Abstract:
In a multicultural society with differing health beliefs and literacies, we can come across situations where parents and caregivers wish to seek solutions outside of our medical paradigms and evidence-based medical treatments. What are the ethical, legal and moral considerations when this happens?
We need to consider the benefits and challenges for nuanced ethical and legal debates in these situations and the context that they occur in.
This workshop seeks to explore some of these areas, giving participants space to explore the ethical frameworks that can inform decisions and to enable us to evaluate and respond to these dilemmas as we seek to provide the best care to our patients and their families.
Biography:
Mrs. Heather Hanna studied both adult and paediatric nursing in a joint course at the Charles West School of Nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London qualifying as a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse in 1989. She also qualified as an RN in the State of Washington, practicing there for 3 years in Infant Intensive Care Unit and then as a Research Nurse at Children’s Hospital, Seattle. Her career was mostly spent in Neonatal Intensive Care before she moved into Research at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington where she also obtained her MSc in Allergy (dist.) from Imperial College London. Some ten years ago, she moved into Medical Education and obtained her MEd in University Lecturing and Teaching from Imperial College. Her roles are now split between Undergraduate Medical Education working in the Medical Ethics and Law Team and Postgraduate Medical Education as Clinical Teaching Fellow on the online Applied Paediatrics MSc course, both at Imperial College London.
