Description:
This course is designed to explore the responsibility of the social worker in understanding their professional ethical standards and how they relate to every day end of life care. Explanation of why ethical considerations are important will be discussed, as well as exploration of when the participant's own ethics may be blurred. Participants will be encouraged to participate in self exploration for a greater understanding of future personal growth.

Objectives:

• Participant will explain why ethical considerations are important to the social workers's role in end of life care.
• Participant will relate social work ethics to everyday and end of life care.
• Participant will describe when the participant's own ethics may be blurred.

**** Hospice Education Network, provider #1182, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Hospice Education Network maintains responsibility for the program.

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