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.
With coverage of both legal and ethical issues, this text gives you the foundation to handle common health care challenges in everyday practice. Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professions, 4th Edition includes practice cases specifically developed for key allied health programs along with enhanced pedagogical content. Additionally, it features a variety of exercises to help reinforce content from the book, as well as updated coverage of medical records, privacy, patient consent and abuse, the impact of interprofessional team work, and key industry trends. Detailed coverage of current legal and ethical issues and case law help facilitate interesting and relevant discussions. What If? boxes present ethical dilemmas and help you apply concepts from the book to real-life examples. Specialty practice cases provide practical application for specialties (Medical Assisting, MIBC, Pharm Tech, etc.) and help you relate your experience with practice. Increased coverage of the impact of interprofessional teamwork demonstrates the impact ethics have on health care work. NEW! Two all new chapters covering Medical Records and Key Trends in Healthcare. NEW! Enhanced coverage of patient consent and abuse outlines what students need to know about what’s right and wrong when working with patients. NEW! Updated case studies discuss the issues faced in a variety of healthcare settings.
Now in its Seventh Edition and in vivid full-color, this groundbreaking book continues to champion the “Have a Care” approach, while also providing readers with a strong ethical and legal foundation that enables them to better serve their clients. The book addresses all major issues facing healthcare professionals today, including legal concerns, important ethical issues, and the emerging area of bioethics.
With coverage of both legal and ethical issues, this text gives you the foundation to handle common health care challenges in everyday practice. Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professions, 4th Edition includes practice cases specifically developed for key allied health programs along with enhanced pedagogical content. Additionally, it features a variety of exercises to help reinforce content from the book, as well as updated coverage of medical records, privacy, patient consent and abuse, the impact of interprofessional team work, and key industry trends. Detailed coverage of current legal and ethical issues and case law help facilitate interesting and relevant discussions. What If? boxes present ethical dilemmas and help you?apply concepts from the book to real-life examples. Specialty practice cases provide practical application for specialties (Medical Assisting, MIBC, Pharm Tech, etc.) and help you relate your experience with practice. Increased coverage of the impact of interprofessional teamwork demonstrates the impact ethics have on health care work. NEW! Two all new chapters covering Medical Records and Key Trends in Healthcare. NEW! Enhanced coverage of patient consent and abuse outlines what students need to know about what's right and wrong when working with patients. NEW! Updated case studies discuss the issues faced in a variety of healthcare settings.
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
Learn how to handle the legal and ethical challenges you will encounter in healthcare practice! Comprehensive yet easy to understand, Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 5th Edition provides a guide to legal concepts and ethical principles and how they are applied in common healthcare scenarios. Content includes key topics such as the legal system, bioethical issues, employment laws, torts, and medical malpractice and liability, as well as current issues such as medical marijuana, the opioid crisis, gender identity, and public health and immunization policies. Questions in each chapter ask you to think critically as you relate concepts to real-world situations. Updated to meet the needs of today’s workplace, this text prepares you to fulfill the moral and professional responsibilities of the healthcare provider. Case studies reflect the issues faced in a variety of healthcare settings. Specialty practice cases provide practical application of legal and ethical issues in specialties such as medical assisting, MIBC, and pharm tech. What If? boxes present ethical dilemmas and help you apply concepts to real-life scenarios. Internet Activities at the end of every chapter suggest related topics for further research and study. Chapter objectives and key terms are listed at the beginning of each chapter, providing learning goals and definitions of important terminology. Relate to Practice boxes help you respond to situations that may occur in healthcare practice. Self-Reflection Questions challenge you to analyze and evaluate various legal and ethical issues. NEW! Mandatory Reporting and Public Duties in Healthcare chapter covers public health law, including the role of state and federal health agencies in managing infectious diseases, emergencies, chronic diseases, and injury prevention. NEW! Conflict Management chapter addresses aspects of this important workplace topic.
The fourth edition of this bestselling title is designed to help you think critically and thoughtfully about ethical decisions you'll face in practice-in any health care discipline. Utilizing a unique 6-step decision making process designed by the author, this multi-disciplinary text provides an expert framework for making effective choices that lead to a professional and caring response to patients and clients.
Ethics and Law for the Health Professions is a cross-disciplinary medico-legal book, the first edition of which was widely used in the medical world. We believe it is also of immense use to the legal world when grappling with medico-legal issues. Its special features are its focus on a clinically-relevant approach and its recognition that health care professionals are often confronted with legal and ethical issues simultaneously. Health professionals have to satisfy both, and their legal advisers need to be aware of the dilemmas this can present. This book is careful to distinguish between ethics and law. Its chapters take account of all the health professions and their differing responsibilities, and the book covers a very wide range of the issues they face.
