Online course · Australia
Values, Ethical Reasoning and Hard Decisions Under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board's Code
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners carry obligations to patients, family, community, employer and profession at the same time, and they do not always point the same way. This course offers a way of reasoning that respects relational values and helps you explain and record hard decisions.
The course starts with where values come from: why ethics is its own skill, five sources of ethical guidance and how relational values sit alongside classic principles. It then helps you name the kind of ethical problem you face and introduces the four circles method for reasoning through hard cases, with checks to test and explain your decision.
Autonomy lessons cover relational autonomy and the person's final say, dignity of risk and supported decision-making, end of life, returning to Country and advance care planning. Justice lessons cover equity without favouritism, allocating scarce resources and advocating beyond the clinic. Honesty lessons cover requests from family not to tell, honesty about uncertainty and mistakes, truthful documents and not covering for others.
The final sections deal with competing loyalties to employer, community, family and profession, conscience, moral distress and resilience, traditional healing alongside clinical care, stories and images in health promotion, and research, data and community control.
Once you enrol, open the course from My Courses whenever it suits you. It runs in your browser on desktop or mobile, with nothing to install.
Read 21 lessons grouped into 7 sections. Each lesson unlocks when you finish the one before, and your progress is kept in your browser between visits.
Pause on the worked scenarios and reflection prompts. Anything you type is kept in your course pack, which you can download in Word format or print to PDF.
Complete the final assessment of 15 scenario-based questions with a pass mark of 80% (12 of 15). Retakes are allowed.
After the reflective account and feedback, the course is marked complete in your account and your certificate of completion becomes available. It states the estimated learning time (about 2 hours); log the time you actually spend.
8 sections · About 2 hours · 15-question final assessment
Yes. It is written for the registered profession and uses examples from community-controlled, government and remote settings rather than adapting material written for other professions.
It is the reasoning approach used in the course to look at a decision from the person's view, their family and kin, the wider community and Country, and the professional and legal world, before checking and recording the outcome.
Yes. A lesson looks at research, data and community control, including principles of Indigenous data sovereignty.
This course is about ethical reasoning. The professionalism course covers registration obligations, recency, CPD, protocols and standing orders, records and accountability.
Log the date, the course name and the time you actually spend; the certificate shows only the estimated learning time. Add two or three lines on what you will do differently, and file the certificate next to your reflective account.
Probity Courses, an education provider with no affiliation to Ahpra, the National Boards or any regulator. Your Board's own codes and guidelines always take precedence over course material.
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