It's Complicated: A Podcast about Healthcare Ethics in Practice: Recent Episodes
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Host Marika Warren Guest Francis Bakewell DISCUSSION QUESTIONS RESOURCES Varga AI, Spehar I, Veggeland F, Skirbekk H. Factors influencing trust among colleagues in hospital settings: a systematic review. BMC Health...
Host Marika Warren, NSHEN Ethicist Guests David Henderson and Sarah Manley Simulated Patient Theofani Pitsiavas DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Host Marika Warren, NSHEN Ethicist Guests Lisa Weatherbee, Professional Practice Lead, Palliative Care, NS Health and Sarah Manley, Manager of Planning and Development with Palliative Care Network, NS Health Discussion...
with Host, Andrea Frolic and special guest James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC DISCUSSION QUESTIONS RESOURCES Podcasts: Psychedelics: Is it time to change your mind… The Critical Care Commute Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/psychedelics-is-it-time-to-change-your-mind-with-dr/id1651920943?i=1000715746659
An Education Guide for Nova Scotia Health Team Members with Marika Warren, NSHEN Ethicist and Amanda Porter, Ethics Collaboration Team Education guide for staff: Working with Patients and Substitute Decision-makers: Home...
With Host, Andrea Frolic And special guests Marie-Eve Bouthillier and Delphine Roigt DISCUSSION QUESTIONS In 2024, Quebec introduced legislation that allow for advance request for MAiD. The legislation is narrow...
with Host, Amanda Porter Special Guest, Dr. Thomas Brothers DISCUSSION QUESTIONS RESOURCES Brothers, T., Mosseler, K., Kirkland, S., Melanson, P., Barret, L., Webster, D. (2022) Unequal access to opioid agonist...
with Amanda Porter, Host and Dr. Tiffany O’Donnell, Family Physician, Wije’winen Health Centre DISCUSSION QUESTIONS RESOURCES Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction:Lived and Living Experience | Canadian Centre on...
with Amanda Porter, Host and Alana Weatherbee, Program Manager Northern Healthy Connections Society This episode is the first in our Harm Reduction series, following our 2024 conference on Harm Reduction.
with Andrea Frolic, Kirsten Krull and Diana Tikasz DISCUSSION QUESTIONS RESOURCES An ecological approach to humanizing healthcare organizations for patients, healthcare providers, and communities. Healthcare Management Forum. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/08404704241293596 Simpson, A....
Ethics Issues Related to Access to Care in Rural Communities with Host, Amanda Porter and special guest speakers: Tara Rutherford, Health Services Manager, Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital Roberta Duschene, Director of Rural and Community Sites, Central Zone, Halifax Discussion Questions Resources: Simpson, C. and McDonald, F. (2017) Rural Health Ethics. Springer 2017 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319608099 Szumer, R.T.O., Arnold, M. The Ethics of […]
How Living in Rural Locations can Affect Access to Care with Dr. Christy Simpson Ethics Collaboration Coordinator, Dept of Bioethics, Dalhousie University Discussion questions: Resources: Rethinking Rural Health Ethics – C Simpson and F McDonald (Springer 2017) http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319608099
with Dr. Fiona McDonald Discussion questions: 4. Do you agree that these are significant barriers? Resources: Moving care closer to home: three unanswered questions – Danielle Jefferies, Blog post published September 20th, 2023: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2023/09/moving- care-closer-home-three-unanswered-questions Rethinking Rural Health Ethics – C Simpson and F McDonald (Springer 2017) http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319608099
with Dr. Mark Downing Infectious Disease Specialist, NS Health Masters Program, University of Toronto and Joint Centre for Bioethics In this episode the discussion is going to explore how policies designed to address the need for infection prevention control within healthcare facilities can sometimes affect access to care.
