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Winston Center Collaborations

Professional Responsibility, Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Leadership in Clinical Ethics*

Friday, March 30, 2007

7:45 am–5:00 pm
Murray Function Room, 4th Floor of the Yawkey Center, Boston College
By invitation only (registration required)

This day-long conference will provide health care and allied professionals and pre-professional students with the tools to recognize the ethical content of care-giving situations. The goal of the program is to increase understanding of available strategies and resources to assist both in the decision-making process and the resolution of problems.

Conference Objectives

  • Clarify the nature and ground of professional responsibility for ethical patient care.
  • Prepare nurses and other health care professionals to be resourceful leaders in the area of clinical ethics.
  • Facilitate egalitarian collaboration among interested parties on behalf of patients.

Refreshments and lunch provided.

Directions and map:
The Yawkey Center is located at the northern end of Alumni Stadium of the Chestnut Hill Campus. Parking will be validated. Please bring parking card with you to registration desk.

   

 

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

7:30–8:00 am

Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00–8:15 am

Introductory Remarks

8:15–9:15 am

Keynote Speaker
- Elizabeth Peter, PhD, RN.
University of Toronto

Topic: The Nature of Professional Responsibility for Good Care

9:15–9:45 am

Current Issues in Healthcare Ethics
- Lauren Kattany, RN, MS 

9:45–10:00 am

Break
10:00–11:30 am

Philosophical, theoretical and practical approaches to ethical decision-making:

• Principle-based Ethics & Decision Making - Pam Grace, PhD, RN
• Narrative Ethics
- Christine Mitchell MS, MTS, RN,FAAN
• Care and Virtue Ethics
- Ellen Robinson, PhD, RN
11:30 am–12:30 pm

Purposes of Ethics Consults
Martha Jurchak, PhD, RN & Elizabeth Tracey, PhD, RN
12:30–1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15–1:45 pm

Research Ethics
- Pam Grace, PhD, RN
1:45 – 2:45

Facilitated small group (8–10 persons) analysis of a case followed by interactive discussion of values, leadership & mentoring
2:45–3:00 pm

Break

3:00–4:00 pm

Interdisciplinary Ethics Rounds –– Leadership, collaboration, reflection and self-reflection: Facilitated discussion of pre-assigned questions.

Facilitator: Adele Pike, Ed.D, RN
Panelists: Sharon Brackett BS, RN,CCRN; Alexandra Cist, MD; Marguerite Hamel-Nardozzi, MSW; Vicki Spuhler, MS, RN
4:00–4:30 pm

Optimizing Stewardship
- Suellen Breakey, PhD, RN
4:30–4:45 pm

Summary, closing remarks, program evaluation

*Sponsored by the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics and the William F. Connell School of Nursing  Boston College in Collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.