Professional ethics teaches us how to navigate the challenges of defining and upholding our boundaries to protect our clients, ourselves and our profession. Competency and scope of practice evolve as we build our professional skills and acquire relevant experience. Knowledge of bioethical principles, moral dilemmas and codes of ethics are essential (what we need to know). Virtue ethics (why we need to know) and fluid practice with ethical thinking (how we practice) are key to applying ethical thought to practice to uphold the midwifery model of care. The Midwives Ecological Model of Ethical Thinking (MEMET) illustrates the complexity of real-life ethical dilemmas in midwifery practice.
Learning Objectives:
Objective 1: Participants will learn to use ethical thinking when presented with ethical dilemmas involving professional boundaries, competencies and scope of practice.
Objective 2:
Participants will learn to use the MEMET to weigh responsibilities to oneself and others in the contexts of midwifery practice.
Objective 3:
Participants will learn the practice of peer review as ethical hygiene tool to uphold ethical practice and Midwifery Model of Care.
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