HCA 503
Ethical and Legal Issues for Health Care Professionals
Online Course

HCA 503 Ethical and Legal Issues for Health Care Professionals

3 Semester Units

Ethical and Legal Issues for Health Care Professionals will help students prepare for the ethical issues they will experience on the job and teach them how to evaluate the right and wrong courses of action when faced with complicated legal problems. Through contemporary topics presented with a real-world perspective, students will develop the critical thinking skills needed for the moral dilemmas they will encounter in the health care environment.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Define ethics, and analyze its importance and application to certain health care dilemmas.
  • Evaluate relevant ethical theories and principles.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary ethical dilemmas and end-of-life dilemmas.
  • Assess a variety of ethical and legal issues that arise in selected health care professions, and analyze the function and purpose of ethics committees.
  • Examine patients rights and responsibilities as well as the issue of informed consent.
  • Demonstrate proficiency with academic writing related to ethical and legal issues for health care professionals.

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