Ethical Considerations for Administrative Discharge

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There are practice and process issues with respect to Administrative Discharge in the patient care setting that raise clinical ethics concerns.  

Target Audience

Healthcare providers and trainees

Learning Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify disruptive patient behavior.
  2. Apply communication tools and tactics in patient interactions.
  3. Utilize institutional resources for support.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This Enduring activity is designated for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).

  • 1.00 ASWB

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course.

    Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clinical continuing education credit(s).

  • 1.00 IPCE

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit(s) for learning and change.

  • 1.00 Participation
    UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.
Course opens: 
08/26/2025
Course expires: 
08/25/2028
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Joy K. Engblade, MD, MMM, FACP

Joy Engblade, MD graduated medical school from the University of Toledo and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. She has worked and lived in Honolulu HI, Newport Beach CA, and Bishop CA as a hospitalist and physician leader. Building on her physician leadership skills, she earned her Masters of Medical Management from the University of Southern California in 2017. She joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Kentucky in 2023 and assumed the duties of the Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine in March 2024. Due to her interest in clinical ethics and experience in hospital medicine, she joined and now co-Chairs the University of Kentucky Clinical Ethics Committee.

Caroline A. Buchanan, Ph.D., HEC-C

Caroline Buchanan is Associate Director for the Program for Bioethics and an Associate Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Internal Medicine. She has been at UK Healthcare since 2017, and before that, completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. She chairs the Pediatric Ethics Committee at Kentucky Children’s Hospital, and directs the Scholarly Concentration in Bioethics at the UK College of Medicine, in addition to serving as a clinical ethics consultant at UK Healthcare.

Joey E. Burke, MSN, MFA, RN

Joey Elizabeth Burke is a nurse ethicist in the Program for Bioethics at the University of Kentucky and is a member of the clinical ethics consult team. She rounds throughout the hospital, especially I.C.U.’s, and leads ethics education conferences for multiple units. She is committed to creating opportunities for having conversations about ethical matters long before a formal consultation is needed. She has made presentations on the code of ethics in nursing, strategies for confronting medical misinformation, and moral distress for healthcare workers.  

Joey has nineteen years of bedside nursing experience in a pediatric acute care setting. Originally from Memphis Tennessee, Joey’s education background includes a bachelor's degree in psychology from Centre, College, ADN from Midway College, master's in nursing education from Indiana Wesleyan University, and MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Kentucky University.  

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

AMA

This live activity is designated for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ANCC credit:

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 nursing contact hour(s).

ASWB ACE credit:

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1  general continuing education credits.

 

Faculty Disclosure

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months.  An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have a relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include a discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

 

Acknowledgement

In collaboration with UK Program for Bioethics.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This Enduring activity is designated for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).

  • 1.00 ASWB

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course.

    Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clinical continuing education credit(s).

  • 1.00 IPCE

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit(s) for learning and change.

  • 1.00 Participation
    UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.
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