Examining Ethical Dilemmas and Risk Management

Course Overview

Exploring modern challenges in medical ethics, this activity equips healthcare professionals with tools to incorporate guidelines and principles for ethical practice into their daily work and interactions with patients, coworkers, and staff. This activity presents real-world dilemmas involving confidentiality, cultural competence, provider-patient communication, and coworker misconduct. Through interactive reflection exercises, this program helps the learner identify current leading practices for resolving ethical dilemmas, and it presents codes, principles, and strategies for addressing such dilemmas in the future.

Learning Objectives

• Apply ethical decision-making to healthcare delivery and interactions with coworkers and staff
• Identify factors and situations that contribute to ethical dilemmas and conflicts of interest
• Explore techniques for reporting and resolving ethical issues and dilemmas