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Values, Obligations and Rights: Health Care Ethics

  • Course Author: Sue Wintz, M.Div., BCC
  • Duration: 35 hours - Access for 6 months
  • Type: Self-Paced
  • Category: Essential Spiritual Care
Price:$220

This course, Values, Obligations and Rights: Health Care Ethics, is designed to introduce the concepts of biomedical ethics and assist chaplains and spiritual care providers in understanding and applying those concepts to daily professional practice. It includes information on how diverse beliefs and values due to cultural, religious, spiritual, and/or existential beliefs may impact a patient or family’s experience and decision-making. Chaplains and spiritual care providers are in the unique position of serving as mediators and facilitators in the interaction of and care for patients, families, and staff. This course will explore the ethical issues in health care, including the nuanced applications of ethical principles and theories in a case study example.

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

    • Describe the four ethical principles of respect, justice, nonmaleficence, and beneficence.

    • Identify the ethical and moral challenges that may occur in relation to health care.

    • Articulate the role of religious, spiritual, existential, and cultural factors in ethical discussions in health care.

    • Describe the role of the chaplain or spiritual care provider when ethical situations arise, including assessment, interventions, and documentation.

    • Identify the importance of and how to secure information on faith tradition directives regarding medical interventions such as termination of pregnancy, use of certain medications or ingredients, provision, withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatments.

    • Gain understanding about interventions to respect and advocate for the development of plans of care that accurately incorporate the patient or surrogate’s stated beliefs, values, culture, and preferences without inserting one’s own beliefs.

    • Identify the components of an ethics referral and the role of an ethics committee and consult.

 

(Price includes GST and fully subsidised student registration fee)

This course was written by The Rev. Sue Wintz, M.Div. APBCC, BCC

Director of Professional and Community Education at HealthCare Chaplaincy Network and the Director of Education for the Spiritual Care Association

The Rev. Sue Wintz, M.Div. APBCC, BCC is the Director of Professional and Community Education at HealthCare Chaplaincy Network and the Director of Education for the Spiritual Care Association. She has over 35 years of clinical, administrative, writing, educational design, development, and teaching experience in the provision of professional chaplaincy and spiritual care in numerous health care, and community settings as well as an expert advisor to multidisciplinary professional organizations. Sue is a nationally recognized expert in cultural competence in health care and has taught about cultural competency in all health care settings for over two decades. She has contributed to work through both writing and teaching for organizations like the Joint Commission, the American Medical Association, the American Burn Association, and the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care as well as through numerous articles and presentations. Sue is an advance practice board certified member of the Spiritual Care Association. She is also a board-certified chaplain member and past president of the Association of Professional Chaplains who, in 2013 gave her its highest honor – the Anton Boisen Professional Service Award.
  1. Introduction to Medical/Health Care Ethics
  2. Four Principles
  3. Medical Decision Making
  4. Life-Prolonging Medical Interventions
  5. Medical Futility
  6. Palliative Sedation
  7. Role of the Professional Chaplain or Spiritual Care Provider
  8. When the Culture Avoids Ethical Issues
  9. Clinical Ethics Consultation Service
  10. Summary

Aligns with the following Sub-domains in SHA’s Capability Framework for Spiritual Care Practitioners in Health (2020):

    • 1.2 Client engagement

    • 1.3 Perform and deliver

    • 1.4 Monitor and review

    • 1.5 Evidence-based practice

    • 1.6 Quality care and risk management

    • 3.1 Equity and diversity

    • 3.2 Wellbeing and holistic care

    • 4.1 Ethical and legal practice

    • 4.3 Accountability

*Also aligns with Capability Levels 2 (Independent Practice) and 3 (Service Coordination)

Aligns with the following Priorities in the National Model for Spiritual Care in Health:

    • Priority 1: Holistic Person-Centred Care

    • Priority 3: Professionalised Workforce
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