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Intellectuals
can also
do much to build a new culture of human life.
A special task falls to Catholic
intellectuals, who are called to be present
and active in the leading centers where culture is formed, in schools and
universities, in places of scientific and technological Research, of
artistic creativity and of the study of man.
Allowing their talents and activity to be nourished by the living force
of the Gospel, they ought to place themselves at the service of a new culture of
life by offering serious and well documented contributions, capable of
commanding general respect and interest by reason of their merit. ...A
specific contribution will also have to come from Universities, particularly from Catholic
Universities, and from Centres, Institutes and Committees of Bioethics.
of the Bioethics Resource Center
The
Bioethics Resource Center
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Provides lectures,
workshops, and conferences for professionals in healthcare and related
fields, and for the general public.
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Maintains a collection
of audio-visual resources for community use.
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Provides consulting
services to healthcare facilities and professionals.
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Provides assistance to healthcare
facilities in the establishment of ethics
committees.
Since its
establishment in 1987 Janine Marie Idziak,
Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at
Loras College, has served as director of the Center.
Dr. Idziak received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of
Michigan (1975) and subsequently earned a M.A. in theology from the University
of Notre Dame (1989). During the
summer of 1997 she participated in a ten week summer institute at Dartmouth
College on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome
Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health.
She is a member of the House of Delegates of the American Association of
Homes and Services for the Aging and
has served on AAHSA’s Commission on Ethics in Long-Term Care.
She is the author of Ethical
Dilemmas in Allied Health and Ethical
Dilemmas in Long-Term Care.
Loras College Faculty Associates
Mary Lynn Neuhaus, J.D.
Associate Professor of Communication Arts
Rev. Mark Ressler, S.T.D.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Community Advisory Board
Eileen McSperrin, R.N. Mercy Medical
Center, Dubuque, IA
Ann E. Michalski, M.A.
Gannon Center and City Council Member, Dubuque, IA
Rev. David Pacholke, M.Div., Th.M..
Director of Pastoral Care, Finley Hospital, Dubuque
Sue Reilly, R.N., B.S.P.A., Faculty,
Northeast Iowa Community College, Peosta, IA
Jacquelyn Roth, B.A., M.T.(A.S.C.P.), I.C.P. Epidemiologist,
Finley Hospital, Dubuque,
Dolores Ullrich, OSF, M.A.
Administrator, Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, IA
Barbara Zoeller,M.S.N. Director,
Hospice of Dubuque, IA
The Center has
received grants from
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William
C. Brown Publishing, Dubuque, IA, for the purchase of
videotapes (1988).
·
Medical
Associates, Dubuque, IA, for Rev. Michael Place,
speaker for the conference Health Care Ethics: The Work of the Catholic Community (1990).
·
Health
Care Ethics: The Work of the Catholic Community,
for the sesquicentennial celebration of Loras College, April 5-7, 1990.
Plenary session speakers included:
*
Rev. Russell E. Smith, S.T.D. (Director of Education and Associate
Director of
Research, Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Center in Braintree, MA),
Pastoral Medicine:
An Offspring of the Church.
*
Rev. Michael D. Place, S.T.D. (Theologian for the Curia of the
Archdiocese of
Chicago and chair of the archdiocesan Medical Ethics Commission), Euthanasia:
Ethical and Public Policy Considerations.
*
Rev. James F. Bresnahan, S.J., J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. (Professor of Clinical
Medicine and Co-director
of the Ethics and Human Values in Medicine Program
at
Northwestern University Medical School), Appropriate
Care of the Dying.
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Rev. John Boyle, Ph.D. (School of Religion, University of
Iowa), Whether We
Live or Die, We Are the Lord’s.
*
Msgr. Charles Fahey (Director of the Third Age Center, Fordham
University),
Death and Dying in Long-Term Care: Is the Agenda the Same as in Acute
Care?
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Most. Rev. John McGann, D.D. (Bishop of Rockville Center, New York), Building
Bridges in a Community of Hope.
*
Brian O’Toole, Ph.D. (Director of Ethics, Mercy Health Services,
Farmington
Hills, Michigan), Ethics Committees
in the Third Millennium.
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Rev. James F. Bresnahan, S.J., J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus,
Northwestern University Medical School),
An Affirmative Response to Proposals for
Legalizing “Inflicted Death” as Medical Treatment of the Dying:
Making Effective
Palliative Medicine a Feature of Medical Care Not Only for the Dying.
