Course Description

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide an understanding of ethics and the expectations of healthcare providers as it relates to the four principles of healthcare ethics.  Discussions around the relationship of laws, ethics and morals will lead into where to find the national and state level expectations of ethical behavior for each discipline.  The connection will be made between professionalism and ethics with a great amount of time spent discuss a few of the approaches or frameworks that can be used to come to a decision in an ethical dilemma.  Those frameworks will then be applied to real life scenarios to assist the participant in applying the information for future use.

Contact Hours: 2
Video Course Format: Video
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: Intermediate BOC Level of Difficulty: Essential

Accreditation Information:

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Course Outline:

Hour 1

  • Introduction to ethics and the four principles of healthcare ethics;
    • Autonomy, 
    • Beneficence, 
    • Non-maleficence and justice.  
  • A review of the inter-relationship of laws, ethics and morals leading in to where to find your practices national and state level ethical expectations.  
  • Professionalism will be reviewed and connected to ethical behavior

Hour 2

  • Common types of ethical dilemmas in healthcare with a greater emphasis on the various approaches and frameworks that can be used to work through issues.
  • Real-life scenarios and application of those frameworks

Course Goals & Objectives:

Course Goals:

This course is intended to instruct the professional on the understanding of ethics and the expectations of healthcare providers as it relates to the four principles of healthcare ethics.

Professional Objectives:

  1. Define ethics and describe the 4 principles to healthcare ethics.
  2. Recognize the inter-relationship of laws, ethics and morals
  3. Identify the ethical obligations healthcare workers are under at the national and state levels.
  4. Identify the role of professionalism in ethics.
  5. List the types of ethical dilemmas.
  6. Identify the various frameworks of ethical decision making to real life scenarios.

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: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist, Nursing Home Administrators and Nurses, Athletic Trainers

Instructional Level: Intermediate

ASHA Brand Block 

This course is offered for 0.20 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Related area).

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Leigh Ann Frick is the owner of Care Navigation Consulting and receives a salary. She receives payment from Colibri Healthcare, LLC 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

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Authors:

Leigh Ann Frick, PT, MBA

Leigh Ann attended Ohio University where she obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Physical Therapy in 1993.  Leigh Ann is licensed to practice as a phyiscal therapist in Ohio, South Carolina and North Carolina and has 23 years of experience; primarily in the post-acute continuum.  Leigh Ann started her career in Physical Therapy splitting her time between acute care and skilled nursing faciliites.  She quickly realized she enjoyed teaching and training, and was given an opporutnity to provide internal educational sessions to the clinicians in her company on various clinical and regulatory topics.  Leigh Ann then moved into a consulting role, assisting skilled nursing facilities and their rehabilitation departments with quality, compliance and clinical effecacy through audits, education, site visits and mock surveys.

Leigh Ann then became a Regional Director of Operations, again focusing on how to clinically achieve the operational outcomes necessary to have an effective rehab department; always focused on quality care and resident advocacy.  For the past 15 years Leigh Ann has been responsible for the clinical integrity of a large rehabiliation partner and spent the last 2 years as the Chief Clinical Officer before she started her own consulting company; Care Navigation Consulting in November 2016.  She completed her MBA from Clemson University in 2011; allowing her to better understand the business intricacies that have allowed her to be both a clinical and operational leader. 

 

Leigh Ann has been a member of the American Physical Therapy Association since 1993 and has been actively involved and a board member of NASL (National Association for the Support of Long Term Care).  She has spoken at both the state and national level, including VHCA, OHCA and Leading Age National to name a few. Leigh Ann is a proven subject matter expert as it pertains to the delivery of quality rehab services compliant with regulatory iniiatives in the post-acute continuum; this qualifies her to present the material outlined above in the objectives.

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