End-of-Life Ethics: Cultural Competency
$25.95
Using a case study approach, this webinar will address patient and family care at life’s end through the lens of cultural competency, offering awareness, skills, and knowledge that take clinical practice a step beyond the commonly accepted concept of cultural humility. Cases will include situations familiar to clinicians, including issues of family conflict in end-of-life decision making, a distrust of the healthcare system due to historical inequities around access to care, and helping dying patients cope with pain and suffering in the face of long-held beliefs.
Program Viewing
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Continuing Education
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Discuss moral obligation and respect the autonomy of the patient’s conservator
- Examine cultural issues that influence end-of-life care decision making
- Identify ways to demonstrate compassionate and respect for the unique patient/family values, even if these differ from the standard goals of the medical team.
- Identify strategies to assure that advance care plans for patients/clients who identify as LGBTQ are respected by the health care team.
- Explain the importance of staff training to promote knowledgeable and compassionate care towards LGBTQ patients.
- Describe institutional policies that promote respectful and nondiscriminatory care for the LGBTQ community, including patients and families, and hospice employees.
- Analyze and identify ethical solutions related to how spiritual pain complicated by Religious and Spiritual (R/S) abuse impacts the experience of the terminally ill.
- Express and examine R/S abuse in the dying patient and the unique ethical challenges related to possible value imposition that may arise for the medical care team’s spiritual and religious views.
