Ethics and Professionalism
Grand Rounds—
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Against-Medical-Advice Discharges: What They Can Teach us About Respecting Patient Rights and Preventing Patient Harm

In this live webinar, VHA healthcare professionals will learn how to manage ethical issues related to against-medical-advice, or “AMA” discharges.  Dr. David Alfandre and Dr. Virginia (Ashby) Sharpe of the National Center for Ethics in Health Care will discuss using a patient-centered approach to shared-decision making as a way of respecting patient rights and preventing patient harm. The speakers will discuss how principles of harm reduction in the context of AMA discharges can also be applied to other aspects of clinical care.

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 p.m. ET

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Location: TMS Registration Link

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IntegratedEthics® Improvement Forum Call— July 8, 2019 The IntegratedEthics® Facility Workbook: An IE Program Quality Improvement Tool Considering key questions from the IntegratedEthics® (IE) Facility Workbook (IEFW) and the companion IEFW: Guide to Understanding Your Results, we will review their purpose and their relation to IE program critical success factors. We will also review a quality improvement action plan to address ethics quality gaps and hear from an IE program officer on how his IE team completes this annual activity. Date/Time: Monday, July 8, 12:00 p.m. ET Location: For audio, call VANTS line 800-767-1750 Code: 89506# For the slide presentation, join the Adobe Connect online meeting. Audience: All IE staff involved in IE program improvement Read-ahead documents: Click here. Questions: Email basil.rowland@va.gov

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Practical Ethics Resources

A podcast about a health care ethics dilemma

Popular podcasts such as This American Life often feature stores with ethical dilemmas. Act One of episode #585, "In Defense of Ignorance" features a story about the cultural differences that arise when a family becomes involved with another family member’s cancer diagnosis.