Northwestern Events Calendar

May
22
2018

Combined NMH Medical Ethics Grand Rounds and Schwartz Rounds - Strengthening Moral Agency - Lucia Wocial

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Feinberg Pavilion, 3rd floor, Pritzker Auditorium, 251 E. Huron , Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Bryan Morrison   (312) 503-1927

Group: Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Events

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

NMH Medical Ethics presents

Combined Ethics Grand Rounds and Schwartz Rounds

with

Lucia Wocial, PhD, RN, FAAN

Strengthening Moral Agency

Dr. Wocial is the nurse ethicist and is part of the faculty for the clinical ethics fellowship at the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics (FCME) at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. She leads the Unit Based Ethics Conversation (UBEC) program and is an active member of the ethics consultation service. Dr. Wocial created the Moral Distress Thermometer, an instrument that is used to measure moral distress of clinical care providers. Her current research focuses on interventions to reduce moral distress and increase moral agency of professional caregivers.

Moderator:
M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA BCC
Medical Ethics, Program Manager
Chaplain, Spiritual Care & Education

Medical Ethics Committee is pleased to announce this year's programs to engage you, challenge you and invite you to share your insights into patient care. The purpose of these sessions is to promote ethical decision-making in health care.

Schwartz Center Rounds is a multidisciplinary forum where caregivers discuss difficult emotional and social issues that arise in caring for patients.

This event is not presented by the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. We are sharing it here with permission.

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