Online Course
Ethics Programme
A comprehensive series of courses exploring ethics in physiotherapy practice
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Andrea Sturm
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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

Ethical dilemmas arise in our everyday practice. They can be between patient and therapist on an interpersonal level, within ourselves in struggling intrapersonally, within the interdisciplinary team or institution we are working in on an interprofessional or intra-organisational realm, or even related to "hot topics" in health- or socio-political fields. For some of these dilemmas it may be very challenging to finding a solution that respects all viewpoints, values and duties of the involved persons and institutions involved. For good ethical clinical decision making all healthcare practitioners should utilise a knowledge of ethics that includes an understanding of the underlying basis for ethical principles and professional frameworks for practice.

Aims

This programme of courses aims to help you identify and reflect on ethical issues in your everyday professional practice.

Outline

This programme consists of four separate online courses and an assignment:

  1. Ethical Principles and Values
  2. Frameworks for Ethical Decision Making
  3. Applied Ethical Reasoning
  4. Exploring Ethical Issues
  5. Final assignment

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy professionals, clinicians and students.

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 44-46 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 43.8 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

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

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

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

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

Courses in this programme
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Ethical Principles and Values

3.5-4 hours

1.7K

Andrea Sturm

Presented by Andrea Sturm

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Frameworks for Ethical Decision Making

5-5.5 hours

1.2K

Andrea Sturm

Presented by Andrea Sturm

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Applied Ethical Reasoning

12-13 hours

1.0K

Andrea Sturm

Presented by Andrea Sturm

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Exploring Ethical Issues

18-19 hours

658

Andrea Sturm

Presented by Andrea Sturm

Featured reviews
Truthfully, I was not expecting a great deal of information that I was going to learn. Boy, was I wrong.  I consider myself a great therapist, but the level of detail into bioethics and thought provocation on principles within bioethics challenged the ways I perceive my caseload, and how I must address potential conflicts coming forward. Not addressing these objectively will ultimately harm the patient, but also my career. Ethics should be taught in every curriculum beyond a standard lecture or two. This course was significant in adding to my awareness of ethics beyond "do no harm." Very happy overall!
Rick Thibodeau
Physiotherapist
Canada