Suggested Audience
Medical Providers, Nurse Case Managers, Adjusters
Moderator
- Suzy Douglas, RN, Medical Services Coordinator, BWC
Presenter
- Kate Payne, JD, RN, NC-BC, Associate Professor of Nursing, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Session Description
Health care ethics is about the standards of behavior that inform us how human being ought to act related to the care of patients. Broadly speaking, the ethics of occupational medicine is to improve the health of the population by identifying work related health risks and treating related disease and injury. The health of the company is closely tied to the health of the employee. At the end of this presentation participants will be able to:
- Define and describe ethics in the care of patients and workers as patients.
- Identify principles of medical ethics and how they apply in occupational health.
- Compare and contrast ethical obligations in clinical care with those in occupational health.
- Formulate an approach for dealing with ethical dilemmas with working patients.
Up Next: Networking Break (Visit Exhibitors next door) then Breakout Sessions at 11 AM