PHEN Video Sharing Circle
The Video Sharing Circle has been put on hold for this year and may be offered in fall 2009.
Objective
The PHEN Video Sharing Circle was developed to help promote and facilitate thought and discussion about ethical issues in health care among Clinical Ethics Committees in Alberta.
Logistics
PHEN is offering two Video Circles with 8 committee members in each. Video Circle 1 features the same videos as the 2006- 2007 offering, so Committees who have participated previously should apply for Video Circle 2.
Upon registration, each committee will receive a health ethics video of approximately 10- 50 minutes duration, along with a list of suggested discussion questions and a form to share feedback and activity ideas with other committees in the Circle. Each committee will also receive a video schedule and a member contact list showing the direction of the Circle.
At the end of each month, the committee representatives will courier the video, discussion questions and feedback form to the next organization in the Circle. The next day, each committee should receive another video package from the previous committee in the Circle.
If committee representatives notice that the committee has already seen one of the videos on the list, they may ask to receive an alternate video from the PHEN library, which will be returned to PHEN at the end of the four-week period. At the end of the program, committee representatives will return the video and accompanying materials to PHEN
Duration and Cost
The programme will run from November 1, 2007- June 30, 2008. The cost is $150. Courier fees are borne by the participating organizations.
Video Selection
Video Circle 1
A Choice for K'aila
This video considers the tension between cultural and medical values by following a couple's struggle with their decision to not allow their child to receive a liver transplant.
Choices
This film outlines difficult healthcare decisions, how real people have dealt with these issues, and what decision-making tools were used.
Discussions in Bioethics
Eight vignettes address issues including genetic screening, euthanasia, sterilization, religion, resource allocation, withholding/withdrawing treatment, quality of life, rights of the mentally ill, and experimental science.
The Ethics Committee
Part I, explains what an ethics committee is and how it serves patients and their families. Part II outlines five essential building blocks needed to establish an effective ethics committee.
Ethics Consultation: Responding to Ethics Concerns
Part I gives an introduction to ethics consultation in health care. Part II presents a step-by-step approach to ethics case consultation in health care ethics.
For Goodness Sake I
In a series of hilarious vignettes, this film explores goodness: what it is, why it's so important, and how you can bring it into your life.
From Rules to Caring Practice: Community-Based Care for Elders
This video examines ethical issues related to community-based care for the elderly, including establishing a respectful and trusting relationship, miscommunication, familial issues, and end of life issues.
The Future of our Health System: Stories of Choice
Health ethics issues are explored in vignettes, including resource allocation, acute vs. chronic care, health care spending and cuts, community based care, and private care.
Video Circle 2
Code Grey: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
This award-winning program documents four situations where nurses confront ethical dilemmas in their technologically complex work world, where humanity and wholeness as patients and nurses is in jeopardy.
Deception: Ethical Decision Making
A hospital Ethics Committee wrestles with whether to treat a patient without informing her because it would be in her best interest. Is deception ever justified?
Good Character: Who Needs It?
This video outlines issues of character, what it is, and why it's so important to your happiness.
Helene Sawatsky: Plans to Fight the Hospital
This is the story of Helene Sawatzky and disagreement with hospital officials over treatment for her husband's advanced Parkinson's Disease. The film documents the legal battle that ensued, the disagreement over the definition of futile treatment, limitations of autonomy, and the delicate balance between ethical and medical decisions.
Let Me Die
Critically ill people courageously speak about quality of life and their wish to die with dignity. We also hear from doctors who advocate a more humane, less controlling approach to illness and death.
Middle of the End
This video discusses decision-making as it relates to health care for the elderly. Produced in documentary style, it shows real situations ranging from an individual patient?s right to die, to the use of pharmacological restraints in a nursing home.
The Right to Decide: Life Support for the Aged
This video features actual patient-physician interviews that explore patient's hopes, fears and values regarding end-of-life care and the use of life-support therapies.
The Six Pillars of Character
Through discussion of six pillars of character, Michael Josephson, founder of the Josephson Institute of Ethics, offers a discussion of the character qualities we desire to find in ourselves, in others and in our organizations.
Application Process
For more information, please contact PHEN at 1.800.472.4066 or webber@phen.ab.ca
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