Grant: Dissemination Events - Priority Announcement: Ethics

This proposal seeks $25,000.00 to fund 25 Ethics Education Program scholarships for healthcare professionals in Ontario's Champlain LHIN (Local Health Integration Network). These scholarships will be awarded to individual from healthcare organizations that have no formal ethics support. The Ethics Education Program (EEP) is a 10 session program designed for and offered to healthcare professionals throughout the Champlain LHIN. The purpose of this program is to build the capacity of healthcare professionals and their respective institutions through a curriculum focused on ethical principles, models of ethics service, dominant ethical issues, and ethics consultation. The applicants to this grant have successfully implemented versions of the EEP in 2010 and 2011. The 2011 edition of the EEP was funded by CIHR through a Meetings, Planning and Dissemination grant, and was highly successful. This grant allowed 25 individuals from the LHIN to register for the program with full scholarships. All particiapnts who completed an evaluation of the 2011 offering said they would recommend the EEP to others. For 2012, the intention is to modify the curriculum by adding modules on moral distress, as well as required ethics standards laid out by Accreditation Candada.