Webinar Materials
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services:
Implications for Spiritual Care Decision-Making
Presented by Nathaniel Blanton Hibner, PhD
Thursday, April 30, 2020 – 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. Central Time
Program Summary
The webinar will examine the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) and offer guidance as to how they can be applied for spiritual care.
Program Objectives
As a result of this webinar, participants will be able:
- To explain the purpose of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) and relate the directives to the Catholic moral tradition;
- To offer examples for applying the ERDs to situations that occur in the health care setting;
- To suggest ways the spiritual care provider might use the ERD's in ethical discernment.
About the Presenter
Nathaniel Blanton Hibner, Ph.D., is director of ethics for the Catholic Health Association of the United States. In this role, he provides research and suggested implementation of the church's moral tradition for CHA member organizations in areas of clinical and organizations ethics. Together with CHA's senior director of theology and ethics, Nathaniel creates educational and formational programming on moral theology and its relationship to current topics for the Catholic health ministry. Prior to joining CHA in 2017, Nathaniel earned his Ph.D. from the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University, where he researched organizational ethics, bioethics and Catholic health care ethics. He also taught an undergraduate course on Foundations in Health Care Ethics. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and theology and a master's degree in theological studies from Boston College. He also has a master's degree in health care ethics from Saint Louis University.
NACC Certification Competencies Covered by the Webinar: ITP2.1, ITP4.1
Materials
April 30 2020 Webinar Fact Sheet (The Fact Sheet contains call-in instructions and numbers)
NACC_ Intro to ERDs 1 Slide per Page
NACC_ Intro to ERDs 3 Slides per Page
CEH certificate
Click here to download the 2020 Webinar CEH certificate
Webinar recordings
April 30, 2020 recording