Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Describe the nature of moral distress.
2. Examine circumstances in which moral distress arises.
3. Articulate methods of managing moral distress while maintaining professional and personal integrity..

Faculty

Peter DePergola, II, PhD, MTS
Director of Clinical Ethics
Baystate Health

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.