Presented By: Anita Catlin, DNSc, FNP, FAAN
December 2011

Each day clinicians face ethical dilemmas in the area of maternal child health. Our guest speaker and expert bioethicist, provided guidance on issues regarding maternal toxicology, adoption and infant relinquishment, responses to imperiled newborns and conscientious objection, prenatal education and perinatal hospice. The entire healthcare team will benefit from this education session.

Objectives:

• Define role of ethicist in a health care setting
• Delineate potential differences in goals in clinical care
• Respond to individual ethical dilemmas considering benefit versus burden
• React to current ethical dilemmas in perinatal health care