Clinical ethics and COVID-19
2021Clinical ethics and COVID-19Free
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What should I do when PPE is limited?How should I prioritise my family’s well-being and doing my job?How do I work with resource scarcity? The COVID-19 pandemic has created
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DESIGNED FOR
Clinical ethics and COVID-19 is designed for clinicians in hospital settings and primary care. It is intended for medical, nursing and allied health staff. It would also be useful for students training for these health professions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Clinical ethics principles
- What’s different in a pandemic?
- Steps of ethical decision-making
- Balancing and moral regret
- Health resources in a pandemic
- Ethical criteria for resource allocation
- Fair process
- Duty to provide care
- Protecting health professionals
- Balancing health professionals’ safety with the duty to provide care
COURSE UNITS
- Tutorial 1: Clinical ethics – what’s different in a pandemic?
- Tutorial 2: Allocation of scarce resources
- Tutorial 3: Health professionals’ role
List of particular knowledge or skills obtained through course
- Use the steps of ethical decision-making to structure a challenging decision
- Understand the nature of moral regret and moral distress, and productive responses to these experiences
- Know the three key ethical considerations for resource allocation in a pandemic
- Articulate the elements of a fair process when allocating resources and prioritising patients in a pandemic
- Use a framework of questions to guide decision-making about ethically acceptable levels of protection for health professionals
ASSESSMENT
There is no assessment requirement for this course, however each tutorial has embedded self-assessments and end of tutorial case study.
A Certificate of Completion is provided upon satisfactory completion of the course.
DELIVERY MODE
Course completion requires approximately ~3 hours of elearning.
Students have the flexibility to study in their own time and location. Program materials can be accessed through the eLearning Education app on mobiles and tablets with iOS, Android or Windows systems. Program materials can also be accessed using a web browser.
Time
Year Around Event (2021)
Location
Online