Articles Tagged With: HEC-C
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Task Force Aims to Grow HEC-C Program
The Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) designation is advancing the overall professionalization of the field of ethics. The certification advances the quality of ethics consultations and puts ethicists on a level playing field with clinical counterparts.
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Ethicists View HEC-C as One Step Toward Professionalization
The demand for ethics work is rising, but most individuals who conduct consults are clinicians who work as volunteers. Leaders must identify and address all kinds of ethical issues, which requires employing the right people with relevant and specific knowledge and skills.
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More Than 300 Clinical Ethicists Have Earned HEC-C Credential
One year in, the program is popular, but questions remain regarding the certification's importance to administrators when they are evaluating skills and making hiring decisions.