2012 Spring Program Sneak Peek
End-of-Life Ethics
Register Now | Learn more about the Program (available April 19, 2012)
| “When you sit down at an ethics committee and wrestle closer to the bedside to resolve questions obviating the necessity to go into an American courtroom - that emanated from the Quinlan case.” – The Hon. Paul Armstrong, on the legacy of the New Jersey Supreme Court decision in which he was the attorney representing the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan in the mid-1970s. |
Available only on DVD, the program 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. These decisions may influence staff – affecting morale and turnover consequently directly influencing patient care as well as families struggling with grief. This program explores ethical dilemmas that are likely to arise at the end-of-life, the principles of ethical decision-making and the effects of these decisions on staff and families. Case studies will be used to illustrate ethical issues that will be addressed by the program panel.
