Ethics and Whistleblowing in Healthcare

This workshop will emphasize the intersection between ethics, law, and whistleblowing as mechanisms for accountability in healthcare organizations. Learners will be able to identify that ethics are not just theoretic postulations and will be able relate theory and ethics to praxis, regulation, and law.

For the ethics portion of this webinar, learners will be provided case studies to emphasize the real consequence of ethics and theory as these concepts relate to everyday practice. Participants will learn mechanisms of accountability to healthcare practioners. Participants will be present...Read moreed with best practice models that encompass the fiduciary responsibilities of the healthcare practitioner in providing the most efficacious care to patients.

Moreover, in the whistleblowing section of this webinar, the practitioner will learn the consequences to both self and patient when determining if they should blow the whistle on wrongdoing. The practitioner will also learn best practice models of whistleblowing.

The webinar will feature real case studies in which violations of ethics have occurred. Additionally, learners will be presented with quantitative and qualitative research that has an emphasis on both ethics and whistleblowing. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Differentiate and explain the relationship between professional ethics and law, specifically how ethics may be grounded in law.
  • Describe common ethics violations and review case studies of ethics violations.
  • Explain the scope and limitations of patient confidentiality.
  • List and describe the entities to which practitioners are accountable.
  • Describe key concepts and terms in professional ethics, law, and whistleblowing.
  • List five components of informed consent.
  • Identify signs of physical and sexual abuse.

Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Live Interactive Webinar

09:00 AM EST - 02:30 PM EST

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EARN 5 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Kyle J. Gilrain MS, LCSW

Kyle J. Gilrain MS, LCSW

Rambler Mental Health
Kyle Gilrain is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Social Work. Over the course of a career spanning more than three decades, Kyle has successfully operated his own private practice, and held management positions within large, complex national healthcare systems. His roles have extended across the continuum of care and have included leadership positions such as Director of Clinical Services, Director of Performance Improvement, Director of Outpatient Services, and Director of Residential Services. As part of his work, Kyle has authored and directed outcomes studies in multiple healthcare settings. In addition to his professional experience, Kyle has personal experience as a corporate whistleblower, which has taken him to highly-visible appearances on national network news, as well as, in multiple publications and legal blogs.

Agenda

9:00-9:45 - Code of Ethics and Accountability Overview

  • Overview of various codes of ethics in the healthcare profession.   

  • Review of Hippocratic Oath.   Framework of ethics for: Social Work/NASW, American Counseling Association, American Psychological Association.

  • Discussion of common and overarching themes in all healthcare codes of ethics.  


9:45-10:15 - Confidentiality & Informed Consent

  • Review of confidentiality laws.

  • Exceptions to confidentiality laws.

  • 5 Components of Informed Consent.


      10:15-10:25 – 10 Minute Break


      10:25-11:00 - Mandated Reporting

  • Common Signs of Physical Abuse, Neglect and Maltreatment.


      11:00-12:00 - From Ethical to Legal Implications

  • Cascading Transgressions.

  • Reporting malfeasance.

  • Case studies (review of real board complaints and linkage to the intersection of ethics, law, and consequence).


     12:00-12:10 – 10 Minute Break

12:10-12:15 – Whistleblowing Defined


  • Public versus private sector whistleblowing and protections.


12:15-12:45 – Terms Defined

  • Cascading transgressions.

  • Respondeat Superior.

  • Constructive discharge

  • Temporal Proximity


12:45-1:00 - Moral Distress and the Moral Maze

  • Define Moral Distress and the Moral Maze

  • Thematic causes of moral distress.


      1:00-1:35 – Frameworks for Effective Whistleblowing


  • Seven phases of whistleblowing.

  • Moral courage in whistleblowing.

  • Seven virtues of moral courage.


1:35-1:45 – 10 Minute Break


      1:45-2:30 – Their wellbeing or yours.

  • Forms of retaliation.

  • Consequences to self from retaliation.

  • Consequences to patients when we don’t speak up.

  • Review of articles of patient abuse.

  • Long-term damage to patients.


   

CE Information - Earn 5 CE Credit Hours including

5  Ethics Hour

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association
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New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
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New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
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New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
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NASW, New Jersey Chapter
This course, Ethics and Whistleblowing in Healthcare, Approval #211809-1126, provided by Rambler Mental Health is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative, which is administered by NASW-NJ. CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 through August 31, 2022. New Jersey social workers will receive 5 Clinical & Ethics CE credits for participating in this course.

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