Transforming Moral Distress to Moral Resilience: One of Our Toughest Pediatric Cases
hosted byBaptist Health South Florida
Transforming Moral Distress to Moral Resilience: One of Our Toughest Pediatric Cases is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.
Course opens: 05/01/2019
Course expires: 04/30/2024
Description:
Moral distress is commonly experienced by healthcare professionals when faced with ethically challenging end-of-life cases. When the care involves a child and family with complex medical and psychosocial issues secondary to accidental death, there is a greater level of moral distress felt among healthcare professionals. Learn how a healthcare team cultivated moral resilience while caring for a child who was declared brain-dead.
Objectives:
• Describe the ethical challenges and moral distress experienced by healthcare professionals while caring for pediatric patients at the end of life.
• Define and understand the concept of moral resilience.
• Utilize effective strategies to cultivate moral resilience in clinical practice and to manage moral distress.