Guest Lectures
·
James Pattee, M.D. (University of
Minnesota Medical School), Ethical Issues
in Long-Term Care: Selected Case Studies.
February 26, 1991.
Special Courses
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Health
Care for the Elderly: Facing Ethical Dilemmas offered
in conjunction with the Church Ministry Institute of Loras College, Manchester,
IA, Fall 1989.
Workshops offered at Loras College
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Medical
Treatment: Who Decides?
March 8, 1988.
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Artificial
Nutrition and Hydration: Ethical, Legal, and Religious Guidelines
March 29, 1988.
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Caring
for the Dying A series of workshops, Spring 1993
Making
Choices about Life-Sustaining Treatments: The Ethical Principles
Physician
Assisted Suicide: Have We Failed in Caring for the Dying?
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: The Current Debate.
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Towards
Better Care of The Dying November 3, 1994. Co-sponsored by the Ethics
Committee of Mercy Health Center, Dubuque.
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Intensive
Workshop on Nursing Ethics: Issues in Death and Dying
November 20, 1995
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Making
Ethical Decisions about Futile Medical Treatments
December 4, 1995.
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Helping
Caregivers Make Ethical Decisions about Life-Sustaining Treatments
December 4, 1995.
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Everyday
Ethics in Long-Term Care December 16, 1996.
·
The
Challenge of Resistant Organisms May 20, 1999.
Co-sponsored by Finley Hospital, Dubuque, and the Dubuque Regional
Healthcare Ethics Committee.
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Death
and Dying in America The Response of Healthcare Providers
A series of four workshops Septemer
10-13, 2000.
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Death
and Dying in America The Response of the Faith Community
A series of foru workshops September
10-13, 2000.
Service to Healthcare Facilities and Agencies
The Center’s
director has served on the following boards
and committees within the Dubuque community:
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Board, Mercy Medical Center
1992-present.
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Board of Directors, Stonehill Care
Center/Franciscan Services 1996-present.
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Ethics Committee, Mercy Medical Center
Member, 1989-92; chair, 1993-99.
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Institutional Ethics Committee, Mercy
Medical Center 1999-present
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Clinical Ethics Committee, Mercy Medical
Center 1999-present.
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Ethics Committee, Stonehill Care
Center/Franciscan Services 1986-present.
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Consultant, Ethics Committee, Bethany
Home. 1991-present.
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Planning Committee, Learning Caregiving.
1995-97.
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Advisory Committee for Sexual Abuse,
Sisters of St .Francis of Dubuque. 1995- present.
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Dubuque Regional Healthcare Ethics
Committee. Chair, 1998-present.
Educational Programming
The Center’s
director has given educational programs which have served various healthcare
facilities and services. These educational programs have included:
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Workshops for the management team of Mercy
Health Center, Dubuque
Towards
a Deeper Understanding of the CatholicChurch June 6, 1990
Catholic
Social Teaching and Health Care September 18, 1990
An
Introduction to Healthcare Ethics March 20, 1991
The
Patient Self-Determination Act, Advance Directives for Health Care, and Related Issues
in
Clinical Medical Ethics November 11, 1991
Catholic
Social Teaching, Catholic Identity in Healthcare, and Values Based
Decisionmaking April 16, 1993.
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The
Patient Self-Determination Act and Advance Directives for Healthcare
Administrative
staff of Dubuque area long-term care facilities October 8, 1991
Nursing
staff of Amicare, Dubuque, IA October 23, 1991
Sponsorship
Committee, Mercy Health Center, Dubuque, IA November 5, 1991
Nursing
staff of Hospice of Dubuque, IA November 6, 1991
Staff
of Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, IA November 21, 1991; May 5, 1994.
Staff
of Julien Care Facility, Dubuque, IA January 20, 1992; October 21, 1993;
September
21, 1994.
Volunteers
of Hospice of Dubuque, IA January 23, 1992.
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1994
Revision of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care
Services
Board
of Mercy Health Center, Dubuque, IA, March 16, 1995
Sponsorship
Committee of Mercy Health Center, Dubuque, IA, April 18, 1995
Board
of Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, IA, April 19, 1995.
