Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference
Healthcare ethical dilemmas are rarely black and white. The gray area, where different
perspectives intersect, is where difficult questions arise. What can we do as healthcare
professionals to have more clarity in these unsure situations?
Advancing ethical practice in healthcare requires grappling with difficult, often
complex ethical problems and dilemmas. In this new forum, a diverse group of
ethicists, philosophers, nurses and other healthcare professionals will meet to address
contemporary ethical issues in healthcare, and will discuss solutions to the most
challenging problems for ethical practice and policy. Please see the current agenda
to plan your conference experience.
The conference takes place at the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa in
Clearwater Beach, Florida.
Conference Information
Program Schedule and Agenda
The agenda for the 2027 Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference will
be announced when available. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Speakers and Presenters
The speakers for the 2027 Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference have
not yet been selected. Please check back for updates.
Contact Hours
Contact hours will be offered for nursing:
Nine (9) contact hours for nursing, social work, and psychology will be available
if the entirety of the conference (both Thursday and Friday) is attended and the evaluation
is completed by the deadline noted on the disclosure form.
If only Thursday is attended, you will receive up to five (5) contact hours. If only
Friday is attended, you will receive up to four (4) contact hours. Please note that
the evaluation is required to receive any continuing education.
Duquesne University, School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing
professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission
on Accreditation.
Endorsed by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities The Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference includes speakers, panels
and presentations, as well as receptions and other opportunities to meet, greet and
discuss with a wide array of professionals interested in healthcare ethics.
Hotel Information
Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa, Clearwater Beach, FL
We look forward to welcoming you to theHyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa!The beachfront four-diamond resort offers 287 luxurious condo-style guest rooms with
walkout balconies for water and sunset views.
Steps away from the powder-white sands of Clearwater Beach, the resort brings world-class
style and amenities to the west coast of Florida. Balanced between the turquoise-blue
waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the picturesque Intracoastal Waterway, Hyatt Regency
Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa delivers an idyllic location on the new Clearwater
Beach Walk, along with the sophistication, comfort, and convenience of a luxury resort.
Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa 301 South Gulfview Blvd Clearwater Beach, Florida 33767
Hotel General Info: (727) 373-1234
Reservations
Reservations for the 2027 Conference are not yet open. Please check back
regularly for updates.
A Letter From the Chairs
Dear Conference Participants, Presenters and Sponsors,
We are delighted to welcome you, or welcome you back, to the fourth biennial Carol
Carfang Nursing & Healthcare Ethics Conference. Over the next few days in beautiful
Clearwater Beach, Florida, we will examine, reflect upon and confront the many difficult
ethical and practical challenges that arise in healthcare today. Our presenters range
from nurses to philosophers, physicians to clinical ethicists, and genetic counselors
to health law and policy experts. Our conference program reflects the diversity and
depth of ethical challenges across multiple areas of healthcare, and calls for collaboration
in addressing them.
The School of Nursing at Duquesne University is committed to interdisciplinary education,
scholarship, and the value of the humanistic aspects and ethical underpinnings of
nursing practice. At the heart of our approach to educating future nurses, advanced
practice nurses and nurse researchers is the conviction that clinical work is a moral
enterprise. Excellence in nursing practice requires not only acuity of mind and clinical
competence, but also a firm moral identity and a responsiveness to the numerous ethical
challenges arising from clinical care.
At the Duquesne School of Nursing, we integrate ethics education into the curriculum—from
our rigorous BSN program to our PhD in Nursing Ethics program—with the expectation
that our graduates will excel as clinicians and as moral leaders in healthcare. The
Carfang Conference is a natural extension of this conviction.
We thank you for participating in what we expect to be a vigorous and enlightening
event, and we look forward to seeing you again in 2025 for the next Carol Carfang
Nursing & Healthcare Conference.
Sincerely,
Mary Ellen Glasgow, Dean and Professor, Chair Eric Vogelstein, Associate Professor and Director of Ethics for the School of Nursing,
Co-Chair Michael Deem, Associate Professor and Director of the Consortium Ethics Program, Co-Chair
