FREE May Webinar – Navigating the Liminal Grey Spaces: Embedding Ethics into the Palliative Care Approach

Ethics is something we all carry with us but not everyone realizes how our personal ethics often influence our professional practices. In this session we will discuss ‘what even is ethics’? We will also aim to address and explore why ethics matters when we deliver palliative care.  

Learning Outcomes

• Discuss what ethics is and why it matters in palliative care practices
• Reflect upon which ethical principles resonate with and guide participants
• Recognize and acknowledge the varied ethical approaches that can be taken in palliative care
• Be able to identify ethical tensions when they arise

Presented by Mahoganie Hines

Register for the webinar here!

More about Mahoganie:

Mahonganie is a hospice palliative care nurse and is on the advisory committee with Life and Death Matters! Mahoganie volunteers her time in various capacities acting as the previous Registered Nurses Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) Policy and Political Action ENO for the Palliative Care Nurse’s Interest Group for several years and is currently the President. She has sat on the inaugural executive board of the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association (CPCNA) as the Secretary/Treasurer and currently is the President-elect, stepping into the President role this Spring. She is a previous Past Chair for the Palliative Care Consultants Network. Currently, she works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist on the Palliative Care Unit of St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton and has worked as an educator for HPCO, Georgian College & Brock University. 

She sat on the expert panel of the RNAO’s Best Practice Guideline: End of Life in the last 12 months: Adults with life-limiting and progressive illness (2020) and currently on the expert panel for the fourth iteration of the Assessment and Pain Management BPG. Advocacy is a cornerstone of her practice. She has spoken at Queen’s Park about the need for equity and accessibility for all to receive excellent Palliative Care through the development of the Compassionate Care Act, which in December 2020 reached royal assent and became law. Finally, she has been honoured with numerous awards for her practice, most recently receiving the Larry Librach Prize in Ethics and End of Life Care (2023) and was honoured as 2023’s recipient of the Brock University Distinguished Alumni for the faculty of Applied Health Sciences, as well as Niagara’s 40 under 40 (2020), Nursing Now Ontario award for the RN category (2021), RNAO Leadership award in Political Action 2021 and Dorothy Monteith Scholarship (2022). When she is not working, she also volunteers her time at the roller derby referee for the Niagara Roller Derby League.