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
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 25 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Module 1: Course Overview and Pre-TestCourse Description and Pre-Test3
- Module 2: Advance Care PlanningAdvance Directives: DNR, DNI, MOLST/POLST8
- 2.1Advance Health Care Planning5 Minutes
- 2.2What Is Advance Care Planning5 Minutes
- 2.3A Statutory Evolution: Advance Care Directives5 Minutes
- 2.4Advance Directives5 Minutes
- 2.5DNR and DNI5 Minutes
- 2.6Medical/ Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment5 Minutes
- 2.7Making Decisions in the Absence of an Advance Directive5 Minutes
- 2.8Module 2: Review Questions10 Minutes2 Questions
- Module 3: Prelude to BioethicsIntroduction to Bioethics, Philosophical Perspectives6
- Module 4: Principles of BioethicsEthical Challenges5
- Module 5: Prelude to Bioethics MediationMediation, Case Vignette, Course Survey and Post-Test9
- 5.1Bioethics Mediation5 Minutes
- 5.2Mediation5 Minutes
- 5.3Mediation in Health Care Settings5 Minutes
- 5.4Exercise: The Isolated Wife Adjusting to Loss5 Minutes
- 5.5Role Play: The Dialogue5 Minutes
- 5.6Role of The Social Worker5 Minutes
- 5.7References5 Minutes
- 5.8Course Survey- Prelude To Advance Care Planning10 Minutes10 Questions
- 5.9Post-Test: Prelude To Advance Care Planning and Bioethics10 Minutes10 Questions