Ethics for the Whole Person

Options for attending include in person (depending on community COVID information) or virtual (link will be provided prior to the conference date).

Participant will be able to discuss:

• Ethics of care and how it affects the patient care team and patients and their loved ones.

• Application of ethics in a broad spectrum of cultures, beliefs, and individual circumstances.

• Determination ethical rights, responsibilities and freedoms within relationships involving patients, their loved ones, and patient care team in the medical setting.

Katherine Brown-Saltzman will present the keynote, Ethics of Care. Katherine is the former co-director and a co-founder of the UCLA Health Ethics Center. Katherine’s work in ethics is a natural extension of her clinical practice which began in pediatric oncology and then focused on end-of-life care. She has been active in developing interdisciplinary programs on sustaining self-care, moral distress, and ethics education, including jointly developing a clinical ethics fellowship at UCLA. Katherine co-founded and has been president of Ethics of Caring, a non-profit that has provided annual ethics conferences for Southern California since 1993. She lectures nationally and internationally, has developed ethics and end of life care policies and has published on such diverse topics as, ethics, professional self-care, end-of-life care, bereavement, spirituality, psychosocial care, guided imagery and cultural issues. In her retirement, she continues to serve as president of Ethics of Caring and is a lecturer for the UCLA School of Nursing’s DNP Program.

In addition to her keynote presentation on Ethics of Care, Katherine will be presenting Healing as an Ethical Mandate. Other topics presented by Essentia Health, Sanford Health and UND Medical School include freedom and human dignity, patients' rights and responsibilities, consideration of family, culture and social context in ethical dilemmas, unrepresented patients, and trauma informed care. There will be a panel representing different faith traditions discussing spirituality and belief systems to consider in addressing ethical dilemmas.

Registration closes on April 22, 2022. Any cancellation after this date will result in no refund. Please include your credentials when submitting your registration.

Essentia Health is accredited by the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Essentia Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program offers 6.75 contact hours of continuing education. Most medical professional organizations accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. It is the individual's responsibility to determine whether an education activity meets the continuing education requirements of their respective licensures and/or professional boards. Go to your respective organization’s website for more detailed information regarding credit requirements.

Approved Continuing Education for ND and MN Boards of Social Work. Certificate of attendance will be provided for 6.75 contact hours.

Host or Publisher Essentia Health, Sanford Health and UND School of Medicine