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Ethics Rounds for Veterinary Teams: A Key Wellbeing Support

Room B

Virtual
1 CE Hour
Ethics, General

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Description

Ethically challenging situations are commonly encountered in veterinary settings, sometimes leading to moral distress. Moral distress is a risk factor for mental health concerns including suicide as well as role and career attrition. In this session, we will outline the approach to facilitation of ethics rounds in both the United States and Australia and discuss outcomes of ethics rounds. In addition, we will discuss how ethics rounds may help mitigate moral distress and contribute to veterinary team member wellbeing.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Veterinarian
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to offer participants the opportunity to learn about the way that ethics rounds can support wellbeing on veterinary teams.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe at least two kinds of ethical conflicts and dilemmas that arise in veterinary medicine.

  • Explain the structure and goal of ethics rounds for veterinary teams.

  • Evaluate the impact that ethics rounds can have on wellbeing in veterinary medicine

Ethics
General
Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, 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 as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Ethics continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

Veterinarian

This program has been approved for 1 hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by International Association of Veterinary Social Work . There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Anne Quain BVSc, PhD

Dr. Anne Quain, BVSc, PhD is a veterinarian with additional qualifications in the field of animal welfare. Anne is interested in all aspects of small animal health, particularly animal welfare. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists Animal Welfare Chapter, and a Diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behaviour Medicine in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. Her PhD research explored the types of ethically challenging situations encountered by veterinary team members, and evaluated the impact of ethics rounds.

Page Buck, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Page Buck is an embedded social worker at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine and a professor of graduate social work at West Chester University. 

 

Dr. Buck’s practice and research focus on the human-animal dynamic, with a specific interest in the ways that animals impact the social-emotional functioning of children on the autism spectrum. She teaches courses on both mental health and animal-assisted interventions to graduate students, often including them in her research work. 

 

At Penn Vet, Dr. Buck meets with veterinary students, interns, residents, and staff to address issues of workplace stress that often accompany veterinary medicine. She is committed to developing ways that social workers can partner with the veterinary community to support all humans involved in the care of animals.

Joann Slack DVM, DACIVM

Dr. JoAnn Slack is an Associate Professor of Large Animal Cardiology and Ultrasound at the University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center and is board certified in Internal Medicine. She chairs the Clinical Ethics and House Officer Oversight Committees at New Bolton Center and leads monthly ethics rounds for all clinical staff. Her primary research interests are focused in equine cardiology but also collaborates on research of moral distress in veterinary medicine.

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