthcare providers, and patients.

Medical Ethics Advisor focuses on these issues so you can understand how biological, legal, financial, and moral viewpoints interrelate and shape the decision-making you encounter in your practice. Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Medical Ethics Advisor.

Medical Ethics Advisor Covers:

• Palliative care and end-of-life care and decision-making
• Ethical consults and ethical decision-making in the hospital setting
• Organizing ethics committees and facilitating communication between committee members and hospital staff
• Ethics in research and in emerging technologies such as genetic testing
• Informed consent and regulatory guidance
• Current events in human research protections
• And much more...
  
  

Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Medical Ethics Advisor.

Faculty

Physician Editor:

Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD
Director and Professor
Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Institute for Health and Society
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee

Nurse Planner:

Susan Solverson, BSN, RN, CMSRN,
Grafton, WI

Editorial Advisory Board:

Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAAN
Consultant/Educator
Adjunct Professor, Nursing
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH

John D. Banja, PhD
Professor, Department
of Rehabilitation Medicine
Medical Ethicist, Center for Ethics
Emory University
Atlanta

Monica R. Chmielewski, JD
Partner
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Chicago

Felicia Cohn, PhD, HEC-C
Bioethics Director
Kaiser Permanente Orange County
Anaheim, CA

Barbara DeCausey, MPH, MBA, CIP
Director, Human Research
Protections Program
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Blacksburg, VA

Ellen Fox, MD, HEC-C
President
Fox Ethics Consulting
Arlington, VA

Marc D. Hiller, DrPH
Associate Professor
Department of Health
Management and Policy
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH

Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH
President
Hofmann Healthcare Group
Moraga, CA

James Riddle, MCSE, CIP, CPIA, CRQM
Vice President
Institutional Services and Strategic Consulting
Advarra
Columbia, MD

Objectives:

• Discuss new developments in clinical ethics and research regulation and their implications in healthcare systems for patient care, healthcare delivery, and research.
• Discuss the implications of developments in clinical ethics for patients, families, physicians, other healthcare professionals, and society.
• Review and apply principles of human subject protection in clinical trial programs, including compliance with mandated regulatory safeguards and educational requirements for human subject research.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for acute care physicians, chiefs of medicine, hospital administrators, nurse managers, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, members of ethics committees, IRB members, and chaplains.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (24 per year). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

2 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion (24 per year).

Expiration

This activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.

Instructions For Participation

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment and an evaluation, they will receive their credit letter.