Main description:

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 Videos, students learn about current legal and ethical problems and situations. In the ninth edition, material has been revised to reflect the current health care environment. As students progress through the text, they will get the opportunity to 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction to Law and Ethics

1.1 Why Study Law and Ethics?

1.2 Comparing Aspects of Law and Ethics

1.3 Qualities of Successful Health Care Practitioners

Chapter Review

Chapter 2 Making Ethical Decisions

2.1 Value Development Theories

2.2 Value Choices Theories

2.3 Principles of Health Care Ethics

Chapter Review

Chapter 3 Working in Health Care

3.1 Licensure, Certification, Registration, and Scope of Practice

3.2 Accreditation

3.3 Practice Acts and Professional Boards

3.4 Business Aspects of Health Care

3.5 Managed Care Organizations

Chapter Review

Chapter 4 Law, the Courts, and Contracts

4.1 The Basis of and Primary Sources of Law

4.2 Classifications of Law

4.3 Tort Liability

4.4 Contracts

4.5 Physicians' and Patients' Rights and Responsibilities

Chapter Review

Chapter 5 Professional Liability

5.1 Liability

5.2 Standard of Care and Duty of Care

5.3 The Tort of Negligence

5.4 Elements of a Lawsuit

5.5 Alternative Dispute Resolution

5.6 Informed Consent

Chapter Review

Chapter 6 Defenses to Liability Suits

6.1 Preventing Liability Suits

6.2 Types of Defenses

6.3 Risk Management

6.4 Professional Liability Insurance

Chapter Review

Chapter 7 Medical Records and Health Information Technology

7.1 Medical Records

7.2 Medical Records Ownership, Retention, Storage, and Destruction

7.3 Records Release

7.4 Health Information Technology (HIT)

7.5 Social Media

7.6 Telemedicine

Chapter Review

Chapter 8 Privacy, Security, and Fraud

8.1 The U.S. Constitution and Federal Privacy Laws

8.2 Privacy and Confidentiality

8.3 HIPAA's Privacy and Security Rules

8.4 Controlling Health Care Fraud and Abuse

Chapter Review

Chapter 9 Public Health Responsibilities of Health Care Practitioners

9.1 Vital Statistics

9.2 Public Health Functions

9.3 Reportable Diseases and Injuries

9.4 Drug Regulations

Chapter Review

Chapter 10 Workplace Legalities

10.1 Basic Employment Law

10.2 OSHA's Workplace Priorities

10.3 OSHA, CDC, and CLIA Guidelines and Regulations

10.4 Workers' Compensation and Unemployment Insurance

10.5 Hiring and the New Employee

Chapter Review

Chapter 11 The Beginning of Life and Childhood

11.1 Family History as a Predictor

11.2 DNA Testing

11.3 Genetic Engineering

11.4 Conception and the Beginning of Life

11.5 Rights of Children

Chapter Review

Chapter 12 Death and Dying

12.1 Attitudes toward Death and the Determination of Death

12.2 Legal Documents for Terminally Ill Patients

12.3 Health Care Services for Terminally Ill Patients

12.4 The Right to Die Movement

12.5 The National Organ Transplant Act

12.6 The Grieving Process

Chapter Review

Chapter 13 Stakeholders, Costs, and Patients' Rights

13.1 The Stakeholders

13.2 Cost of Health Care

13.3 Access and Quality

13.4 Paying for Health Care

13.5 Patients' Bill of Rights

Chapter Review