Ethical Challenges with COVID-19
How to Respond to Ethical Challenges and Moral Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We offer a free complete 50-minute webinar, as well as 4 Quick Videos of key highlights. Registration is necessary to watch the complete webinar; or you can click on any of the Quick Videos below to watch them. In these videos, you will learn ethical frameworks, standards of care, and moral distress related to the care of the COVID-19 patient.
Full Webinar:
How to Respond to Ethical Challenges and Moral Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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COVID-19 Vaccines: Ethical Considerations for Nurses
Hear from the American Nurses Association about the ethical considerations used to inform policy decisions regarding mandatory vaccinations for nurses in this 40-minute video.
Quick Videos:
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Understanding the Framework for Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas
This 6-minute quick video examines frameworks for making ethical decisions.
Conventional and Contingency Standards of Care
This 15-minute quick video examines the application of conventional and contingency standards of care during the COVID-19 pandemic and surge capacity states, and managing scare resources.
Crisis standards of care
This 10-minute quick video examines the Code of Ethics, crisis standards of care, and managing scarce resources.
Recognizing and Dealing with Moral Distress
This 12-minute quick video examines Moral Distress, how to map your moral distress, and how to manage it.
SPEAKER:
Our Speakers:
Laura B. Webster D.BE, RN, HEC-C
Dr. Webster serves as the Bioethics Program Director at Virginia Mason in Seattle, Washington. She earned a Master's in Bioethics and Humanities with an emphasis in clinical ethics from the University of Washington in 2012 and completed her Doctorate in Bioethics specializing in organizational ethics from Loyola University Chicago in 2017. Dr Webster was one of the first Healthcare Ethics Consultants to gain Certification in the United States in January of 2019.
Lucia Wocial PhD, RN, FAAN, HEC-C
Dr. Webster serves as a Nurse Ethicist and Adjunct Assistant Professor Nursing at the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics (FCME) at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a Faculty mentor for the clinical ethics fellowship at FCME and serves as the Project director for the Woltman Inter-professional Communication Project with the Indiana University School of Nursing. Dr. Wocial is also the “IMPACT” program leader at Indiana University Health.
Our Moderator:
Liz Stokes, JD, MA, RN
Liz is the Director for the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights. Liz Stokes has deep expertise in writing public policy on ethical issues including medical marijuana, assisted death, intellectual disabilities, and women's reproductive health. Her areas of expertise include bioethics, nursing ethics and substance use disorder in nursing. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.
Made possible by the generosity of the American Nurses Foundation.
