Clinical Ethics Module on Beginning of Life Evaluation Form

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Using the following scale, 1 = excellent 2 = good 3 = satisfactory 4 = unsatisfactory

1. Rate your achievement of each objective listed below.

Prenatal Diagnosis and Decision Making
Explain the ethical justification and cautions related to prenatal testing.	1	2	3	4
Identify the ethical conditions required when providing prenatal genetic testing in a Catholic health care facility.	1	2	3	4
Distinguish between positive and negative rights as they apply to patient autonomy.	1	2	3	4
Identify the elements of informed consent related to prenatal genetic testing.	1	2	3	4
Intrapartum Management of Pregnancy
Assess the appropriate range of treatment decisions that ethically can be offered to a pregnant patient.	1	2	3	4
Explain the ethical obligations of health professionals to a mother and her fetus in making treatment decisions.	1	2	3	4
Explain the rights and responsibilities of health care professionals when patient decisions conflict with the cultural values, ethics and/or religious beliefs of the caregiver.	1	2	3	4
Extrauterine Pregnancy
Identify the elements of the ethical Principle of Double Effect and their significance for moral deliberation.	1	2	3	4
Threshold of Viability
Explain the range of ethical treatment options for the medical management of extremely premature newborns.	1	2	3	4
Explain the morally relevant features of the distinction between proportionate and disproportionate means of treatment.	1	2	3	4
Describe how health professionals can assist parents who have difficulty making treatment decisions about seriously ill infants, while respecting the informed consent process.	1	2	3	4
Therapeutic Genetic Interventions
Discuss how ethical principles and the organization’s values can help explain the ethical basis for justifying certain types of therapeutic interventions and not others.	1	2	3	4