How to Prepare for a Clinical Ethics Consultation with Melanie Goodday Therapeutic Classroom Teacher, IWK Health In this podcast episode Marika Warren and Melanie Goodday talk about how they prepare for a clinical ethics consultation. the discussion is based on a case about involuntary COVID-19 vaccination of a minor receiving inpatient psychiatric treatment. The case was published in the Journal of Clinical Ethics in the fall 2022. A full reference to the case is included here: Kious, B.M., Hesse, T., Baese, P.L. (2022) Moral Distress and Involuntary COVID-19 Vaccination of a Mature Minor Receiving Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment. Case Report. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2022 Fall;
Productive Conversations from a Patient Relations Perspective with Theresa Hawkesworth, Director, External Relations and Special Projects with Nova Scotia Health
Emotions in Ethics Consultations with Dr. Ange Cooper Psychologist, Assistant Dean Faculty Wellness Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
Ethics and Grief Support with Jocelyne Tranquilla Grief is a common experience in health care both for those who are receiving care and for those who are providing care. We hope our discussion today will provide an opportunity to explore grief and grief support through an ethics lens. Resources https://www.nshealth.ca/bereavement https://www.mygrief.ca/ https://www.refugeingrief.com/ https://whatsyourgrief.com/ https://www.centerforloss.com/ https://grief.com/
Ethics During Crisis with Marika Warren Christy Simpson Lisbeth Witthoefft Nielsen In this episode Marika Warren, Christy Simpson and Lisbeth Witthoefft Nielsen discuss the TV series ‘Five Days at Memorial’ and how ethics can help in a crisis.
Ethics and Internet Access for Patients with Toni White-Goodridge IT Education Consultation and Trainer, IWK Health Member, IWK Health Clinical Ethics Consultation Committee
Case Discussion: A Small Town Heart with Melanie Goodday Therapeutic Classroom Teacher IWK Health Co-Chair of IWK Clinical Ethics Committee Full reference to case : A Small‐Town Heart – Lahey – 2020 – Hastings Center Report – Wiley Online Library
Ethical Considerations Around Changes to the Law on MAiD with Mona Gupta, MD CM, FRCPC, PhD Psychiatrist, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal and Associate Clinical Professor, Département de Psychiatrie et d’Addictologie, Université de Montréal Chair of the Canadian Government’s Expert Panel on MAiD and Mental Illness In this podcast episode, Marika Warren talks to Dr. Mona Gupta about the type of ethical questions and concerns that the Expert Panel on MAiD and mental illness encountered in its work.
Nova Scotia Health Care Strategy for Patients with Long-Covid with Randi Munroe, Rehabilitation and Supportive Care, Nova Scotia Health A discussion on developing a care strategy for patients with Long-Covid and how patient partners were involved.
with Dr. Allen Alvarez, PhD, Ethicist, Ethics Education & Research, Fraser Health Ethics & Diversity Services (FHEDS) In this episode Marika Warren talks with Allen Alvarez about moral wellness and the challenging situations that arise as dynamic experiences. Readings: Moral Distress and its Interconnection with Moral Sensitivity and Moral Resilience: Viewed from the Philosophy of Viktor E. Frankl by Kim Lützén & Béatrice Ewalds-Kvist The interconnection between moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral resilience was explored by constructing two hypothetical scenarios based on a recent Swedish newspaper report. In the first scenario, a 77-year-old man, rational and awake, was coded as “do not resuscitate” (DNR) against his daughter’s
In this 3rd episode, Marika Warren and Amanda Porter discuss the documentary film, A Lion in the House, which looks at the lives of five children and their families as they fight and cope with childhood cancer over the course of six years.
In this episode Marika Warren and Lisbeth Witthoefft Nielsen discuss our recent Featured Article Summary release, Pandemic and Beyond: Considerations When Personal Risk and Professional Obligations Converge. by Daniel J. Benedetti, Mithya Lewis-Newby, Joan S. Roberts, and Douglas S. Diekema. Full reference for article: Pandemic and Beyond: Considerations When Personal Risk and Professional Obligations Converge. by Daniel J. Benedetti, Mithya Lewis-Newby, Joan S. Roberts, and Douglas S. Diekema. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2021, Vol 32(1): 20-34. NSHEN Featured Article Summary
Meet the NSHEN Team Today’s episode is an opportunity to meet the various folks involved in NSHEN, and become familiar with some of the voices you might hear in upcoming episodes.