Applied Law & Ethics for Health Professionals
Applied Law & Ethics for Health Professionals

Author: Carla Caldwell Stanford

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1284184560

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On a daily basis, healthcare professionals are faced with many ethical situations along with legal implications. Applied Law and Ethics for Health Professionals, Second Edition tackles ethical situations and the potential legal impacts that many healthcare professionals may face in their careers and asks them to consider their own personal values system and use reasoning skills to come to an informed outcome. Modern cases and topics are discussed, offering real-world ethical and legal accounts that may impact professionals in the field. As the text concludes, readers are again asked to gauge their growth, exploring their newly formed knowledge, values, and opinions on healthcare ethics.

Ethics for Health Professionals
Ethics for Health Professionals

Author: Carla Caldwell Stanford

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1449678327

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Ethics for Health Professionals provides a foundational understanding of ethics for healthcare students and clinicians. With a conversational tone and features within each chapter that add to its appeal including quotes, interesting facts, case studies, and more, this indispensable text offers an enjoyable, eased reading style while supplying information that can be practically and easily put into practice once the student enters the field. Many ideals can also be carried over to one's personal life in terms of ethical principles and decision making. Pedagogical features include chapter objectives, boxed articles, quotes, case studies, key terms, chapter summary, assessment review questions. Website links are also included for additional reference. Students will learn basic information while develop a meaningful understanding of ethics, its importance and application in the world of health sciences. CONTENTS * Overview of the history of ethics * Blanchard and Peale's 3-step model * Ecological Model * Approaches to ethics * Applying ethics to the health care professional * Patient Care Partnership * Vulnerable Populations * Confidentiality * The Medical Record * Patients' rights under HIPAA and privacy standards * Ethics and the Workplace * Liability and Health Care * Matters of Life and Death Ethics for Health Professionals also covers additional contemporary topics in health care including: * Integrity in Research (Including conflict of interest and Institutional Review Boards) * Central Electronic Medical Record Registry * Stem Cell Research * Euthanasia, Abortion, Assisted Suicide * How to Choose a Reliable Website for Information Gathering

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals
Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals

Author: George D. Pozgar

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2019-01-07

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1284144186

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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition is a concise and practical guide to legal and ethical dilemmas facing healthcare professionals in the real-world today. Thoroughly updated and featuring new case studies, this dynamic text will help students to better understand the issues they will face on the job and the implications in the legal arena. With contemporary topics, real-world examples, and accessible language, this comprehensive text offers students an applied perspective and the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills. Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals provides an effective transition from the classroom to the reality of a clinical environment.

Ethics, Law and Professional Issues
Ethics, Law and Professional Issues

Author: Ann Gallagher

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1350310727

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This practice-based textbook explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that characterise the field of healthcare. From seeking consent to upholding patient confidentiality, it examines a broad range of professional dilemmas from everyday practice. Detailed scenarios and engaging discussions help the reader understand how best to balance ethics, the law and professional codes of conduct in order to provide the best standards of care. Whether studying on an undergraduate nursing, midwifery or healthcare related programme or an experienced practitioner, this is essential resource for people working in healthcare looking to develop an ethically, legally and professionally sound approach to practice.

