Nursing Ethics and Health Care Policy:

Bridging Local, National, and International Perspectives

Below is an overview of the conference. For a more in depth look at the agenda, please download and print the program details (.pdf)

Program

July 17, 2008

1. 5:30PM -- Registration — At Woolsey Hall
2. 6:30PM -- Dinner in the President's Room at Woolsey Hall
   Speaker — Carol Taylor, Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University

July, 18, 2008

1. 8:30AM -- Continental Breakfast & Registration — At Harkness Auditorium Yale Medical School
2. 9:30AM -- Opening Greetings from:
   
   - Margaret Grey, Dean, Yale University School of Nursing
   - David Smith, Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
   - Ann Williams, Acting Executive Director, Yale-China Association; Professor, Yale Univ.; Guest Professor, Central South School, Hunan, China
3. 10:15AM -- Break
4. 10:30AM -- Plenary Session — Tom Murray, President,Hastings Center
5. 11:30/Noon -- Lunch
6. 12:45PM -- Plenary Session — Leyla Dinc, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
7. 1:45PM -- Break

Proceed to Yale School of Nursing

8. 2:00PM -- Concurrent Discussion Groups — At Yale School of Nursing
   
   - Management Issues
   - Elder Care
   - Futility and Euthanasia
   - Mental Health 1
   - Mental Health 2
   - Human Rights
   - Undergraduate Education
   - Nurse as Moral Agent
   - Reproductive Issues
   
9. 3:00PM -- Concurrent Discussion Groups
   
   - Practice Issues
   - Ethical Analysis
   - Codes of Ethics
   - End of Life Care
   - Leadership
   - Workforce
   - Culture
   - Religion
   - Disaster
   
10. 4:00PM -- Break
11. 4:15PM -- Concurrent Discussion Groups
    
    - The Patient
    - Futility and Euthanasia
    - Education and Practice
    - Reproductive Issues
    - Resource Allocation
    - Ethical Environment
    - Mental Health 1
    - Research Ethics
    - End of Life Issues
    - Disaster
    - Human Rights
    
12. 5:15PM -- Close for the day

July, 19, 2008

1. 8:30AM -- Continental Breakfast & Registration — At Harkness Auditorium Yale Medical School
2. 9:00AM -- Recommence & Announcements
3. 9:15AM -- Plenary Session — Panel Discussion by GOOD NURSE Study researchers -- (Samantha Pang, Emiko Konishi, Young-Rhan Um, Vickie Chen)
4. 10:30AM -- Break
5. 11:00AM -- Plenary Session — Alexey Brazhnikov, Dean Advanced Nursing Program, Sechnov Moscow Medical Academy
6. 12NOON -- Lunch on your own

Proceed to Yale School of Nursing

7. 1:15PM -- Concurrent Discussion Groups — At Yale School of Nursing
   - Practice Issues
   - Culture
   - Ethical Analysis
   - Codes of Ethics
   - Leadership
   - End of Life Issues
   - Resource Allocation
   - Undergraduate Education
   - Nurse as Moral Agent
   - Research Ethics
   
8. 2:15PM -- Concurrent Discussion Groups
   - Management Issues
   - The Patient
   - Ethical Environment
   - Education and Practice
   - End of Life Care
   - Elder Care
   - Mental Health 2
   - Workforce
   - Religion
   
9. 3:15PM -- Break
10. 3:45PM -- Human Rights and Nursing Awards:
    
    - Emmie Chanika from Malawi
    - Sister Teresita Hinnegan from Philadelphia, PA, USA
11. 5:00PM -- Plenary Session — Summary Discussion
12. 5:30PM -- Close

This program in pdf format

Sponsored by:
Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Yale Center for International Nursing Scholarship and Education
International Center for Nursing Ethics

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