38th Annual Symposium, When Values Collide: A Framework and Strategies for Contemporary Ethics Consultation
Event Cost
WVNEC Members $110
Non-Members $140
Course fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, lunch, course materials, and continuing education credits for those listed in the brochure. Registration is limited to 100 registrants.
Series Description
This case-based, interactive symposium is designed for current and aspiring ethics consultants, committee members, and health care professionals who navigate complex ethical issues and assist their institutions in addressing them. In contemporary health care, values often clash among patients, families, and providers, leading to moral distress and challenging consultation cases.
This symposium moves beyond basic ethical principles to provide a structured framework and practical process-driven strategies to reach harmonious resolutions of common ethics consultation conflicts.
Speakers and panelists will discuss the following cases: an emotionally distraught, physically suffering patient with terminal cancer who requests medical assistance in dying; a functionally very weak patient with questionable decision-making capacity who is in conflict with his medical power of attorney representative son over his refusal of respiratory treatments needed to sustain his life; a pediatric patient with metastatic cancer who refuses cancer treatment over his mother’s objection because it makes him so sick; and a terminally ill, functionally impaired octogenarian who requests to stay in her own home and not go to a nursing home even though she is running out of money to pay her 24/7 caregivers.
Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the WVU School of Medicine and WVNEC. The WVU School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The WVU Office of CME designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This continuing education activity has been provided by the WVU School of Nursing for 6.6 contact hours. The WVU School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses, Legislative Rule #19CSR11-4 under provider number 50-26086.
This course is sponsored by the Center for Health Ethics and Law, Provider Number 490095, which is a Certified Provider of continuing education credits for social workers. This program has been awarded up to 5.5 hours of continuing education credit.
West Virginia Rules for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education credits have been applied for.
Series Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Implement a systematic framework and process for conducting ethics consultations.
- Formulate clear, well-justified ethics recommendations and communicate them effectively.
- Examine when clinicians should override treatment refusals of patients with limited capacity.
- Apply relevant West Virginia health care law to cases in which there are issues regarding decision-making capacity, informed consent, advance
directive implementation, and respecting medical orders.
Hotel
Stonewall Resort
940 Resort Drive
Roanoke, WV 26447
304.269.7400
Room Block Link expires on April 21.