Manitoba Provincial Health Ethics Network

WELCOME

Welcome to the MB-PHEN website - a way for health care providers to link to health ethics resources and strategies in Manitoba and beyond.

Created in 2009 through a collaboration of Manitoba Regional Health Authorities, the goal of MB-PHEN is to advance health care ethics in Manitoba through integration, collaboration and accountability.

HEALTH ETHICS WEEK 2012
March 5-11, 2012

NAVIGATING MORAL UNCERTAINTY
WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?

What do you know for sure? Ethics is about doing the right thing...but ethical situations often involve uncertainty. When it comes to health, many of us have strong beliefs about how things ought to be done. Unfortunately, beliefs sometimes conflict. We can end up in moral dilemmas - full of uncertainty and asking many questions:

What do you know for sure? What don't you know?
How do you know what you know?
What do you do when your beliefs are questioned?
How do you find your way between two opposing convictions?
Where do you go when you are uncertain?
In a time of moral uncertainty, what helps, what doesn't?

Health Ethics Week is...
A wonderful opportunity to promote awareness, reflection and discussion about ethics in health care! It's a time for you to host or attend events that focus on health ethics issues. Events can be large or small, formal or informal...

Health care providers - find out about Health Ethics Week events in your site, program or region; host presentations and speakers, or talk about ethics during your team meetings.
Book clubs - pick a book with a health ethics theme. Read and discuss.
Families - talk about health ethics in TV shows or movies.
Friends - meet for dinner and a movie and chat about health ethics themes.
Teachers - explore health ethics themes and issues with your students.

Looking for ideas? Check out the Resources on this website.

Planning a Health Ethics Week event? We want to hear from you! Contact us.

Health Ethics Week was stared 12 years ago by Alberta's Provincial Health Ethics Network (PHEN). MB-PHEN has partnered with PHEN Alberta to promote Health Ethics Week since 2010.