Ethical Dilemma – Family Refusal of Treatment

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ONLINECMECNE

Instructions

Monday, June 12, 2023, 8:00 AM - Thursday, June 11, 2026, 11:59 PM, Online


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hour(s) (1.00 hours), Non-Physician (Attendance) (1.00 hours)

Healthcare professionals often struggle with how to respond when parents refuse to consent to recommended treatments for their newborns. This presentation will provide those professionals with the appropriate ethical framework along with practical suggestions for handling these difficult situations.

1. Identify the challenges that arise when parents refuse recommended medical treatments.
2. Utilize pediatric ethics principles to address those challenges associated with parental refusal of recommended medical treatments.
3. Understand the ethical and legal requirements of informed consent / informed refusal in pediatrics.

1. Identify the challenges that arise when parents refuse recommended medical treatments.
2. Utilize pediatric ethics principles to address those challenges associated with parental refusal of recommended medical treatments.
3. Understand the ethical and legal requirements of informed consent / informed refusal in pediatrics.

The Pediatrix Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Pediatrix Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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The Pediatrix Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The Pediatrix Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 nursing contact hour(s). Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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The Pediatrix Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies during the past 24 months prior to their involvement with the CE activity. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

There is no commercial support for this educational activity.       

Please note: the content of this educational activity was originally presented at NEO: The Conference for Neonatology on February 22, 2023, which was supported in part, through restricted medical education grants from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Nutrition.