Clinical Ethics – What is the Chaplain’s Role?
How chaplains are involved in clinical ethics varies widely from organization to organization. This webinar will provide an overview of how clinical ethics is integrated into healthcare, best practices of chaplain involvement, and the state of the field of spirituality within healthcare ethics.
We thank Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification Commission, a legal entity of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, for their support of this event. Learn more here.
This event is for Subscriber and Innovator level users of the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, who may register here.If you’d like to join the Lab and gain access to this webinar and much more, you can do so right here.
This webinar’s learning outcomes have been indexed to ACPE and APC BCCI rubrics, but should not be construed as endorsement by either organization:
ACPE D.2.IIA.12 Demonstrate one’s ability to use spiritual resources in addressing spiritual and organizational well-being.
ACPE D.3.IB.15 Articulate how one uses spiritual assessments when one provides spiritual care.
ACPE E.2.IIA.17 Demonstrate knowledge of ethical principles / theories used in spiritual care contexts.
APC OL1 Promote the integration of spiritual care into the life and service of the institution in which one functions.
APC OL4 Advocate for and facilitate ethical decision-making in one’s workplace.
We’ll be joined by:
Dr. Olivia Schuman is Clinical Ethicist at Norton Healthcare and Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She specializes in bioethics, particularly reproductive ethics and clinical ethics. Among other things, she teaches classes in the MA in Health Care Ethics.
Dr. Schuman completed a fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, where she served as a clinical ethicist and researcher at Houston Methodist Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. She enjoys mentoring students by providing them opportunities to shadow her clinical ethics work in the hospital.
Her recent publications in clinical ethics include a discussion on unilateral withdrawal of life-sustaining technologies against patient wishes; the ethics of allocating scarce resources based on covid-19 vaccination status; and tools for mitigating the risk of manipulation during video-calls between medical teams and patients’ families.
Her work has been published in well-known scholarly journals including Bioethics, American Journal of Bioethics, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and she has been interviewed several times for the Medical Ethics Advisor. Her favorite publication, however, is still her first one— a discussion on providing an ethical response to staff concerns of paranormal activity in the hospital, published in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.
This event is sponsored by the HCEC Certification Commission, a legal entity of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Learn more at Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification.
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