Keri Winchester is a 30+ year Speech-Language Pathologist currently practicing at Banner MD Anderson/Banner Gateway Medical Center. Across her years as a speech pathologist she has practiced in acute care, acute rehab, SNFs, home health and outpatient. She actively performs both MBS and FEES. She is specialized in head and neck cancer care including total laryngectomy and voice prosthesis management. She was a co-author on the “Validation of a Postextubation Dysphagia Screening Tool for Patients After Prolonged Endotracheal Intubation” in the American Journal of Critical Care, March 2018. She has been a presenter for the IAL on laryngectomy care. Within Banner Health, she has presented on head and neck cancer, laryngectomy and end of life and ethics for both rehab professionals and advanced practitioners. For 20+ years she has facilitated the local survivorship group, Support for People with Oral Head and Neck Cancer (SPOHNC). She currently sits on the Ethics Committee for Banner Gateway. In 2021, she completed her first training for her work as an End-of-Life/Death Doula and started her business Living and Leaving. She believes that conversation around end of life are important before critical illness or injury to support ones’ autonomy should they be unable to speak for themselves.


Financial Disclosures: Honorarium from MSCC
Non-financial Disclosures: 

Facilitator:  Kim Gully, MS, CCC-SLP, CCM, CBIST
Financial Disclosures:  none
Non-Financial Disclosures:  President of MSCC, Founder and Leader of New Start Support Group for TBI Survivors

Target Audience:  Medical Speech-language  pathologists

Course Description:
This course will on ethics as they relate to speech pathology and the overlap of medical ethics. As a vital member of the team you learn to recognize your role in having difficult conversations. Additionally, you will learn different methods of how to navigate difficult conversations within your day to day practice. Finally, you will learn about death and dying and how our intervention may impact the
experience of our patients

Learner Objectives:
1. Define various components of ethics and ethical decision making.
2. Identify resources for difficult conversations.
3. Provide skills/talking points/options for participating in difficult conversations.
4. Explain basics around end-of-life/death and dying.

Time ordered Agenda:
9:00 - 9:05        Intro
9:05 - 9:40        Ethics/Examples (Case Studies)
9:40 - 10:40      Difficult Conversations/Examples (Case Studies)
10:40 - 11:40     End of Life/Examples (Case Studies)
11:40 - 12:00     Q&A/Interactive Wrap Up

In order to receive credit for this course participants must complete the following requirements:  

• attend entire course
  • Join webinar on time and stay until course concludes
  • partial credit  not allowed
• complete program evaluation
  • must be completed within 7 days of completion of course in for attendance to be reported to ASHA CE Registry
  • certificate of completion will be awarded upon receipt of program evaluation

Special Requests
We encourage participation by all individuals.  If you have a disability or other special requests (visual, hearing, physical, etc.), please indicate your request in the designated section included in registration process. We will do our best to accommodate you, please allow a minimum of 14 days notice to allow us time to process your request.   

Refund Policy
Refund requests must be submitted in writing via email. Requests made more than 10 business days prior to course date will be subject to an administration fee of $15 of the registration fee if an additional cost is associated with the course.  Membership fees will not be refunded if member is not able to attend conferences that are included with annual fee.  Refund requests made less than 10 business days prior to any course that requires an additional fee for the course are subject to a $25 administrative fee.  This is to cover the costs associated with the course that have already been accrued based on preregistration.  No refunds for non-attendance will be issued on the day of, or after, the conference.

Cancellation Policy
If MSCC cancels a course that requires an additional registration fee, all members who have prepaid for the course will be refunded the registration fee in the form of the original payment within 30 business days of the cancellation of the course.   MSCC membership fee will not be refunded.

Satisfaction  Guarantee & Complaint Policy
MSCC’s continuing education offerings are designed to help professionals achieve improved performance and results in all areas.  If for any reason you are not satisfied with the content and material presented, we encourage you to file a complaint via the process outlined on our website within 30 days of the completion of the course.  Click Here for Policy

Content Disclosures
The content of this course does not focus exclusively on any specific proprietary product or service. Presenter financial and non-financial disclosures may be found in the Presenter & Disclosures area above.