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The Clinical Ethics Program Manager provides leadership, strategy, vision, and service throughout the Children’s Colorado system to enhance, promote, and sustain an organizational culture committed to ethical practice and mutual respect among caregivers. This role is responsible for providing formal and informal ethics consultations; leading the ethics consultation service; organizing and leading clinical ethics rounds; collaborating with clinical teams, patients, and families to address ethical issues in pediatric healthcare. Engages in research to advance the field of bioethics and to serve the needs of the hospital; develops and implements assessment and evaluation instruments to test efficacy of ethics program interventions and services; disseminates results in internal reports and journal publications. Serves as a facilitator for change directed toward strengthening the hospital staff’s sense of moral community; contributes to the literature in the field of bioethics through academic research and publication; and remains current with the fields of bioethics, health law and philosophy.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or healthcare related field. Master’s degree in bioethics, ethics or philosophy, or formal fellowship in Bioethics.
Experience: Five (5) years in clinical bioethics, preferably in a pediatric hospital or healthcare delivery system. Prior experience with moral distress debriefing strongly preferred. Experience in performing pediatric ethics consults preferred.
Certification(s):
BLS for Healthcare Providers/CPR
ANCC recognized certification in clinical specialty.
Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) within one (1) year of hire.
Licensure(s): Based on area of expertise (RN license if RN, for example)