Level One Health Ethics Workshop Week One Presentation

1. LEVEL ONE HEALTH ETHICSLEVEL ONE HEALTH ETHICS
WORKSHOPWORKSHOP
WEEK ONEWEEK ONE

2. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONSWELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
• Why I’m here
• Workshop overview
• Stories of success

3. • for making this a safe space
to share.

4. GOALS OF LEVEL 1 HEALTH ETHICSGOALS OF LEVEL 1 HEALTH ETHICS
WORKSHOPWORKSHOP
• Introduce ethical theories
• Learn about our own ethical values
• Explore ethics in healthcare roles,
responsibilities and relationships.
• Apply ethical perspectives to real-life
scenarios.

5. HEALTH ETHICSHEALTH ETHICS
History
• Hippocrates
• 20th
Century
developments in
health sciences

6. HEALTH ETHICSHEALTH ETHICS
DEFINITIONDEFINITION
Ethics: a systematic approach for
understanding ourselves as persons and how
we make moral decisions. It is a critical and
reflective examination of how we ought to
live in relation to others
(Aultman, 2006)

7. WHAT’S AN ETHICS ISSUE?WHAT’S AN ETHICS ISSUE?
• Desire to do the right
thing
• Conflict in beliefs or
values

8. MORAL PROBLEMS?MORAL PROBLEMS?
• Moral Sensitivity
• Moral Uncertainty
• Moral Dilemma
• Moral Distress
• Moral Residue

9. MORAL SENSITIVITYMORAL SENSITIVITY
• Ability to Empathize with the distress of others
• Ability to discern morally salient dimensions of an
issue
• To be aware of ethically justified options for
addressing issues
• Ability to see how one’s actions affect self/others
• The capacity to respond in an emotionally balanced,
ethically grounded and compassionate manner.

10. MORAL UNCERTAINTYMORAL UNCERTAINTY
• “Something is not
quite right”
• Unsure of what
moral problem is
• May stay silent

11. MORAL DILEMMAMORAL DILEMMA
• Moral conflict
• Obligation to pursue
two or more mutually
exclusive options
• No obvious reason to
prefer one over the
other

12. MORAL DISTRESSMORAL DISTRESS
Occurs when
• You know the right thing to do
but are unable to do it for some
reason
• there is a difference between
what you believe is right, and
what you do

13. MORAL RESIDUEMORAL RESIDUE
• Leftover emotional
turmoil
• May remain for years
• Cumulative
• Can affect desire to
remain in profession

14. SHARING STORIES OF SUCCESSSHARING STORIES OF SUCCESS

15. 5 W’s 1 H5 W’s 1 H
Summarize the problem
• Who
• What
• Where
• When
• Why
• How

16. DISCUSSION FORUMDISCUSSION FORUM
• Post an example of a situation
that resolved successfully
• Discuss elements, values,
attitudes, approaches that
contributed to success
• Please remember to de-identify
your story

17. ETHICS…
If it’s about doing the
right thing…
Then why is it
sometimes so
difficult to
know what to
do?
?

18. NAVIGATING ETHICAL CHALLENGESNAVIGATING ETHICAL CHALLENGES
• Examining
personal values
• Justifying one’s
moral position
• Conflicts
• Communication

19. ETHICAL THEORIESETHICAL THEORIES
• Values
• Virtues
• Consequentialism
• Deontology
• Principles
• Relational

20. HomeworkHomework
• Read Section One in your workbook
• Complete the Values activity

21. Next weekNext week
• Value Theory
• Virtue Theory