Conversations in Ethics: Beneficence and “Best” Interests: Shifting to a Reasonable Decision Process

September 11, 2024

Join us in September as guest speaker D. Micah Hester, Ph.D., from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, discusses the principles and framework of real-world medical and ethical dilemmas, ensuring that patient care and decision-making processes are conducted with integrity and respect for individual values and needs. 

Live webinar only. Please register for Zoom link.

Target Audience

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists and Techs, Dietitians, Social Workers, Clinical Chaplains, Medical Students and other interested healthcare professionals. 

Learning Objectives

  • Distinguish between beneficence and “best interests.”
  • Identify the limited scope of “best interests” claims.
  • Acknowledge bias in our decision making.
  • Translate a “reasonable decision process” for patients who have no one who can speak for their values and interests.
     
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
Course opens: 
08/31/2024
Course expires: 
11/23/2024
Event starts: 
09/11/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
09/11/2024 - 1:00pm EDT
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Live Webinar
FL
United States

D. Micah Hester, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor, Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Clinical Ethicist
Arkansas Children's Hospital 
Little Rock, Ar.

D. Micah Hester, Ph.D., faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan, M.D., director of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Vincent T. Barnovsky, co-coordinator of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-700581, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and by the Florida Council of Physician Assistants.

This activity has also been approved for 1 credit for Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists and Techs, Dietitians, Clinical Chaplain and Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
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