Brown Bag Ethics Seminar - B. Parke, J. Bell: Discharge Planning : Making the Everyday Ethical

Presenters:
Bob Parke
Ethicist, Humber River Regional Hospital

Jennifer Bell
Ethics Fellow, Joint Centre for Bioethics
University of Toronto

Location:
Baycrest Hospital
Ben and Hilda Katz Building
2nd Floor
Classrooms ABC

This presentation illustrates how the daily activity of discharge planning is filled with many ethical issues having a significant impact on our patients, their families, ourselves as staff and the institutions in which we work. The presentation provides an overview of the ethical issues in discharge planning, a simple case study to highlight the ethical issues and concludes with a discussion about how discharge planning impacts staff and the moral distress which is felt.