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Topical Presentations to Ethics Committees
Ethical
Principles for Issues in Death and
Dying Finley Hospital, Dubuque, IA
November 10, 1995
Ethical
Issues in Pain Management Joint meeting of the ethics committees of
Bethany
Home and Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, IA, November 11, 1995.
Medical
Futility and DNR Orders Mercy Health Center, Dubuque, IA, April 17,
1996.
Ethical
Issues in Managed Care, presented for members of ethics committees at the
Catholic healthcare
facilities in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Waterloo, IA,
January
24, 1997.
Physician
Assisted Suicide: Recent Trends in the Debate
Northeast Iowa Regional
Ethics Committee, Oelwein, IA, April 9,
1997.
Ethical
Issues in the New Genetics, presented for members of the ethics committees
at
the Catholic healthcare facilities in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Waterloo, IA,
April 24,
1998.
Pain
Management; Confidentiality; and
The Future of Ethics Committees:
Organizational
Ethics Northeast Iowa Regional Ethics Committee, Oelwein, IA
May 27,
1998.
Risk
Taking in Resident Care Bethany
Home, Dubuque, IA September 22, 1998.
Cultural
and Religious Perspectives on Pain Management Joint meeting of the ethics
committees of Bethany Home and Stonehill Care Center,
Dubuque, IA, October 10, 1998.
Panelist,
Changing Role of Long-Term Care
Joint meeting of the ethics committees
of Bethany Home and Stonehill Franciscan Services, Dubuque, IA
November 20,
1999.
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Euthanasia
and the Living Will, Hospice of Dubuque, May 26, 1988.
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Pain
Management, for the staff of Stonehill Care Center,
Dubuque, IA, February 24, 1994.
·
The
Ethics of End of Life Treatment Decisions, for the
staff of Sunnycrest Manor, Dubuque, IA, March 6, 1996.
·
Research
Ethics presented for the CME program, Mercy
Health Center, Dubuque, IA, September 24, 1997.
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Ordinary/Extraordinary
Treatment: Where Do We Go From Here?” Four
presentations for the Covenant Health System, May 11, 1999
* Medical Staff, Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, IA.
*
Nursing Staff,
Allied Health
Staff, and Pastoral Care
Staff, Mercy Hospital
of Franciscan Sisters, Oelwein, IA.
* Medical Staff, Mercy Hospital of Franciscan Sisters, Oelwein, IA.
* Nursing Staff and
Pastoral Care Staff, Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, IA.
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A
Fair and Just Workplace Independence, IA, December 7, 1999.
A workshop on unionization in healthcare presented for senior management
of Catholic healthcare facilities in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, the leadership
of sponsoring religious communities, and senior staff of the Archdiocese of
Dubuque.
Establishment of Ethics Committees
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Calvin Manor, Des Moines 1991, 1993-94
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Crestridge, Maquoketa, IA 1993-94
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Mercy Hospital of Franciscan Sisters,
Oelwein, IA for the Northeast Iowa Regional Ethics Committee 1995
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Presbyterian Village Care Center, Ackley,
IA 1998
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Iowa Veterans Home, Marshalltown, IA
1998-99
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Area Residential Care, Dubuque
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Bethany Home, Dubuque
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Dubuque Nursing and Rehab Center, Dubuque
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Ennoble Manor Care Center, Dubuque
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Galena-Stauss Hospital and Nursing Care
Facility, Galena, IL
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Heritage Manor, Dubuque
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Hospice of Dubuque
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Manor Care Health Services, Dubuque
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Orchard Manor, Lancaster, WI
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Sunnycrest Manor, Dubuque
Commission Memberships and Consulting Positions
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Since 1988 the Center’s director has
served as chair of the Medical-Moral Commission
of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa.
A major project of the Commission is the ongoing production of Church
Teaching on Health Care Ethics A
Handbook of Policies for the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
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Since 1996 the Center’s director has
served as Health Care Consultant for
the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
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The Center’s director served as a
consultant to the Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, IA, for revision of the
congregation’s advance directive forms. 1998-99.
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Assisted
Reproductive Technologies (ART) Moral
Principles of the Catholic Tradition
High
school level educational program (Dubuque, IA: Archdiocese of Dubuque,
2000).
Pamphlets
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Treating
Infertility and Assisting Reproduction Guidance from the Catholic Moral
Tradition (Dubuque, IA: Archdiocese of Dubuque,
2001).
