PTK chapters to sponsor honors series
by Amanda Leduc, Reporter

   Phi Theta Kappa chapters on each TCC campus will host the third seminar in their honors satellite series Keeping our Promises: Improving Care at the End of Life, a 60-minute interactive conference with nationally recognized clinical ethicist, Dr. Diann Uustal.
   Founder and president of Educational Resources in Health-care, Inc., an educational consulting firm, Uustal is regarded for workshops on health care ethics and personal health care issues.
   Uustal will explore and define the differences among the medical treatments labeled “ordinary,” “extraordinary” and “futile.”
   She will address the ethics of care and complex issues concerning a patient’s quality of life in their last days.
   Uustal also will offer and explain ways in which caregivers can improve end-of-life care.
   The presentation is open to students, faculty and community members with the intent of raising awareness on these issues.
   The seminar will be broadcast live at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, on each campus.
   The NE Phi Tau Chapter will show the seminar in NSTU Center Corner.
   On Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 12:30 p.m., a rebroadcast of the seminar will be shown in the Center Corner for students who could not attend the viewing the previous night.
   The South Rho Chi Chapter will present its seminar in the SSTU Student Forum Room.
   Alpha Delta Delta on NW will broadcast in the Optimum Room in B2.
   The SE Beta Delta Omicron Chapter will hold its satellite seminar in the North Ballroom. Following the satellite presentation, the chapter will provide local guest speaker, Dr. Prowl from JPS Health Network, to continue the discussion.
   Both SE and NW chapters will have tapes of the seminars available for faculty to show in their classrooms after the live showings.
   The program, produced by Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the Two-Year College and the National    Collegiate Honors Council, is the second installment of Dimensions and Directions of Health: Choices in the Maze.