Elderwerks Continuing Education Opportunities

Elderwerks Education Team

Cultural Competency, Ethics, & Legal Topics

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to do if this happens. CC11 1.0 Ethics/ Nurse, SW, NHA Ethics and Capacity in Dementia

Learn the important legal documents as you navigate through financial, medical, and ethical decisions in dementia. Learn the importance of building a good healthcare team, and how capacity is assessed. Also included are the definitions of autonomy, beneficence, maleficence, and justice and how these terms help define ethical care for a person living with dementia. Also included are issues related to abuse and neglect. It can be difficult to decide on decisional capacity. Hear from a Neurologist about how one comes to conclusion that person is no longer of making their own decisions. CC13 1.0 Nurse, SW, NHA Difficult Cases Come in All Kinds of Packages Client and family interaction can be frustrating when cooperation with a plan of care is minimal, and progression is slow. Frustration and negative views of your client are normal reactions but can damage the client/HCP relationship. Three case studies will be presented to facilitate discussion, focusing on how mental health and aging worlds collide and ways to approach these cases. Learn ways to approach these cases with an emphasis on collaboration, strengths, perspective, and self-care for the practitioner. CC 14 1.0 Nurse, SW, NHA Ethics at End of Life Learn how practitioners can protect themselves in the decision-making chain of command for issues surrounding death. Review who has the right to make decisions on behalf of an incapacitated person and discuss how to protect an incapacitated person’s wishes and avoid a legal dispute. CC15 1.0 Cultural & Ethics/ Nurse, SW, NHA CC12 1.0 Ethics/ Nurse, SW, NHA Understanding Decisional Capacity

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