How Health Professional Can Navigate Multiple Relationships and Ethical Boundaries Across Campus

How Health Professional Can Navigate Multiple Relationships and Ethical Boundaries Across Campus

The ethics of multiple relationships in healthcare professions has historically received significant attention, particularly from a “do no harm” risk management approach. Less attention has been paid to multiple relationships in university healthcare settings, where they are frequent and unavoidable. The presentation will address both a risk management and positive ethics approach, including a brief history of multiple relationships, defining terminology, sharing real world examples, and applying an ethical decision making model to case studies.

Brought to you by the ACHA Ethics Committee.

Session Information

Format: Internet live 
Date: April 29, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm ET

Format: Internet, self-paced 
Release Date: April 30, 2025
Expiration Date: April 29, 2027

After the expiration date, this session will no longer be accessible for viewing or downloading.
CE Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by the expiration date.

Cost:
FREE

Speaker(s)

Ian Wallace, PhD, California State University, Maritime Academy 

Marie Ekmekjian, LPCC, CRC, California State University, Maritime Academy 

Intended Audience

• Administrator
• Advanced Practice Clinician
• Mental Health Professional
• Nurse
• Physician, Physician Assistant
• Psychiatrist 

Learning Objectives

After this session, participants should be able to:

1. Define types of multiple relationships and distinguish between ethical and unethical multiple relationships.
2. Differentiate between boundary crossings and violations, as well as related terminology.
3. Apply ethical standards to navigate multiple relationships.

Program Planning Committee 

Scott Henderson, MD, FACHA 

Kiera Walker, LPC, NCC

Michael Malmon, PhD

For more information about this session or its speaker(s), contact education@acha.org.

Credit/Contact Hours and Disclosures

Types of Credit/Contact Hours Available

Refer to the Continuing Education Key.

• CME: 1.0
• PsyCE: 1.0
• NBCC: 1.0

**** NBCC credits are only available to attendees of the live webinar.

Deadlines

Claim your credit/contact hours or certificate on each session's Contents tab by the deadline.

If you attended the session LIVE: Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by May 20, 2025.

If you viewed the session as a RECORDING: Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by April 29, 2027.

Relevant Financial Relationships

None of the presenters or planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Successful Completion to Obtain Credit/Contact Hours (or certificate of attendance)

Criteria for successful completion is commensurate with participation and passing of a post-test with a minimum of an 80%.

Select the "Contents" tab above (registered users only) for access to the following components. It is estimated that it will require 60 minutes to view the webinar and complete the post-test. Credit/Contact Hours must be requested by the program expiration date (see "Overview" tab above).

Step 1:  View/Attend the session in its entirety.

Step 2:  Complete the mandatory Attestation and Post-test (passing score of 80%) for CE Credit/Contact Hours. See below for post-test passing requirements.

Step 3:  Select the certificate for the type of credit/contact hour you are requesting. Select "Certificate of Attendance" if no credit/contact hour is being requested. 

Continuing Education Statements 

Continuing Education

The American College Health Association (ACHA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACHA designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ACHA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ACHA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program has been awarded 1.0 hour of continuing education for psychologists.

The American College Health Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6397. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACHA is solely responsible for all aspects the program.

Policies 

Post-test Policy
It is the policy of the American College Health Association that when a post-test is required upon completion of a continuing education activity, participants must receive a passing grade of 80%. If participants receive a grade lower than 80%, they will be given the opportunity to re-take the post-test one time. If they receive 80% or higher the second time, they will be awarded continuing education credits/contact hours for the activity. We encourage participants to complete the post-test immediately after viewing the program.

Off-Label Product Use
This educational activity does not include any unannounced information about off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Non-endorsement
ACHA does not endorse any products or services that are displayed or referred to in conjunction with this activity and is not responsible for the actual presentation of content during scientific sessions.

Non-discrimination 
The American College Health Association (ACHA) supports institutional, as well as legislative or regulatory initiatives to promote a campus climate guided by the values of inclusion, respect, equality and equity. ACHA rejects all forms of intolerance and bias, whether implicit or explicit. Such a climate is essential to college health and wellbeing.

Consistent with these values, ACHA rejects all forms of discriminatory conduct with respect to: age; race/ethnicity; sex; sexual orientation; gender, including gender identity and expression; marital status; physical size; psychological/physical/learning ability; religious, spiritual or cultural identity; socioeconomic status; veteran status; or any other class of persons. ACHA actively strives to eliminate bias and discriminatory conduct from all its policies, procedures, communications, actions and activities.