Applied Paramedic Law and Ethics
Applied Paramedic Law and Ethics

Author: Ruth Townsend

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-09-15

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0729581349

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A fundamental local law text for undergraduate paramedics in Australia and New Zealand. Applied Paramedic Law and Ethics Australia and New Zealand is the first of its kind to bring together legal and ethical concepts specifically for the Australian and New Zealand paramedic profession. An indispensable guide for student paramedics, Applied Paramedic Law and Ethics Australia and New Zealand promotes the understanding of ethical principles and legal regulations through realistic scenarios and extensive case studies, which are available both in the book and on Elsevier's Evolve platform. The book includes Australian state-specific legislation and local case law, and there is a chapter devoted specifically to the New Zealand paramedic service. This excellent law textbook focuses on the essential concepts and skills local paramedics need to respond to life-threatening emergencies in often-unfamiliar environments. For paramedics to determine the best course of action in any situation they need an intimate understanding of the profession's code of conduct and current legal regulations. In its attention to key areas such as consent, negligence, child protection, mental health and record-keeping Applied Paramedic Law and Ethics Australia and New Zealand proves a fundamental resource for the undergraduate paramedic course in Australia and New Zealand. The textbook's 13 comprehensive chapters are written in a clear, engaging style ideal for undergraduate paramedic students as well as ambulance service volunteers and practicing paramedics. - Over 60 paramedic-specific scenarios - Relevant case law discussed - Suitable for the undergraduate course in Paramedic Law and Ethics - Provides a clear ethical decision-making model for paramedics Key supporting features available on the Evolve platform: - Multiple choice, short answer and essay questions - Case studies - Image collection - Additional instructor resources including PowerPoints and further case studies

Applied Law & Ethics for Health Professionals
Applied Law & Ethics for Health Professionals

Author: Carla Caldwell Stanford

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2019-01-07

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1284155595

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On a daily basis, healthcare professionals are faced with many ethical situations along with legal implications. Applied Law and Ethics for Health Professionals, Second Edition tackles ethical situations and the potential legal impacts that many healthcare professionals may face in their careers and asks them to consider their own personal values system and use reasoning skills to come to an informed outcome. Modern cases and topics are discussed, offering real-world ethical and legal accounts that may impact professionals in the field. As the text concludes, readers are again asked to gauge their growth, exploring their newly formed knowledge, values, and opinions on healthcare ethics.

Ethics and Health Care
Ethics and Health Care

Author: John C. Moskop

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1316495302

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Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This book provides a concise introduction to the major concepts, principles and issues in health care ethics, using case studies throughout to illustrate and analyse challenging ethical issues in contemporary health care. Topics range widely, from confidentiality and truthfulness to end-of-life care and research on human subjects. Ethics and Health Care will be a vital resource for students of applied ethics, bioethics, professional ethics, health law and medical sociology, as well as students of medicine, nursing and other health care professions.

LAW and ETHICS for HEALTH PROFESSIONS 8E
LAW and ETHICS for HEALTH PROFESSIONS 8E

Author: Karen Judson

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9781260092653

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Law and Ethics for Health Professions explains how to navigate the numerous legal and ethical issues that health care professionals face every day. Topics are based upon real-world scenarios and dilemmas from a variety of health care practitioners. Through the presentation of Learning Outcomes, Key Terms, From the Perspective of, Ethics Issues, Chapter Reviews, Case Studies, Internet Activities, Court Cases, and Video Vignettes, students learn about legal and ethical problems and situations that health care professions currently face. In the eighth edition, chapter 3 contains an expanded section on accreditation of hospitals and other patient care facilities, and of health care education programs. Students also use critical thinking skills to learn how to resolve real-life situations and theoretical scenarios and to decide how legal and ethical issues are relevant to the health care profession in which they will practice.

Public Health Law and Ethics
Public Health Law and Ethics

Author: Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9780520231740

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A collection of articles and documents designed as a companion to Gostin's textbook, American Public Health Law.

The Ethics of Professional Practice
The Ethics of Professional Practice

Author: Richard D. Parsons

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This book addresses ethical issues and principles in human services professions including social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy. All of these professions must be sensitive to ethical standards and dilemmas, particularly given the increase in litigation surrounding ethical issues. This book leads the reader through a personal journey of discovery, assessment, and clarification of values and ethics. The focus is to help the reader assimilate ethical principles, thus becoming an ethical practitioner. The book reflects the ethical codes of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Sound pedagogy includes learning objectives, cases, and guided exercises, all intended to raise the reader's self-awareness of issues of values, ethics, and professional standards. For professionals in social work, counseling, psychology, or marriage and family therapy.