Kathleen Kovarik – Practical Ethics: Addressing the Real-Life Challenges Confronting Healthcare Professionals

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Kathleen Kovarik is a member of the faculty.
Duration: One Whole Day
Audio and video formats are available.
Date of publication: January 27, 2016
Description
Ethics committees can assist with difficult decisions.
As you learn new abilities to face ethical dilemmas, assist patients and families.
Use a number of ethical decision-making tools – takeaways to add to your arsenal!
Investigate legal results in current and historic ethical cases.
How would you handle the MOST difficult workplace-related ethical issues?
Updates on ethical quandaries caused by technological breakthroughs

Do you want to feel more at ease when confronted with ethical quandaries in clinical settings, the workplace, or in everyday life? Would you like to make it easier for patients and families to traverse the challenging waters of ethical decision-making, or to make better judgments on workplace-related ethical challenges that you yourself face? This course will provide you with an Ethical Toolkit to utilize while leading a patient/family through Advance Directive decisions, making the heartbreaking decision to withdraw mechanical breathing for a loved one, or ensuring that your work environment adheres to the highest ethical standards.

Learning with Kathleen Kovarik, PhD, RN, on these typically difficult issues has been described as informative, amusing, and engaging by previous attendees. Ride the wave of Kathleen’s ethical enthusiasm and enjoy the multifaceted, dynamic atmosphere she creates, which results in high-level learning. She will take you further into ethical decision-making and its practical application to the complicated health-care scenarios you confront on a daily basis.

Handouts

Manual for Webcasts (17.80 MB)

Outline 55 Pages Available After Purchase

What are your core beliefs?

Exploration of Fundamental Beliefs/Values Exercise
Improving Critical Thinking Capabilities

Ethics in Health Care

Key Cases and Codes on Human Medical Experimentation and the Evolution of Ethics
Tuskegee Syphilis Study by Presidents Garfield and McKinley Nuremburg Trials and Nuremburg Code Declaration of Helsinki
Dialysis and the “God Committee”
Recent Use of Ethical Decisions in the U.S.

Committees on Ethics

When Should the Ethics Committee Be Involved?
Seeking Advice: Understanding the Composition of Committees/Models

Ethical Groundwork

Ethical Positions and Positions
Teleology vs. Deontology
Relativism vs. Objectivism
Theories Important
Kant’s Ethics
Utilitarianism based on Natural Law
Ethics in the Rawlsian Tradition
Care Ethics Rights-Based Ethics
Ethical Community

Ethical Guidelines

Autonomy\sBeneficence
Non-maleficence
Veracity\sFidelity
Justice
Respect for Individuals

Ethical Decision-Making: A Practice Toolkit

Defining Ethical Issues and Problems
Formats and Tools for Making Decisions
Bennett-Woods Eight Step Model with Four Quadrants

The Most Contentious Cases

Cases that Set the Standard
Recent Cases and Current Ethical Issues
Cases Involving Personhood Definitions Living Wills, Advance Directives, DNRs, and ANDs
Informed Consent Issues
What are some of the most difficult cases you’ve worked on?

Dealing with Ethical Issues: Team Decision-Making Practice

A Case of Scarcity: Hurricane Katrina and Mercy Hospital

Ethical Leadership in Action

Workplace Ethics in Leadership
Keeping Up with Ethical Issues
Ethical Issues in the Horizon: Technology Advancement
Recent Findings: Faculty Educational Opportunities in Health-Care Ethics
PhD, RN Kathleen Kovarik Seminars and goods related to this topic: 3

Kathleen Kovarik, PhD, RN, is a seasoned clinician and educator with 17 years of experience teaching and speaking in a wide range of venues (nursing schools, regional and national conferences, seminars, and retreats). Her clinical experiences have brought her from a Level I Trauma Center Regional Burn Unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle to summers doing home care for Visiting Nurses in Spokane, WA, to helping to create a Parish Nursing program in Missoula, MT. Kathleen currently resides in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where she works as an Ethics Committee member for Regional Health in Rapid City, as the director of Faces of Leadership (leadership training and consultation), teaches Applied Health-Care Ethics for Regis University in Denver, and as clinical faculty for the University of South Dakota’s medical school.

Dr. Kovarik has continued her interest in ethics and has taught ethics material at Washington State University and South Dakota State University for many years. Her background working in a Level I Trauma Center/Burn Unit as well as in home care/parish nursing provides her with a broad perspective and unique experiences to offer. She specialized in pain management and end-of-life care, and she was chosen to serve on the Board of the Washington-Alaska State Cancer Pain Initiative and to pursue a fellowship in pediatric pain management at the University of Colorado.

Speaker Information:
Kathleen Kovarik serves as the Executive Director of Faces of Leadership. She has a working affiliation with Regis University. PESI, Inc. provides Dr. Kovarik with a speaking fee.
Kathleen Kovarik has no non-financial relationships to report.

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