Ethics: Professional Boundaries

Materials

• Text - "The Educated Heart" - 265 pages
• Multiple-choice test
• Certificate upon completion

Description

Recognize "red flags" that can indicate ethical decision points. Learn how to create a safe and consistent therapeutic environment and minimize problems related to client transference.

This course covers topics such as:

• Identifying ways to create a safe and consistent therapeutic environment
• The terms transference, countertransference, confidentiality, and dual relationship
• Minimizing problems related to client transference
• Ways to help yourself feel good about receiving money
• Addressing ethical issues and challenges presented by the Internet and social media

Course Objectives

• Identify ways for health professionals to create a safe and consistent therapeutic environment.
• Minimize problems related to client transference.
• Recognize "red flags" that can often indicate an ethical decision point.
• Identify ways you can help yourself feel good about receiving money.
• Define transference, countertransference, confidentiality, and dual relationship.
• Address ethical issues and challenges presented by the Internet and social media.

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Instructors

Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, NCTMB

Sharon Burch holds a Masters Degree in Nursing and has been practicing as a nurse since 1974. She is currently a Registered Nurse in the state of Arkansas. Additionally, Ms. Burch studied under many of today's leaders in massage therapy and bodywork during the 1980s, became Nationally Certified through the NCBTMB in 1993 and holds a professional membership with the AMTA.

As founder of Health Positive!, Ms. Burch has created over 60 home study nursing and massage continuing education programs, performed over 65 public, live educational presentations, has written two published books, served as a member on the NCBTMB Continuing Education committee and was a founding member of the National Association of Nurse Massage Therapists.

Sharon is an instructor on many of the Institute's programs and has authored and co-authored various ethics courses and additional titles such as Touch for the Seriously Ill, Stress Reduction Through Bodywork, Staying Well – Naturally, Cardiopulmonary Health and Illness, Chronic Pain Management, Marketing Massage in Four Easy Steps, Preventing Medical Errors, HIV Update for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers, Understanding HIV, Massage for Edema and more.