Eastern Maine Medical Center invites you to join them as they facilitate a statewide conversation about clinical ethics in healthcare settings. This day long event is designed for physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy and other staff working in any clinical settings within the state of Maine who face ethical issues in practice.
This nursing and medical education accredited event is designed to facilitate the development and enhancement of ethics in clinical settings throughout Maine.
Date: September 21, 2009
Time: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Location: Spectacular Event Center, 395 Griffin Road, Bangor, Maine
Directions: here
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE (You will be taken to the EMMC website)
More Information:
Conference Objectives:
• Identify (3) central theories in the Western ethical tradition that
have influenced clinical bioethics.
• Identify ethical norms of healthcare professionalism.
• Describe duties of professionalism related to public health
emergencies, financial conflict of interest and disclosure of
adverse events.
• Compare and contrast four paradigms of death and dying.
• Relate how personal, professional, and societal beliefs
concerning human life, dying and death influence the outcomes
of health care decision making.
• Explore practical ways to be a joy and hope-filled healing
presence when surrounded with diminishment and dying.
• Describe (3) types of ethical issues that arise in rural settings.
• Identify (3) differences between Native American approaches to
health and traditional Western medical health as they impact
clinical ethics in practice.
• Recognize the signs of vitality in an ethics committee.
Featured speakers:
Carole Taylor, R.N., PhD
Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University
Carol Taylor is a founding member and director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and an assistant professor of nursing at Georgetown University. She is also a Registered Nurse, and a member of the MD/PhD Oversight Committee. Experienced in caring for chronically and critically ill patients and their families, Carol now works closely with health care professionals who are exploring the ethical dimensions of their practice. She lectures and writes on various issues in healthcare ethics and serves as an ethics consultant to systems and professional organizations. Her research interests include professional and organizational ethics and health care decision making.
Virginia Ashby Sharpe, PhD
Clinical Ethicist, Us Dept. of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Ethics in Health Care
In her role as Medical Ethicist, Virginia Ashby Sharpe contributes to the Center’s work on ethics policy and clinical ethics. Prior to her appointment, she was Director of the Project on Integrity in Science at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a Washington, DC-based consumer organization. This work focused on the commercialization of science and conflicts of interest in scientific research and science-based policy. From 1997 to 2001 she was Deputy Director and Associate for Biomedical and Environmental Ethics at the Hastings Center in Garrison, NY.
She has written and spoken widely on patient safety and health care quality; scientific integrity and conflicts of interest; ethical expertise in the courtroom; environmental justice; and wolf restoration. Her books include: Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform (Georgetown University Press, 2004), Wolves and Human Communities (Island Press, 2001), and Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness (Cambridge U. Press, 1998).
Frank Chessa, PhD
Frank Chessa is Director of Clinical Ethics at Maine Medical Center. He is formerly an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bates College and has held teaching positions at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, The United States Naval Academy and Georgetown University. Frank received his Doctorate at Georgetown University in 1999 and publishes in the area of health care ethics and environmental ethics. Some of his publications are “Wanted, Dead or Alive: The Ethics of Vital Organ Donation (letter)” in the Hastings Center Report; “Building Bioethics Networks in Rural States: Blessings and Barriers” in Ethical Issues in Rural Health; “The History and Theory of Ethics” in Weiner’s Pain Management; “Endangered Species and the Right to Die” Environmental Ethics, McKibben’s Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age”in the Journal of Medical Ethics, and; “Allowing Natural Death – Not so fast” (letter) Hastings Center Report. He has chaired the IRB at Bates College and is an IRB member at Maine Medical Center. He has been serving on ethics committees and on various ethics-related boards and taskforces for more than 25 years.
Jessica P. Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine, Orono, and Clinical Ethicist, Eastern Maine Medical Center. Miller received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 1999, and publishes in the areas of clinical ethics, moral psychology, and feminist bioethics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in biomedical ethics, responsible conduct of research, ethical theory, feminist theory, and ethics and fiction.
Agenda:
7:30 am Registration
8:00 am Welcome
James Van Kirk, MD
Medical Director, Palliative Care, Chair, EMMC Ethics Advisory Committee
Deborah Carey Johnson, RN
President and CEO, EMMC
8:20 am Keynote Address: Duty to Care: Conflicts of Interest, and Adverse Event Disclosure
Virginia Ashby Sharpe, PhD
9:30 am Who Needs Ethical Theory?
Frank Chessa, PhD
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Bioethics in Rural Settings
Jessica Miller, PhD
11:15 am EMMC Ethics Advisory Committee and Process
James Van Kirk, MD, Jessica Miller, PhD, Rex Garrett, DMin, Roberta Burbank, RN, Jonathan Wood, MD, Helen McKinnon, RN, BSN, MS, Lois Latour, LCSW, Marie Mallet, RN
11:45 am Lunch
12:35 pm Keynote address: End of Life Decisions: Are We Making Progress?
Carol Taylor, RN, PhD
2:00 pm Small Group Discussions of Ethics Cases
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Interactive discussion sessions
(a) Cultural Diversity and Ethics
Jessica Miller, PhD and Pamella Hand
(b) Decision Making Capacity
Virginia Ashby Sharpe, PhD
(c) Strengthening an Ethics Committee
Frank Chessa, PhD
4:15 pm Wrap Up/Evaluation
Tuition:
Tuition for this day long event is $100 per participant and includes
materials, refreshments, lunch, and a certificate of attendance.
Tuition for EMMC Employees and Medical Staff is waived.
Members of EMHS are eligible for a 10% discount. Students are
eligible for a 50% discount. Please factor in your discount when
sending payment. Written confirmation with directions to the
conference site will be mailed to you.
For more information, contact Jessica Miller at jmiller(at)emh(dot)org
The event qualifies for 7 contact hours for CME and CNE. Social work credit can be applied for by social work attendees.
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE (You will be taken to the EMMC website)
