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The HSC Regional Ethics Committee, in association with HSC Clinical Education Centre, are delighted to launch a series of webinars focusing on ethics in practice.
Title: Telling lies to people with dementia – is it ethical?
Date: Thursday, 6 March 2025
Time: 1.00 – 2.00pm
Platform: MS Teams
Aims & Learning Outcomes
- To consider your own values and beliefs about telling lies as an intervention
- Consider the Taxonomy of Lies as a way of defining them
- Explore if lie telling can be used to support personhood
Audience
HSC employees, medical students, nursing students or other individuals interested in clinical ethical decision making
Speaker
Dr Jane Murray is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. She has been a Mental Health Nurse for more than 30 years,specialising in the care of older persons, particularly those with dementia. Dr Murray currently leads a Bachelor of Science Nursing programme at Kaplan Higher Education Academy in Singapore. She is a registered teacher and has specialist practitioner status(older persons mental health) from the Nursing and Midwifery Council, as well as registration with the Singapore Nursing Board