HM 575 – Health Care Ethics: Process & Applications

COURSE INFORMATION

This CE course focuses on the major components of Ethics as applied to Healthcare Administration. This course is designed for those Healthcare professionals who want to learn how to balance the ethics of service to patients with sound business decisions. Potential students may include hospital administrators, nurse managers, working supervisors, assistant managers and department managers and those healthcare professionals who are members of or work with their organizations Ethics decision makers. In addition, Nurses practicing in the Legal field and as Cases Managers can benefit from this course as well. We recognize that managers need a sound understanding of Ethics in Healthcare Administration and how it affects their working environment.  Our goal is to provide you with a solid foundation, with sufficient guidance, and enough information about Ethics in Healthcare Administration to be beneficial to your work life. This knowledge will be helpful. for both prospective and sitting managers to be successful in the daily running of their departments and managing the challenges that those who work in healthcare. Our goal is to create an awareness about doing the right thing the right way. Study how decisions are made that are both fiscally sound and ethically based. New ethical challenges have been created by healthcare’s dynamic environment that include technology advancements, telemedicine, genetic engineering, population health, practice models and genetic engineering. Our text is filled with interesting case studies that demonstrate how the fiscally sound and ethically based decision-making process is applied in practice. Healthcare professionals must have a solid foundation for ethical decision making not only includes the impact on their organization but also includes consideration of their patients, staff members and their community. You will learn about factors that influence ethical decisions.

This course will expose any prospective or sitting manager to the many contemporary issues they need to be conversant with to be successful in their jobs.

In this 5th and last course of the Ethics Health Care Certification program our program goal is to prepare you to become a subject matter expert on Health Care Ethics topics and application of the concepts that you may need to address in your organization. Upon program completion you should be comfortable in the role of Ethics Consultant, Ethics advisor or Ethics committee member in your organization having obtained your HCEC-C.

Course Code: HM 575. Contact hours of Continuing Education = 40.

Instructor/Course Author:  Mark C. Barabas, BS, DHA, FACHE

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E-mail: mcbarabas@aol.com

TEXTBOOK: There is one (1) required textbook for this course.

Ethics in Health Administration: A Practical Approach for Decision Makers: A Practical Approach for Decision Makers 4th Edition by Eileen E. Morrison, Jones & Bartlett Learning.

ISBN-10: 1284156117
ISBN-13: 978-1284156119
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TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete this course. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.

GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 40 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score, will be presented.

BOARD APPROVALS:

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is an Approved Provider for Continuing Education by the South Carolina Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board, Provider # 4637. Access information

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 40 Contact Hours.

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc. is an Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Florida State Board of Nursing  Provider # 50-11975.

OTHER STATE BOARDS OF NURSING

The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Kentucky Board of Nursing CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.

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ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS

* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.

* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.

* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.

* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.

* Additional Learning Materials: All course handouts are available in the online Video classrooms. All E-Learning Books are available in the classrooms for students to download.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

 Chapter 1:

  1. Define ethics and its categories.
  2. Describe key principles of four global-based ethical theorists.
  3. Apply theories to practical of health care situations

Chapter 2:

  1. Relate the principle of autonomy to health care.
  2. Identify the key elements in informed consent.
  3. Analyze confidentiality’s importance in health care. 4. Interpret autonomy’s application in real world situations

Chapter 3:

  1. Define nonmaleficence, harm, and beneficence.
  2. Explain how to prevent harm in health care.
  3. Describe ways to increase beneficence in health care.
  4. Illustrate how civility and incivility affects the workplace

Chapter 4:

  1. Define the terms related to the principle of justice.
  2. Explain the patient’s view of justice.
  3. Analyze the issues faced in distributive justice.

Chapter 5:

  1. Discuss the ethical implications of diffusion of innovation.
  2. Explain how the technology revolution creates ethics issues.
  3. Relate innovations in financing to the practice of ethics.
  4. Describe how population health affects healthcare practice and ethics.

Chapter 6:

  1.  .Explain the impact of change in general market forces.
  2. Analyze the ethics issues related to managed care.
  3. Analyze the ethics issues related to changes in physician practice.
  4. Explain the ethics concerns relating to the expanding senior market.

Chapter 7:

  1. Explain why community responsibility is part of the health care business.
  2. Discuss the relationship of prevention and social responsibility.
  3. Analyze the ethics behind community accountability efforts.
  4. Explain why staff competency is part of community responsibility
  5. Present techniques for staff competency and relate them to ethics.

Chapter 8:

  1. Examine the relationship between technology and ethics.
  2. Illustrate how technology affects decision-making.
  3. Analyze the ethics issues related to HIM.
  4. Analyze the ethics issues related to changes in EHRs
  5. Explain how emerging technology changes in healthcare delivery.
  6. Analyze the health administrator’s role in emerging technology
  7. Prepare an ethics principles analysis in a selected case.

Chapter 9:

  1. Explain the differences between business and health care business
  2. Contrast the ethics issues for nonprofits with for-profit organizations.
  3. Explain how the changes in healthcare business create ethics issues.
  4. Apply the role of stewardship to prevention of fraud and abuse

Chapter 10:

  1. Analyze ethics issues for the patient experience.
  2. Describe ethics issues for professional cultures
  3. Formulate a response to selected cases.

Chapter 11:

  1. Define quality in health care.
  2. Explain the ethics of quality assurance efforts.
  3. Analyze the ethics issues related to measurement 4. Examine the attitudes of HCAs concerning quality assurance.
  4. Explain the difference between compliance and quality improvement.
  5. Evaluate selected efforts for quality improvement.
  6. Describe the role of stewardship in quality improvement.
  7. Interpret the ethics of selected cases in quality assurance.

Chapter 12:

  1. Examine the history and ethics of the patient experience.
  2. Analyze the evolution of the patient culture.
  3. Differentiate the four different patient cultures
  4. Evaluate the ethical issues associated with measuring patient satisfaction.
  5. Analyze selected ethics application in selected patient-centered care models.
  6. Analyze the HCAs role in patient-centered care
  7. Interpret the ethics issues in selected cases.

Chapter 13:

  1. Contrast public health with the traditional healthcare system.
  2. Explain public health professionals’ role in health.
  3. Assess the role of social beneficence and ethics in public health 4. Examine the ethics issues in public health practice.

Chapter 14:

  1. Define morality.
  2. Analyze expert views on maintaining morality.
  3. Examine the effects of breaking the moral compass.
  4. Assess the causes and effects of administrative evil.
  5. Evaluate HCAs’ need for a personal moral integrity.

Chapter 15:

  1. Explain the rationale for a code of ethics in health care.
  2. Describe the role of a code of ethics in healthcare organizations
  3. Evaluate the use of ethics codes
  4. Discuss the limitations of codes of ethics
  5. Assess the value of living in code.

Chapter 16:

  1. Construct ethics applications for the five management functions.
  2. Using the advice from business/healthcare writers and every day examples, prepare a plan for addressing ethics challenges.