Ethical Dilemmas: Dinner Program

Jacksonville, FL US
January 19, 2017 to January 20, 2017

Ethical dilemmas related to patient care can be associated with medical, psychosocial, ethical, and spiritual challenges for health care team members. This course will be highly practical, action-oriented and will focuses on:

  • Helping attendees to identify clinical ethical dilemmas in daily practice.
  • How to effectively determine patient preferences and appropriate goals of care.
  • Developing a coordinated, consistent approach to ethical dilemmas to reduce both the frequency of occurrence, and stress among providers, patients and their families, and the community.
  • Creating, and implementing, an ethics consultation service in your practice based on the four quadrant approach.

Target Audience

This course is targeted for the entire health care team who can encounter clinical ethical problems – physicians, social workers, nurses, chaplains, NPs, PAs, Social Workers etc. 

Learning Objectives

Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Explain requirements for effective ethics consultation
  • Prepare local training programs for ethics consultants
  • Describe the concepts to consider when responding to a request for an ethics consultant
  • Identify common clinical ethical dilemmas
  • Identify approaches to resolving clinical ethical dilemmas

Attendance at this Mayo course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or taught in this course.

Course summary
Event starts: 
01/19/2017 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
01/20/2017 - 5:00pm
Mayo Clinic in Florida
4500 San Pablo Rd
Kinne Auditorium
Jacksonville, FL 32224
United States
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