Exploring Ethical Issues

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Ethical issues that may arise if different areas of practice

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18-19 hours

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Andrea Sturm

Andrea is a neurological physiotherapist from Austria. She has a special interest in Ethics and Mental Health.

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Introduction

The previous courses in this ethics programme have considered general strategies to identify, reflect, discuss, resolve and evaluate ethical issues with reference to our personal and professional codes of practice. In this last course we delve deeper into specific areas of practice and certain prominent considerations for all areas of practice. The course explores private practice and palliative care, culturally competency and professional relationships, telemedicine and sports medicine. You will be able to apply the things learned on this course into any part of your professional life.

Aims

The aim of this course is to expand on your experiences of ethical issues in various professional practice settings and give you the confidence to resolve these dilemmas in all aspects of your practice.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

Ethical issues in private practice
Cultural competence
Ethical issues and end of life care
Sexual Harassment
Telehealth
Ethical issues in Sports

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 18-19 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 17.8 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive your course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

Respect the Plus Community Culture.
Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

list at least 6 ethical issues specific to private practice
identify a course of action based upon examples of ethical issues
describe at least 6 important ethical issues raised in palliative care
discuss the role of the physiotherapist in palliative care
select the highest risk factor linked with inappropriate patient sexual behaviour
describe 4 implications for the patient-healthcare practitioner relationship resulting from health-related Internet information
discuss the role of the physiotherapist in preventing ethical issues in the sporting context

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

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For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews

This course has helped me to become more aware of many aspects of ethical decision making and my responsibility for continuing to grow in this area to ensure I am a good clinician. It has also made me more aware of the available research on the issues that health care workers face daily in all different aspects of their jobs.

Suene Corlia Henegan

Physiotherapist

South Africa

Great course! Provides physiotherapists with ways of looking at ethics in the sport they may not have thought of before.

Dan Zukiwsky

Physiotherapist

Canada

As I work in South Africa, learning about the African cultural perspectives to health was fascinating.

Dayne Haworth

Physiotherapist

South Africa

I always enjoy Andrea's courses! She has a wealth of knowledge, and the discussions are very interesting.

Lauren Thompson

Physiotherapist

South Africa

Ethics made interesting! Wow! A relevant thought-provoking course. I encourage all physios to do it.

Marianne Mundell

Physiotherapist

South Africa

Really enjoyed completing this course! I found the information very relevant to all physiotherapy settings and it has made me think about my ways of practice and how I could slightly alter these, keeping in mind the variety of cultures, religions, backgrounds and belief systems of people that we treat

Lezane Ward

Physiotherapist

South Africa

I enjoyed the scope of this course as it touched on various areas of practice in physiotherpay where ethical issues are paramount.

Shelley Mason

Physiotherapist

South Africa

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Introduction

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Target audience

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Learning outcomes

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

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