Educational Programming
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How
to Start an Ethics Committee, and Why and The Problem of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration presented at a
retreat for the administrators and chaplains of the Lutheran Association of
Nursing Homes in Iowa, Strawberry Point, IA, November 12, 1988.
·
Member of program committee and presenter
for Health Care Ethics: Church Teaching and Pastoral Ministry, clergy convocation for the
Archdiocese of Dubuque, June 11- 14, 1990.
·
Ethical
Issues in Death and Dying and Advance
Directives, Motherhouse of the
Sisters
of the Presentation, Dubuque, IA, July 19, 1990.
·
Co-presenter with Fr. John Boyle
(University of Iowa School of Religion) of a workshop on healthcare ethics for a
joint meeting of the Catholic bishops and major superiors of religious
communities in the State of Iowa, New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, IA
October 10-11, 1990.
·
Presentation on healthcare ethics for a
meeting of Catholic Charities, Waterloo, IA, March 22, 1991.
·
Co-presenter, Ethical
Issues in Death and Dying, for pastoral associates in the Archdiocese of
Dubuque, Waterloo, IA, April 16, 1991.
·
Co-presenter, Ethics
of Suicide, CCD class, Sacred Heart Church, Monticello, IA, October 23,
1991.
·
The
Patient Self-Determination Act and Advance Directives for Health Care
presented
for
the annual clergy luncheon at Mercy Health Center, Dubuque , IA, November 8,
1991.
·
Co-presenter,
Advance Directives, New
Melleray Abbey, Peosta, IA November 18, 1991.
·
Advance
Directives for Health Care presented at the Evangelical Free
Church, Platteville, WI, October 4, 1992.
·
The
Perspective of the Churches on Death and Dying: Comparative Religious
Perspectives presented at Choices
in Death and Dying: A Religious Perspective, Dubuque, IA, November 15, 1992.
·
Ethical
Issues in Long-Term Care presented for area clergy at
Luther Manor as part of national pastoral care week, Dubuque, IA, October 26,
1993.
·
Care
of the Dying presented at the annual clergy luncheon
at Mercy Health Center, Dubuque, IA, October 27, 1993.
·
Church
teaching on death and dying, Theresians, Dubuque, IA, December
3, 1993.
·
Some
Reflections on the Spirituality of Death and Dying,
Serra Club, Dubuque, IA February 23,
1994.
·
Presentation on death and dying issues and
advance directives for the Stephen Ministry program at the First Congregational
Church, Dubuque, IA, March 29, 1994.
·
Presentation on the care of the dying to
senior citizen groups at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Bellevue, IA, October 21,
1994.
·
Catholic
Moral Teaching on Reproductive Technologies
presented to the Infertility Support Group, Resurrection Church, Dubuque, IA
April 18, 1995.
·
Euthanasia
and Assisted Suicide and The
1994 Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services for
pastoral care staff of Catholic healthcare facilities in the Archdiocese of
Dubuque, Cedar Falls, IA, October 13, 1995.
·
When
Patients/Residents and Caregivers Disagree about Medical Treatment,
presented for the staff of the infirmaries of the Catholic religious communities
in Dubuque, IA, October 18, 1995.
·
Healthcare
Ethics: Issues at the End of Life Diaconate
Formation Program, Archdiocese of Dubuque September
14, 1996.
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Issues
in reproductive and genetic medicine; issues in social ethics and healthcare,
Diaconate Formation Program, Archdiocese of Dubuque October 12, 1996.
·
Issues
in Death and Dying: Ethical and Pastoral Perspectives, Waterloo,
IA, jointly sponsored by the three
hospitals in Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA as part of national pastoral care week,
October 23, 1996.
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Forgoing
Life-Sustaining Treatments, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide
CCD class, St. Joseph’s Church, Sinsinawa, WI
November 13, 1996.
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Organizer and presenter, Health Care Ethics: Responding to Needs in the Parish
Community,
Clergy/Pastoral Staff Study Day, Archdiocese of Dubuque, April 8,
1997.
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Hard
Choices for Married Couples: Genetic Disorders, Reproductive Decisionmaking, and
Church Teaching
*
Holy Family Church, Mason City, IA
February 5, 1998.
*
St. Mary Church, Waterloo, IA
February 12, 1998.
