Ethics, Morality, and Accountability: Confronting the Complexities of Correctional Healthcare
This webinar defines and explores some of the ethical and moral challenges unique to correctional health care. The presentation will address how personal and systemic decision-making and accountability impact professionals' commitment to ethical codes, examining moral dilemmas and the origins of moral injury. The session aims to equip correctional health care professionals with strategies to strengthen ethical decision-making, build resilience, and enhance moral courage in the face of institutional and personal challenges.
Learning Objectives
-Define the origins and features of ethical and moral dilemmas in correctional healthcare practice
-Examine the role of personal and organizational accountability in adhering to moral and ethical codes among correctional health professionals
-Develop strategies to bolster ethical decision making and foster moral courage in correctional healthcare
Presenter
Stephanie A. Gangemi, PhD Candidate, LCSW is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, College of Public Service and a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado. Dr. Gangemi brings over 14 years of social work practice and academic teaching experience. She has over a decade of experience in correctional mental health practicing at Riker's Island as well as serving as the Director of Mental Health at the El Paso County Jail. Dr. Gangemi’s clinical practice has included work with incarcerated people with severe and persistent mental illness, the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders, as well as suicide prevention. Her research is on the training and experiences of the correctional health care workforce. Dr. Gangemi became a UCCS Daniel’s Ethics Fellow in 2021 with a focus on enhancing ethics training for mental health professionals through simulation-based learning and she was the 2018 first-place winner of the international Seidenberg Paper Prize on proposed solutions to issues between guards and inmates.
Webinar Fee:
$69 ($59 for CCHPs), includes access to the power point presentation, the webinar recording and CE credit – 1.00 hour for ACCME, ANCC, APA, and CCHP.
Continuing education credit (1.00 hour) available for:
Nurses: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. NCCHC designates this educational activity for 1.0 contact hour. Nurses must attend the entire program to receive credit.
Physicians: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
NCCHC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. NCCHC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational activity has been approved for up to 1.00 hour of credit.
CCHPs: Certified Correctional Health Professionals may earn up to 1.00 contact hour of Category I continuing education for recertification.
Social Workers, counselors and others: When evaluating the presentation, select the “General” category, print your certificate, and use it to report directly to your certifying board.
Disclosure Statement
In accordance with the disclosure policy of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, everyone who is in a position to control the educational content of the Ethics, Morality, and Accountability: Confronting the Complexities of Correctional Healthcare webinar (including planners, speakers and moderators) has been asked to disclose all relevant financial interests, all affiliations, or other financial relationships within 24 months (1) with the manufacturers of any commercial product(s) and/or provider(s) of commercial services discussed in an educational presentation and (2) with any ineligible companies. Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but rather is elicited to provide information that attendees might deem important to their evaluation of an educational presentation. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to this activity. No individuals have disclosed a relevant financial relationship with any ineligible companies/commercial interests.
Financial Disclosures:
Faculty Disclosures
Stephanie Gangemi has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
NCCHC Education Committee
The NCCHC Education Committee members have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Sylvie Stacy, MD, MPH, CCHP-CP (chair)
Patricia Blair, PhD, JD, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A (vice-chair)
Joel Andrade, PhD, LICSW, CCHP-MH
Sharen Barboza, PhD, CCHP-MH
Eileen Couture, DO, RN, CCHP-P
Amy Jo Harzke, DrPH
Keith Ivens, MD
Michael Johnson, DDS, MPH
Susan Laffan, RN, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A
James Martin, MPSA, CCHP
Marci Mackenzie, PhD, LCSW, CCHP
Tami Rodriguez, PharmD
Lori Roscoe, DNP, PhD, CCHP-RN
Samuel Soltis, PhD, MHA, CCHP
Nancy White, LPC
Staff Liaisons: Toyin Alaka, Ty Jackson, Kim Sterling, MBA, CAE