Navigating Ethical Challenges Arising from Mental Health Treatment Scarcity

Pittsburgh, PA US
May 9, 2023

The purpose of this educational activity is to enable participants to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas surrounding mental health treatment scarcity.

Target Audience

ISD Clinical Staff

Learning Objectives

RN & SW Learning Objectives:  

  1. Discuss the root historical and systemic causes which have contributed to our current mental health crisis
  2. Identify ethical dilemmas which arise due to mental health treatment scarcity
  3. Examine ethical dilemmas in ways that result in better mental health care delivery and decreased provider moral distress

Pharmacy Learning Objectives:

  1. Reflect on personal ability to identify ethical dilemmas surrounding mental health treatment
  2. Discuss potential strategies to resolve ethical dilemmas and improve the delivery of care in the mental health treatment settings
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
04/07/2023
Course expires: 
06/09/2023
Event starts: 
05/09/2023 - 10:00am EDT
Event ends: 
05/09/2023 - 11:00am EDT
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Program begins at 10:00am and ends at 11:00am. Total Education Time = 1 Hour(s)

TIME

CONTENT

PRESENTER

10:00 am – 10:20 am

Historical and systemic causes which have contributed to our current mental health crisis

Michael Redinger, MD, MA

10:20 am – 10:40 am

Ethical dilemmas which arise due to mental health treatment scarcity

Michael Redinger, MD, MA

10:40 am – 11:00 am

Resolution of ethical dilemmas in ways that result in better mental health care delivery and decreased provider moral distress

Michael Redinger, MD, MA

UPMC Health Plan
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15209
United States
Dr. Michael Redinger, MD, MA
Associate Professor, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed)
 
Dr. Michael Redinger is an Associate Professor at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed). He is dually appointed in the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law, for which he serves as Co-Chair, and the Department of Psychiatry. He also serves as the current Young Physician Section representative on the Michigan State Medical Society Board of Directors, as an Alternate Delegate from Michigan to the American Medical Association, and as the Inaugural Unit Head of the WMed Unit of the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

His myriad of research interests include clinical ethics, psychiatric ethics, religion, and medicine, Catholic health care ethics, and medical professionalism.  He has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, CHEST, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The American Journal of Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, as well as popular media including The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, America: The Jesuit Review, and Commonwealth magazine.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 1 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit(s).
 
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 contact hour(s).

CCM CE will be provided:  1 CE  - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.

This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics.  Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 1 CE credit(s).

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit(s).

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

NOTE:  Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved.  This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
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