*
St. Jude Church, Cedar Rapids, IA
February 26, 1998.
·
Presentation on death and dying issues for
the Stephen Ministry Program, St. Peter Lutheran Church, Dubuque, IA, March 3,
1998.
·
Genetic
Disorders, Reproductive Decisionmaking, and Church Teaching,
CCD class, St. John Nepomucene Church, Ft. Atkinson, IA
March 4, 1998.
·
Coping
with Infertility: Infertility, Assisted Reproduction, and Church Teaching,
St. Joseph the Worker Church, Dubuque, IA
March 22, 1998.
·
Pastoral
Genetics presented for area clergy as part of
national pastoral care week at North Iowa Mercy Health Center, Mason City, IA,
October 23, 1998.
·
New
Dilemmas in Reproductive Decisionmaking: Assisted Reproduction, Genetic Testing,
and Church Teaching
Presented for junior and senior high school catechists in the Archdiocese
of
Dubuque:
* St. Joseph the
Worker Church, Dubuque, IA February 15, 1999.
*
Xavier High School, Cedar Rapids, IA
March 1, 1999.
*
Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, IA
March 22, 1999.
*
Newman High School, Mason City, IA April
26, 1999.
Presented
for religion teachers in the Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese
of Dubuque, Waterloo, IA April
20, 1999.
·
Workshop on Catholic Church teaching on
assisted reproduction and on reproductive decisions related to genetic disorders
presented for sponsor couples involved in conducting marriage preparation
programs, St. Stephen the Witness Student Center, Cedar Fall, IA
February 25, 1999.
·
Member of panel on advance directives for
a community meeting of the Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, IA
July 16, 1999.
·
Catholic
Perspectives on End-of-Life Care, Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women, New Hampton IA
October 13, 1999.
·
Presentation on end-of-life issues to the
Advisory Committee on Persons with Disabilities, Archdiocese of Dubuque,
Dubuque, IA October 23, 1999.
·
Cardinal
Joseph Bernardin: Modeling How to Die, Dubuque
Deanery of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, Dubuque, IA January 31, 2000
·
St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville,
IA November 11, 1990; October 13, 1991; November 17, 1996.
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St. Columbkille’s Church, Dubuque, IA
December 9, 1990; October 17, 1991; October 24, 1991.
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Church of the Resurrection, Dubuque, IA
March 17, 1991; November 13, 1994.
·
St. Anthony’s Church, Dubuque, IA
April 28, 1991
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St. Raphael’s Cathedral, Dubuque, IA
October 6, 1991.
·
St. Martin’s and St. Mary’s, Cascade,
IA November 10, 1991.
·
St. Patrick’s Church, Benton, WI
March 9, 1994.
·
Immaculate Conception Church, Charles
City, IA April 9, 1995.
·
St. Joseph the Worker Church, Dubuque, IA,
September 24, 1995.
·
St. Clement’s Church, Lancaster, WI
November 5, 1995
·
St. Mary’s Church, East Dubuque, IL
November 6, 1995.
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St. Mary’s Church, Manchester, IA
March 10, 1996.
·
St. Joseph’s Church, Sinsinawa, WI
March 12, 1997.
·
Sacred Heart Church, Fillmore, IA
June 10, 1997.
·
St. John the Baptist Church, Mount Vernon,
IA January 10, 2001.
·
Session on death and dying issues and on
ethics consultation in healthcare presented
for seminary students completing C.P.E. at Luther Manor, Dubuque, IA
January
24, 1994; June 14, 1994; July 21, 1995; July 25, 1996; June 11, 1997.
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
and Guest Lectures
The Center’s
director has received invitations to give the following presentations:
National Conferences
·
Panelist for a teleconference An Examination of Early
Implementation Efforts Relating to Living
Wills Legislation: Evaluations and their Impact on Participating Organizations
and Individuals sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the Inspector General, Dallas, TX, November 5, 1993.
Regional Conferences
·
Starting
an Ethics Committee in a Long-Term Care Facility: The Task of Committee
Education presented at the Chicago Conference on
Ethics in Healthcare Institutions, August 19-21,
1992.
Conferences for the State of Iowa
·
Establishing
Institutional Ethics Committees presented at a
conference of the Iowa Association of
Homes for the Aging, Dubuque, IA, May 11, 1988.
