Patient Autonomy – The Right to Make Bad Decisions_Enduring

This session will explore the motivations and needs of patients who do not see eye-to-eye with their clinicians. Often when patients disagree with a recommendation or refuses a specific treatment, the healthcare team questions patient capacity; but patients needn't be lacking decisional capacity to disagree with experts. 

Target Audience

UPMC Health Plan Clinical Staff

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 

  • Review principles of bioethics and care ethics
  • Examine concepts of shared decision-making and patient-centered care
  • Discuss balancing patient wishes and clinical obligations

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 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 Attendance
Course opens: 
07/18/2025
Course expires: 
07/18/2028

Dean Paradis, MSN, RN, CCM – Manager, Clinical Training & Quality Assurance at UPMC Health Plan 

Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc - Director, Medical Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University and Medical Ethicist, UPMC Presbyterian, Shadyside, and Western Psych

All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity have disclosed all financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships for the individuals listed below have been mitigated. 

CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE 

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 


DISCLAIMER STATEMENT 

The information presented at this CME program represents the views and opinions of the individual presenters, and does not constitute the opinion or endorsement of, or promotion by, the UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, UPMC / University of Pittsburgh Medical Center or Affiliates and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Reasonable efforts have been taken intending for educational subject matter to be presented in a balanced, unbiased fashion and in compliance with regulatory requirements. However, each program attendee must always use his/her own personal and professional judgment when considering further application of this information, particularly as it may relate to patient diagnostic or treatment decisions including, without limitation, FDA-approved uses and any off-label uses. 

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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.

Nursing (CNE) 
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hours. 

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. 

Available Credit

  • 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 Attendance
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