Hospice Foundation of America's 19th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
Living with Grief: End-of-Life Ethics
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Registration 9:30
10:15 a.m.-1:00
p.m.
Local Panel discussion 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
The Lincoln Center
1316 N Lincoln Street
This conference examines, using a case study approach, the ethical issues and dilemmas that emerge at the end of life. Ethical decisions at the end of life provide a point where all the factors that influence end-of-life care such as finances, laws, values, culture, and technology converge. The decisions that are made at the end of life affect not only the way that the person dies, but also the ways that survivors face the loss.
Following the program there will be a thirty-minute local panel discussion. At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the process of ethical decision-making;
2. Discuss four principles of bio-medical ethics;
3. Describe end-of-life ethical dilemmas, such as disclosure and communication, surrogate decision-making, artificial nutrition and hydration, and palliative sedation;
4. Describe complicating factors when patients are children and adolescents;
5. Discuss the ways that cultural values and beliefs may influence ethical decisions at the end of life;
6. Describe the ways that ethical issues at the end of life can create moral distress and influence the grief reactions of families and hospice and palliative staff and volunteers.
TO REGISTER:
Click here to register for this event.
A PDF of the Registration Brochure is coming soon.
NOTICE:
ONLINE CE process: Continuing Education credits will ONLY be available online for $30 by applying directly through Hospice Foundation of America after the teleconference. Full instructions to obtain CEs will be provided at the conference.
The teleconference is produced by Hospice Foundation of America.
This year's National Panel includes:
Moderator: Lynn Sherr, former ABC News 20/20 correspondent
Timothy R. Arsenault, MA, Director of Spiritual Care for Suncoast Hospice.
Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW, Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.
Eileen R. Chichin, PhD, RN, former Co-Director of the Greenburg Center on Ethics and Palliative Care at Jewish Home Lifecare and an adjunct assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at Long Island University.
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv, Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle.
Bruce Jennings, MA, Director of Bioethics at the Center for Humans and Nature, Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, Lecturer at the Weill Medical School-Cornell University, and a Senior Consultant at The Hastings Center.
Hank Willner, MD, Hospice Medical Director and Palliative Care Consultant at Capital Caring.
This year's Local Panelists will be announced soon. Our moderator will once again be Dr. Bob Bray:
Dr. Bob Bray, MD, Medical Director, Hospice of Spokane. Dr. Bray’s experience includes more than 25 years in clinical practice, most recently as the assistant program director for Family Medicine Spokane. He received his medical degree from the University of California and is board certified in family practice and has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in geriatrics and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Bray’s focus at Hospice of Spokane is to provide patient home visits and rounds on Hospice House patients.