·
Ethics
Committees in Long-Term Care: A Primer presented at a
meeting of the members of boards of directors of the member institutions of the
Iowa Association of Homes for the Aging, Des Moines, IA, March 28, 1991.
·
Bioethics
Principles of Late Stage Care presented at
the Governor’s Conference on Alzheimer’s
Disease, Des Moines, IA, October 10-11, 1994; November 15-16, 1995; October 7-8,
1996; October 29-30, 1997.
·
Ethical
Issues in Long-Term Care presented at a conference of the
Iowa Association of Homes and
Services for the Aging, Ames, IA, September 12-13, 1995.
·
Ethical
Issues in Long-Term Care presented at a meeting of the Iowa
Nursing Home Social Workers Association, Ames, IA, March 27, 1997.
·
Advance
Directives presented at a meeting of the Iowa
Association of Rehabilitation and Residential Care Facilities, Des Moines, IA,
November 7, 1997.
·
Ethical
Decision Making presented at the annual meeting of
the Iowa Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Ames, IA, May 1, 1998.
·
The
Ethical Agenda for Long Term Care presented for
the Long Term Care Social Workers of Iowa, Ames, IA
October 29, 1999.
Area Conferences and Workshops
·
Ethical
Principles for Making Decisions during Late Stage and End-of-Life
presented at the sixth annual Caregivers’ Conference of the Heart of Iowa
Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, held in Fort Dodge, IA and televised
to locations in Ames, Mason City, and Marshalltown, IA, April 23, 1996.
·
Health
Care for Alzheimer’s Patients: Facing the Ethical Dilemmas
presented at a workshop on Alzheimer’s disease, Franciscan Medical Center,
Rock Island, IL, October 20, 1988.
·
Do
Not Resuscitate Orders presented with Joyce Roberson
(University of Iowa College of Nursing) at a Nursing and Ethics Symposium,
Clarke College, Dubuque, IA, April 7, 1989.
·
Ethics
and Reform in Health Care: A Kaleidoscope of Issues
presented for P.A.C.E., Dubuque,
IA, February 10, 1994.
·
Panelist for a program on physician
assisted suicide sponsored by the University of Iowa School of Religion, Iowa
City, IA, April 23, 1994.
·
Death
and Dying: Ethical Dilemmas for Nurses presented at
the Sinsinawa Mound Conference Center, Sinsinawa, WI, April 30, 1994.
·
Opening lecture for Dynamics in End of Life Decision Making, a seminar at Cedar Falls
Nursing Home, Cedar Falls, IA, March 25, 1998.
·
Attitudes
of Individuals and Families as Aging Takes Place
presented at Calvin Community, Des Moines, IA, April 23, 1998.
·
End-of-Life
Treatment Decisions: Resolving the Ethical Dilemma presented
at the Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Education Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA
August 10, 2000.
Guest Lectures
·
Ethics
Committees in Long-Term Care Facilities presented at
the annual Board dinner, Calvin Manor, Des Moines, IA, May 28, 1991.
·
Caring
for the Dying: Developing Alternatives to Physician Assisted Suicide,
Founder Lecture, Loras College, February 18, 1993.
·
Fetal
Tissue Research: The Catholic Position presented as
part of a program on the ethics of fetal tissue research under the sponsorship
of the Msgr. Supple Endowment Fund, Iowa State University, March 1, 1994.
Presentations to Community Groups
·
Ethical
Issues in the Case of Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases
sponsored by Stonehill Care Center and the Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association,
March 22, 1988.
·
Panelist for program on issues in death
and dying, Mercy Advantage Senior Citizens Group, Dubuque, IA, August 29, 1990.
·
Advance
Directives for Healthcare presented for the Jamestown
Firemen’s Auxiliary, Kieler, WI, March 26, 1991.
·
The
Patient Self-Determination Act and Advance Directives for Healthcare presented
to residents and families of Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, IA, January 12,
1992.
·
Advance
Directives for Healthcare presented at Seniorfest, Northeast
Iowa Community College, Peosta, IA, August 19, 1992.
·
Session on Rationing
Healthcare and panelist for session on Advance
Directives at Tough Choices in Health
Care sponsored by the Consortium on Aging Network, Dubuque, IA, September 1,
1992.
·
Co-presenter for program on the ethical
and legal dimensions of healthcare for residents and families of Bethany Home,
Dubuque, IA, March 14, 1993.
