Boundary Blurring: When Long-Term Relationships and Grief Cause Moral Distress - (2025)

This webinar will explore the challenges of maintaining boundaries in long-term patient relationships and end-of-life scenarios, which can lead to moral distress. The presenter will share personal experiences of boundary blurring in an ICU setting and reflect on strategies used to prevent burnout and maintain professional resilience.

Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility; Ethics

Credits: 1.0 PDU

Learning Objective(s):

1. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to reflect on a time when their boundaries shifted due to a challenging patient case.

2. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to identify the importance of setting and continuously reevaluating professional boundaries to adjust them to protect their well-being.

3. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to identify ways to decrease moral distress and improve coping through implementing preventative and corrective coping strategies.

Please note: All webinar content and its certificate will expire on November 18, 2028, regardless of when it is purchased, accessed, or completed. At that point, contents will no longer be available in any form, including as an archive or as a PDU certificate. It is the responsibility of the learner to complete the contents and download and save the certificate for their records prior to November 18, 2028.