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Alert: Medical Ethics Advisor now awards nursing contact hours, but please be aware that the January, February, and March 2018 issues do not offer that particular credit. Subscribers can still earn credits from more current issues or by rereading past issues that offer credit and taking the online test with a passing score.

Making medical ethics decisions, concerns about patient confidentiality, consent, competency, potential liability, treatment costs, and family wishes often are compounded by the conflicting demands of the government, the judiciary, healthcare providers, and patients. 

Medical Ethics Advisor focuses on these issues so you can understand how biological, legal, financial, and moral viewpoints interrelate and shape the decision-making you encounter in your practice. Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Medical Ethics Advisor.

Medical Ethics Advisor Covers:

• Palliative care and end-of-life care and decision-making
• Ethical consults and ethical decision-making in the hospital setting
• Ethical and moral issues that physicians and nurses face
• Organizing ethics committees and facilitating communication between committee members and hospital staff
• Ethics in research and in emerging technologies such as genetic testing
• And much more...

Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from  Medical Ethics Advisor.

Faculty

Physician Editor:

Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD
Director and Professor
Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Institute for Health and Society
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee

Nurse Planner:

Susan Solverson, BSN, RN, CMSRN,
Retired

Editorial Advisory Board:

John D. Banja, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Rehabilitation 
Medicine, Emory University
Atlanta

J. Vincent Guss, Jr., DMin, BCC
Clinical Ethicist/Bioethics Professor
Georgetown University 
School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Marc D. Hiller, DrPH 
Associate Professor
Department of Health 
Management and Policy
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH

Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH 
President
Hofmann Healthcare Group
Moraga, CA

Melissa Kurtz, MSN, MA, RN
Bioethics Consultant
The Montefiore-Einstein Center 
for Bioethics
Bronx, NY

Objectives:

• Discuss new developments in regulation and healthcare system approaches to bioethical issues applicable to specific healthcare systems; 
• Explain the implications of new developments in bioethics as they relate to all aspects of patient care and healthcare delivery in institutional settings; and
• Discuss the effect of bioethics on patients, their families, physicians, and society.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for acute care physicians, chiefs of medicine, hospital administrators, nurse managers, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, members of ethics committees, and chaplains.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

Relias LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (18 per year). Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Relias LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours [1.50] will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion. California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP#13791.

This CE activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.

Expiration

This activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.

Instructions For Participation

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment and an evaluation, they will receive their credit letter.