·
Ethical
Dilemmas for Caregiving Families presented for
the Alzheimer’s Support Group at Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, IA, October
28, 1993.
·
Ethical
Issues in Death and Dying presented to the Alzheimer’s
Support Group in Davenport/Bettendorf, IA, August 2, 1994; August 5, 1996.
·
Panelist for program on assisted suicide
presented for teachers of religious education
at the Shalom Retreat Center, Dubuque, IA, January 30, 1995.
·
Which
is the Best Form of Advance Directive?presented to a
senior citizens group in Delhi, IA, July 27, 1995.
·
Ethical
Issues in Organ Transplantation presented to the
Transplant Support Group, Finley
Hospital, Dubuque, IA, April 10, 1996.
·
Medical
Treatment Directives presented to family members of
residents of Sunnycrest Manor, Dubuque, IA, August 21, 1996.
·
Presentation on death and dying issues to
the West Side Kiwanis Club, Dubuque, IA, March 18, 1998.
·
Co-presenter, Ethical
Concerns of the Alzheimer’s Family, Mississippi Valley Chapter, Dubuque
Branch Office, Alzheimer’s Association
August 6, 1998.
·
Ethical
Principles for End-of-Life Decisionmaking,
Alzheimer Support Group,Galena, IL May
5, 1999.
Videotape Productions
Choices in Death
and Dying
In the spring of
1993 this videotape on advance directives was produced at Loras College under
the sponsorship of a consortium of Dubuque area long-term care facilities and
supported by a grant from the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., Synod of Lakes and
Prairies. The Center’s director
served on the planning committee for the video, is a panelist on it, and is
author of the accompanying study guide.
Produced by the
Center’s director for use in staff in-service programs at the Iowa Veterans
Home, Marshalltown, IA October
30, 1999
Videotape Collection
A collection of
videotapes on various issues in healthcare ethics is available for
community use free of charge. The
programs are available to institutions, church and civic groups, families, and
individuals.
AIDS: Ethical Issues (St. Louis
University Medical Center) 30 min.
ALLOCATING
MEDICAL RESOURCES
Doctor, I Want... (KCTS/Seattle)
59 min.
Aging and Health Care (Golden Dome) 25
min.
BEHAVIOR
MODIFICATION
Behavior Control (KCTS/Seattle)
59 min.
DEATH AND DYING
Overview of
issues in death and dying:
Death and Dying (KCTS/Seattle)
59 min.
Dax’s Case (Fanlight) 58 min.
When My Time Comes (Washington
State Catholic Conference) 18 min.
The President’s Commission Report on Deciding to
Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (Sheed & Ward) 25 min.
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
(Sheed & Ward) 45 min.
Ordinary and Extraordinary Means
(Archdiocese of New York) 60 min.
DNR Orders
Ethics, Principles and Applications
(Archdiocese of New York) 60 min.
Artificial
Nutrition and Hydration
Withdrawing Nutrition/Fluids (Sheed
& Ward) 48 min.
Artificial Nutrition/Hydration
(St. Francis Hospital, Miami Beach) 30 min.
No Heroic Measures (Carle) 23 min.
Care in Terminal
Illness
Care of the Terminally Ill (St.
Francis Hospital, Miami Beach)
Management of Terminal Illness
(Loma Linda University Medical Center)
End State Surgery: Is This a Limit?
(St. Louis University Medical Center)
The Dying Patient: Treating Pain
(Fanlight) 30 min.
End-of-Life Treatment: Pain Management and Terminal
Illness(Catholic
Health Association)
30 min.
End-of-Life Treatment: Caring in the Midst of
Suffering (Catholic
Health Association) 30 min.
Almost Home
Living with Suffering and Dying
(Redemptorist Pastoral
Communication) 30 min.
Our Journey with Hospice of Dubuque
Euthanasia and
Assisted Suicide
Active Voluntary Euthanasia: Is It Moral?
(Loma Linda University Medical Center)
Euthanasia (Sheed & Ward) 30 min.
Done With Life (Films for the
Humanities and Sciences; Dutch with English Subtitles) 43
min.
Help Me Die (Fanlight) 48
min.
Dominion Over Life (Archdiocese of
New York)
Advance
Directives
Advance Directives (Sheed &
Ward) 40 min.
