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.
Candace works for Dr. Robert Ford, who has been in practice for 20 years. This provider has used paper medical records his entire career. Candace and her coworkers struggle to keep up with the large amount of paperwork within the clinic ...
This text prepares students to understand the legal and ethical issues inherent to working in a medical office. The text includes informative legal cases, anecdotes, and sidebars related to health-related...
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.
The text can also serve as a guide to help you resolve the many legal and ethical questions you may reasonably expect to face as a student and, later, as a health care practitioner.
With coverage of both legal and ethical issues, this text gives you the foundation to handle common health care challenges in everyday practice.
Law & Ethics for Health Professions
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 ...
As the text concludes, readers are again asked to gauge their growth, exploring their newly formed knowledge, values, and opinions on healthcare ethics.
However, this book provides guidance in the moral or ethical aspects of decision-making that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems.