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Ethics and Workforce Wellbeing

  • Introduction to clinical ethics (principles, frameworks for decision-making, best practices)
  • Practical application of clinical ethics strategies and frameworks into the everyday healthcare setting.
  • Moral distress in healthcare providers
  • Wellness and resilience for those in healthcare and helping professions
  • Professional boundaries
  • Trauma informed ethics consultations
  • Integrating narrative ethics and feminist ethics into clinical ethics practice
  • Establishing ethical frameworks, policies and processes for a healthcare practice or clinic

Nephrology and Kidney Transplant

  • Psychosocial evaluation of transplant candidates
  • Ethical and practical considerations in kidney transplantation
  • Psychosocial considerations that may impact transplant listing and candidacy and outcomes
  • Collaboration between dialysis units and transplant centers to optimize transplant candidacy and waitlisting
  • Working with cognitively impaired dialysis and transplant patients (including dementia)
  • Professional boundaries in the renal setting
  • Financial challenges to living donation, and available resources
  • Transitioning from pediatric to adult care
  • Role and contributions of the transplant social worker

Patients and Patient Advocacy

  • Organ donation and transplantation
  • Overview of kidney transplant evaluation and candidacy
  • Navigating the complex challenges inherent in the healthcare system
  • New health diagnosis – what do I do?
  • Adjusting to and coping with chronic illness
  • Family strategy to raising a child with chronic illness