On Your Behalf Your Right to Accept or Refuse Medical
Treatment
(CAREsource) 13 min.
Asking About Advance Directives Scenarios for
Healthcare Providers (Catholic Health Association) 21 min.
Choices in Death and Dying
(Bioethics Resource Center, Loras College) 30 min.
ETHICS
COMMITTEES IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
The What, How and Why of Ethics Committees
(Sheed & Ward)
Ethics Committee: Necessary Invention of Modern Health
(Sheed
& Ward)
Bioethics Committee (St. Francis
Hospital, Miami Beach)
Ethics Committees: Allies in Long-Term Care
(AAHA & AARP) 33 min.
ETHICAL
PRINCIPLES AND DECISIONMAKING
Making Ethical Decisions (Sheed &
Ward) 60 min.
HEALTHCARE AND
AGING
Can’t Afford to Grow Old (WNET) 60 min.
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
(Fanlight) 28 min.
Aging and Health Care (Golden Dome)
25 min.
ORGAN DONATION,
PROCUREMENT, TRANSPLANTATION
A Heart Transplant Program
(Fanlight) 29 min.
Brain Death and Organ Transplantation
(St. Francis Hospital, Miami Beach)
PAIN MANAGEMENT
Quality of Mercy: A Case for Better Pain Management
(Filmakers Library) 53 min.
End-of-Life Treatment: Pain Management and Terminal
Illness
(Catholic Health Association) 30 min.
The Dying Patient: Treating Pain
(Fanlight) 30 min.
PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS
Nursing Ethics (St. Francis
Hospital) 30 min.
Physician/Nurse Relationships
(Fanlight) 30min.
Truth-Telling/Promise Keeping
(Archdiocese of New York) 60 min.
REPRODUCTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES AND GENETIC MEDICINE
Boy or Girl: Should the Choice Be Ours?
(KCTS/Seattle) 59 min.
Genetic Screening: The Ultimate Preventive Medicine
(KCTS/Seattle) 59 min.
Genetic Screening and Counseling (St.
Louis University Medical Center)
RESEARCH AND
EXPERIMENTATION
Human Experiments: The Price of Knowledge
(KCTS/Seattle) 59 min.
SERIOUSLY ILL
NEWBORNS
Treatment of the Handicapped Newborn
(Sheed & Ward)
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
(Fanlight) 28 min.
VARIOUS TOPICS
Catholic Values in Health Care
(St. Louis University Medical Center) 30 min.
In Sight: A Vision for a Healthy America (Catholic
Health Association)
Consistent Ethic of Life Symposium
(Sheed & Ward) 4 programs, 20 min. each
Ethics of Patient Care (St. Louis
University Medical Center)
Law-Medicine-Ethics: How They Interact
(St. Louis University Medical Center)
LECTURES GIVEN
IN DUBUQUE
SOCIETY OF
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHERS SUMMER SYMPOSIUM (1988)
Kevin
O’Rourke, O.P., Critical Care: The
Ethical Norms.
Robert Audi, Respect
for Persons, Quality of Life, and Terminal Care.
RURAL MINISTRY
CONFERENCE (1989)
Ruth Purtilo, Rural
Health Care in the United States.
LORAS
SESQUICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE (1990)
Russell Smith, Medical
Ethics: An Offspring of the Church.
Michael Place, Euthanasia:
Ethical and Public Policy Considerations.
PRIESTS’
CONVOCATION, ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE (1990)
Kevin
O’Rourke, OP, An Overview of the
Problems and Principles of Contemporary Healthcare Ethics.
Kevin
O’Rourke, OP, Deciding to Forgo
Life-Sustaining Treatments: The Ethical Norms.
Kevin
O’Rourke, OP, Lawrence Kukla, M.D., and Mary Lynn Neuhaus, J.D., Advance Directives.
Jean DeBlois,
CSJ, Church Teaching on the New
Reproductive Technologies.
CONFERENCE ON
ISSUES IN DEATH AND DYING (1992)
James Bresnahan,
S.J., Appropriate Care of the Dying.
Rev. John Boyle,
Whether We Live or Die, We Are the
Lord’s.
Rev. Charles
Fahey, Death and Dying in Long-Term Care:
Is the Agenda the Same as in Acute Care?
PUBLIC LECTURE
CO-SPONSORED BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE OF MERCY HEALTH CENTER (1995)
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