Course Description
Prelude to Advance Care Planning and Bioethics explores advance directives and ways to support patient self-determination through the application of medical ethics. As Social Workers, we often play an integral role on multi-disciplinary teams. As a profession, we are well suited to be mediators when there is a difference of opinion between doctor and patient.
Course Outline
Course Title: Prelude to Advance Care Planning and Bioethics
Instructor: Trélan Nicole Holder, MS, LCSW
Contact Hours/CEUs: 2-Contact Hours
Format: Online Self-Study Course (Text-based Readings and Videos)
Process: Register and pay for course. Read content online.
Pass online post-test and print certificate of completion. Registrants
can access course for 2 years from date of registration.
Learning Objectives
- Review the origins of Bioethics
- Consider the ethical challenges
- Identify and define four (4) key principles of medical ethics (patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, distributive justice).
- Identify Stages of Bioethics Mediation
- Consider the role of social workers as mediators in the healthcare setting
Course Features
- Lectures 25
- Quizzes 6
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 3
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes