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Acupuncture during Pregnancy: Safe and Ethical Practice

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Acupuncture during Pregnancy: Safe and Ethical Practice

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Please note: Starting 2016 the NCCAOM requires 2 PDA in Ethics AND 2 PDA in Safety. Before 2016 the NCCAOM require 4 PDA in Ethics OR Safety (or combination of).
In this highly vulnerable population, missteps in the practitioner's clinical and professional conduct can have unusually large physical and emotional consequences. Our ethical responsibility to attend to our conduct is proportionately large. This class provides big-picture guidance and detailed practical advice for self-monitoring across the many ethical concerns that come up when treating pregnant patients with acupuncture and related techniques such as moxa and tui na -- including those related to malpractice and litigation.

Outline

  • Medical safety, legal safety (3 types of error and their relation to malpractice suits), and emotional urgency. Ethical practice as: defining safe boundaries with respect to one's experience level, then installing reminders for self-monitoring those boundaries.
  • Adverse events acupuncture safety in pregnancy; ongoing self-education and self-monitoring for knowledge and compliance.
  • The relationship between adverse events, professional conduct, and threat of litigation (0.5 – 30 minutes)
  • Seven 'red flags' that Acupuncturists can use to self-monitor for appropriate clinical consultation, referral, or urgent medical referral of pregnant women.
  • Twelve 'pink post-its' that Acupuncturists can use to self-monitor for appropriate professional conduct with emotionally vulnerable patients.
  • The importance and the challenge of maintaining appropriate and professional conduct when a patient interaction has been suboptimal.

Claudia Citkovitz, PhD, MS, LAc., has trained some 270 acupuncture students and practitioners in the care of inpatients at NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn. Her study of acupuncture during birth (2009) was the first in the US, as was her 2015 PhD study on acupuncture for stroke rehabilitation (2015). Her book, ‘Acupressure and Acupuncture during Birth’ was published in 2019. Claudia is an active practitioner, educator and peer reviewer, serving on the board of the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) and the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (ACAHM) and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine (JICM).



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