1. Identify the common ethical dilemmas that occur when working with people in illness care environments and the strategies to reduce or cope with ethical dissonance.
2. Recognize appropriate ways to present yourself as a professional in hospitals, nursing facilities and home care settings.
3. List the recommended modifications for providing skilled touch to ill or injured people, including the common contraindications.
4. Identify the recommended approaches to working with people who are seriously ill or dying.
5. Identify the most common areas for ischemia (pressure sores or decubiti) in immobile persons and the best therapeutic approaches for working with them.
6. Achieve at least 80% correct on the open-book test.

"How do we deal with transference? First, we do NOT point out to the client what we imagine his or her transference to be. Remember that transference is unconscious. It is arrogant to assume that we know what another person's unconscious motivations are. Our job is to set and maintain clear and consistent personal and professional boundaries, or limits, to be most therapeutic towards the client.

When we recognize our own transference to the client, we may benefit from talking it over with a trusted professional peer. In fact, one of the best ways to prevent ethical mistakes is to have a regular and on-going relationship with another professional who can provide objective feedback to your practice experiences. Why wait until you are in the middle of a crisis to seek objectivity, when it can be an on-going part of your professional development? In addition to providing objectivity, professional peers can help us explore our ethics."

1. discuss with your clients the details of each potential issue as it arises
2. give a copy of your professional code of ethics to your clients and ask them to tell you if they think you are unethical
3. trust that your professional liability insurance will take care of any mistakes you might make
4. have an on-going relationship with another professional who can provide objective feedback about your practice experiences