Ethics Education and Support

Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics provides ongoing ethics education and support to our institutional members (including interdisciplinary teams, senior leadership, boards of directors, patient-family advocacy councils, volunteers, ethics committees, research ethics boards, etc.) to continue to build capacity for quality health care across Northern Ontario. Some examples of professional development topics that the Centre can offer include:

• Professional communication and team building
• Ethical Decision Making (using frameworks, tools, and resources)
• Harm Reduction and Safety in the Workplace
• Consent, Capacity, & Substitute Decision Makers
• Respect, Diversity, & Belonging in the Workplace
• Accreditation Support
• Autonomy, Choices, & Risk
• AI in Health Care Practice
• Moral Distress & Moral Injury
• Palliative & End-of-Life Care Challenges