Online Workshop:

Ethical Decision-Making in Health Care Settings

Facilitated by Doug Bowen-Bailey

This workshop was offered in May and June. We will be taking what we learned from our offerings and refining it for furture offerings.

About the Workshop

Led by the research and writing of Robyn Dean and Robert Pollard, interpreting has begun to see itself as a practice profession.  Like doctors and lawyers, interpreters never reach some place of perfection, but instead continue to practice our craft and develop our skills in the context of discussion with our colleagues. This online workshop offers the opportunity to be in discussion with other interpreters about our practice in medical settings, particularly when it comes to the ethical choices we have to make as interpreters.  We will explore frameworks for ethical decision-making - and apply them in discussions of dilemmas from health-care settings.

Process:

Using an online bulletin board, both in real-time discussion and more traditional asychronous discussion, participants will share their perspectives and ideas on ethical frameworks for decision-making using case studies from health care settings. Doug Bowen-Bailey will be the primary faciltator of these discussions.

Objectives

We will not achieve perfection, but participants will be able to:

• identify at least 3 frameworks for ethical-decision making;
• list the criteria of ethical decision-making expected in our field as assessed in the NIC interview process;
• articulate their own decision-making process in multiple scenarios.
• identify further resources for continued professional development in this area.