Online Certificates
Description
This certificate prepares health and social services professionals to make informed, effective, and ethical decisions when working with older adults and people with disabilities. Learners explore key ethical principles, informed consent, capacity, and confidentiality, while learning to navigate everyday ethical dilemmas. The certificate also covers strategies for effective teamwork, conflict resolution, and collaborative problem-solving in care planning.
Courses
A Foundation in Ethics, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Define ethics.
- Explain the principles of bioethics.
- Describe the process of critical thinking and how it facilitates problem solving in difficult situations.
- Examine the relationship between ethics and self-determination, capacity, and decision-making.
- Describe the ethics of informed consent and confidentiality and the laws that apply to them.
Legal Principles & Decision Making in Practice
- Describe the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and justice.
- Consider why autonomy and safety can create ethical and legal problems.
- Explain why informed consent is needed, both ethically and legally.
- Summarize the different kinds of guardianships used by the courts.
- Name the different kinds of advance care directives.
Interprofessional Care Teams
- Summarize the principles of team-based care.
- Identify personal values that characterize an effective team member.
- Demonstrate ways in which teams can organize to reach maximum effectiveness.
- Illustrate factors that may lead to team conflicts and strategies for resolving conflicts.
- Describe ethical issues that may arise when working with older adults and people with disabilities.
Course Policies
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Accessibility Information
All online courses are self-paced and are designed as reading-based and include interactive multimedia components including simulations, video, audio, and discussion boards.