Practicing Practical Professional Ethics

6/7/2014 • 3 CEUs

Tune up your ethical decision making skills with this practical session focusing on the obligations of a healthcare professional and the ethical decisions faced in everyday practice.  Topics will be woven with actual case studies and real stories from twenty years of regulating health care professionals in two states.

Topics will include:
  • Exploring models and concepts of professionalism in health care practice;
  • Discussion of the roles and responsibilities of the doctor patient relationship;
  • The "slippery slope" of boundary issues and how they can destroy your professional practice and reputation;
  • Concepts of accountability to patients, colleagues, health care reimbursement system, the dental profession and the law, with an emphasis on key provisions of the Arizona Dental Practice Act;
  • Applying and interpreting the ADA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct; and
  • Ethical obligations like informed consent, competence, over-diagnosis, dealing with bad outcomes

Schedule:

7:30 - 8:00am - Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 11:00am - Course
 
 


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