End-of-Life Ethics: Cultural, Religious, and Legal Views
About the Course
Episode 1: Explore the vital topic of advanced care planning and its pivotal role in honoring individuals' values and preferences, particularly during critical end-of-life stages. The podcast navigates the complexities of treatment options, ethical considerations, and the significance of cultural and religious beliefs in decision-making. It sheds light on the importance of proactive communication through advanced directives.
Episode 2: Explore the collaborative aspects of ensuring individuals' care plans align with their values, preferences, and cultural traditions on advanced care planning. This podcast emphasizes the importance of cultural humility in advanced care planning and provide examples of methods to integrate diverse backgrounds and customs into advanced directives. The role of interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare is highlighted as a component for holistic end-of-life care.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Define the importance and process of advance care planning for individuals and families, including the facilitation of advance directives and addressing common challenges and misconceptions.
- Recognize the ethical principles guiding end-of-life care decisions and strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare settings.
- Identify the impact of cultural sensitivity on care approaches within hospice settings and its significance in providing person-centered care.
- Summarize initiatives aimed at promoting awareness of advance care planning and potential legislative changes for improving end-of-life care practices and policies.
About the Presenter
M. Jane Markley is a consultant and ethics advisor with 40+ years’ experience in healthcare. She works with individuals, families, organizations, ethics committees, and healthcare systems to help them understand the importance of advance care planning for themselves, their loved ones, and their members. A retired Navy Nurse, she is board-certified in healthcare management, a patient advocate, and a former hospital ethics committee chair. She trains healthcare advocates; speaks nationally and internationally; works one on one with individuals and their families facilitating completion of their advance directives; does ethics training for medical students as an Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, and serves on the Maryland State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life.
Dr. Candace Pierce is a nurse leader committed to ensuring nurses are well prepared and offered abundant opportunities and resources to enhance their skills acquisition and confidence at the bedside. With 15 years in nursing, she has worked at the bedside, in management, and in nursing education. She has demonstrated expertise and scholarship in innovation and design thinking in healthcare and education, and collaborative efforts within and outside of healthcare. Scholarship endeavors include funded grants, publications, and presentations. As a leader, Dr. Pierce strives to empower others to create and deploy ideas and embrace their professional roles as leaders, change agents, and problem solvers. In her position as the Sr. Course Development Manager for Elite, she works as a project engineer with subject matter experts to develop evidence-based best practices in continuing education for nurses and other healthcare professionals.
How to Receive Credit
- Listen to the entire recording.
- After completion of the course, complete the final examination. A passing grade of 75% is required. Exam questions link content to learning outcomes as a method to enhance individualized learning and material retention.
Note to Nursing professionals: Depending on your state requirements, you will be asked to either affirm that you have completed the course, or you will be required to complete the final examination included in the course. - Provide required personal information and payment information.
- Complete the mandatory course evaluation.
- Print your Certificate of Completion.
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