Healthcare Decision-Making: Informed Consent, Capacity, and Free Will (Oh My!) 9/23/26
Date/Time
Time: 9:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: LIVESTREAM
Cost: $39.99
Credits: 2 CE Credits
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
Presenter(s)
This event will be a previously recorded training proctored by a live, licensed professional.
CEU Creations presents:
Healthcare Decision-Making: Informed Consent, Capacity, and Free Will (Oh My!) 9/23/26
This event will be a previously recorded training proctored by a live, licensed professional.
FEATURING:
- Best practices and principles of informed consent
- Ethical principles at play when assessing decision-making capacity
EVENT INFO:
9:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
COST:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
Social Workers:
ASWB ACE – 2 Ethics CE credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 2 Contact hours
Psychologists:
APA – 2 CE credits
Counselors: 2 Contact or 2 Ethics hours
NBCC ACEP – 2 Contact hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 2 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals:
NAADAC – 2 Contact hours
Nurses:
California Board of Registered Nursing – 2 Contact hours
Case Managers:
CCMC – 2 CE Ethics hours
Long-Term Care Administrators:
This course is not approved for NAB/NCERS participant hours.
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Counselors: If this course awards Ethics hours, please note that some states do not recognize Ethics hours; in those cases, Contact hours will be awarded.
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, and case managers
Counseling Skill Group:
5. Documentation
6. Case Management
8. Legal, Ethical and Professional Development
OVERVIEW:
Informed consent is a critical aspect of patient autonomy and respecting our patients’ dignity and worth. The consent process empowers patients to make informed decisions about their own care, treatment, and participation in medical research. There is an art and craft to high quality informed consent, often lost in the increasingly virtual, fast-paced healthcare environment. Within the informed consent process, there is an assumption that the patient has the ability to process the information they are receiving, weigh the benefits and consequences, and make a knowledgeable decision. When there is concern about the patient’s insight and judgment during this process, the next step is a capacity assessment.
This presentation will begin with a discussion of best practices and principles of informed consent and then move into a discussion of how to assess decision-making capacity. The speaker will also explore legal and ethical principles at play when discussing decision-making capacity, and how a clinician can move forward when a patient makes an “unwise” decision.
OBJECTIVES:
By attending this training, you will be able to:
1. Define the principles of informed consent.
2. Describe the triggers for a capacity assessment.
3. Discover the ethical principles at play when assessing decision-making capacity.
4. Identify complex situations that require additional system support.
AGENDA (all times are Eastern):
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Presentation
PRESENTER BIO:
Lisa began her career serving as a community guardian for incapacitated older adults before joining NewYork-Presbyterian’s distinguished geriatrics team and ultimately moving fully into healthcare leadership. She has front-line experience navigating the intersection of the healthcare and legal systems, and uses this knowledge to educate physicians on ethical issues in gerontology, including capacity assessments and elder abuse. She has developed and implemented screening tools and response protocols to address elder abuse within the acute care setting. Lisa has advanced training in trauma-focused care, family systems, and healthcare management. She is a former Hartford Fellow in Geriatric Mental Health and a former advisor for the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team at Weill Cornell Medical College. Lisa operates a small geriatric care management practice and acts as a consultant and speaker on psychosocial health in the aging population and ethical decision-making in work with cognitively impaired clients.
COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:
To ensure you are ready to participate, please review these tips and tricks to ensure a better webinar experience.
This live webinar is fully interactive; a computer is required. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. Zoom account is not required.
You will receive a reminder email approximately 24 hours prior to the start of the training and a link to join the webinar will be in your CEU Creations account under Member Profile.
To receive credit, you must log in on time, attend the entire presentation, and interact.
POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account and we ask that you complete it within 3 days of the training. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours.
Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
FINE PRINT
SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Ethics CE credits.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616. This activity is approved for 2 Contact hours.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: 2 CE credits. CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS: 2 Contact or 2 Ethics hours 
CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199. This activity is approved for 2 Contact hours.
ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS: This course has been approved by CEU Creations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 2 CEs. NAADAC Provider #324725. CEU Creations is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
NURSES: 2 Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits.
Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.
Accessibility Accommodations: At CEU Creations, we are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all individuals. We strive to ensure our continuing education content, website, and services are usable by everyone, regardless of ability. We are continually working to enhance accessibility and user experience for all of our users. If you encounter any barriers, have questions, or wish to request accommodations, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can contact us at [email protected] and a member of our team will review your message and respond promptly.
Event Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy: In the event that CEU Creations cancels or reschedules an event, registered participants will be given the option to receive a full refund, a credit toward a different event of the same value, or to transfer their registration to the rescheduled date.