Course Description
Course Description:
This intermediate level course provides physical therapists and physical therapist assistants with an updated primer on the study of ethics and ethical behaviors as they apply to physical therapy practice. The course is designed to help clinicians effectively and efficiently integrate ethical decision making into their clinical practice.
Contact Hours: 5
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: IntermediateAccreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
- INTRODUCTION
- MORALITY, VALUES, ETHICS, AND THE LAW
- CODES OF ETHICS
- DIMENSIONS OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY
- ETHICAL APPROACHES, THEORIES, AND PRINCIPLES: TOOLS FOR ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
- THE ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
- ANALYZING ETHICAL ISSUES: CASE VIGNETTES
- ETHICS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
- CONCLUSION
- RESOURCES
- GLOSSARY
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional will effectively and efficiently integrate ethical decision making into their clinical practice.
Professional Objectives:
- Identify the differences and commonalities among morality, values, ethics, and the law
- Describe the purpose and limitations of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Code of Ethics for Physical Therapists
- Identify types of ethical problems and issues in physical therapy.
- Describe the ethical approaches, theories, and principles that can guide the physical therapy practitioner in making an ethical decision.
- Evaluate ethical issues based on an ethical decisionmaking model.
- Describe future considerations in ethical decision making.
Disclosures:
SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND
"Seminar-On-Demand" course are streamed on your web browser if the online version if purchased. Our SODs are optimized for the most current versions of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. A current version of Adobe Flashplayer is also required when viewing on a desktop or laptop computer. All SOD courses are mobile ready.
Contact Hours: 5 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: Depending on your state requirements you will be asked to complete either: An affirmation that you have completed the educational activity or a mandatory test (a passing score of 70 percent is required). Test questions link content to learning objectives as a method to enhance individualized learning and material retention. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved.
Elite Learning Contact Information: 26 N. Beach St. | Suite A | Ormond Beach | Florida | 32174 | Toll-Free 1.888.857.6920 | Email:office@elitecme.com
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Bruce H. Greenfield, PT, PhD, FNAP is employed by Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and receives a salary. He receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
Authors:
Bruce H. Greenfield, PT, PhD, FNAP, FAPTA
Bruce H. Greenfield, PT, PhD, FNAP (Fellow National Academies of Practice), FAPTA, is a professor in the Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has been on the faculty since 1985. He is a senior fellow in the Emory University Center for Ethics, and affiliated faculty, Certificate Program Disability, Health and Culture. He is a member of the Emory University Hospital Ethics Committee. Dr. Greenfield holds a bachelor of arts degree from Oglethorpe University; a certificate in physical therapy and master of medical science degree, both from Emory University; and a PhD in higher education from Georgia State University. He subsequently received an additional master’s degree in bioethics from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Greenfield was appointed by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Board of Directors to serve on the APTA Ethics and Judicial Committee. He currently chairs that committee. He also chairs the Research Committee of the Physical Therapy Association of Georgia and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education and the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy. Dr. Greenfield’s influential writings on ethics in physical therapy have twice been recognized by the APTA section on Education as recipient of its prestigious Stanford Award. His scholarship focuses on strategies to improve patient-centered care, including the development of an ethics of care based on phenomenology that contains practical steps to help clinicians understand the values and concerns of apatient living with disabilities as those values emerge and change over time.
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