Promoting Legal & Ethical Awareness: Module 3 (Electronic Download)

Promoting Legal & Ethical Awareness: Module 3 (Electronic Download) SKU: 409E This course is offered in cooperation with Elsevier Science and utilizes the softback textbook, “Promoting Legal and Ethical Awareness: A Primer for Health Professionals and Patients”, by Ron Scott, c2009. Covering the legal and ethical issues involved with patient care, this book provides you with a framework for making important health-related decisions on patient care. It includes the latest information on HIPAA, IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), ADA (the Americans with Disabilities Act), and the No Child Left Behind Act. It also discusses methods of alternative dispute resolution and makes recommendations for improving attorney-health professional-client relations. Module 1 covers legal and ethical foundations and the law of health care malpractice. Topics include: the nature of the American legal system, jurisdiction, criminal and civil law defined and distinguished, the litigation process, bases for moral conduct, enforcement of ethics codes, professional codes of ethics, legal bases for imposing liability for patient injury and internal and external factors increasing health care professionals’ malpractice liability exposure. Module 2 covers intentional wrongs and ethical and legal issues in employment. Topics include: intentional torts (assault, battery, fraud, etc), criminal law, ethical and legal issues in workplace sexual harassment and human resource management issues. Module 3 covers business law and ethics, legal and ethical issues in education and a focus on professional ethics. Topics include: business torts, antitrust and administrative law, contracts, Good Samaritan laws, liability risk management for clinical instructors and affiliation sites, life and death decision making, nondiscrimination in health care delivery, gifts, and more. Order this product and it will be available to you immediately after purchase for electronic download in the “My Downloads” section of your account after you have logged in. The download files will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed, you may download it at no charge from Adobe.com. Course Length: 4.0 contact hours Instructional Level: Beginner/Intermediate This package includes the reading and testing materials for Module 3 only. Promoting Legal & Ethical Awareness:Module 3 Course Goals: The goal is this course is to educate the student, through self-paced study, on business law and ethics, legal and ethical issues in education and legal and ethical issues with informed consent and professional practice issue Student Objectives: At the end of this course the student will be able to 1. Identify the components of antitrust law 2. Identify the 3 federal statutes that provide the framework for federal antitrust regulation 3. Identify the importance of Bates and Van O’Steen v State Bar of Arizona and its impact on the health care industry 4. Identify the importance of having access to proper legal advice and representation 5. Identify 9 tips for prospective non-expert deponents 6. Identify 3 business torts 7. Identify the difference between bilateral and unilateral contracts 8. Identify 4 basic required elements common to all contracts 9. Identify 6 forms of business organizations 10. Identify the need for reform with the good Samaritan statutes 11. Identify 2 broad purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 12. Identify 4 things HIPAA privacy rules do for patients 13. Identify 3 general classifications of protected health information disclosures 14. Identify 10 standard operating procedures pursuant to the HIPAA Privacy Rule 15. Identify the need for health care providers to have professional liability insurance 16. Identify the impact of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 on education 17. Identify the legal aspects of patient informed consent to treatment and how the views have changed in regard to rehabilitative medicine 18. Identify 2 cases where professional negligence malpractice litigation based on a lack of informed consent is legally actionable. 19. Identify 5 things that must be related to the patient for informed consent to treatment 20. Identify exceptions to the requirement to obtain patient informed consent 21 Identify 4 principle circumstances that may justify the writing of a DNR order 22. Identify the positive and negative issues associated pro bono service 23. Identify 7 elements that must be included in human subject research informed consent forms