Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals
ISBN-10
1284036790
ISBN-13
9781284036794
Series
Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals
Category
Law
Pages
530
Language
English
Published
2014-12-01
Publisher
Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Author
George D. Pozgar

Description

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Fourth 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.Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Fourth Edition provides the reader with a clear understanding of the law and ethics as they relate to health care dilemmas and the proper foundation to make good decisions in the delivery of patient care. The practical application of ethics in the health care setting is accomplished by interspersing the thoughts of great minds through Quotes and the real world of News Clippings, patient experiences through Cases, provider and organizational experiences through Reality Checks. The text concludes with a Summary Case that ties together the information gathered throughout the text. Each chapter includes learning objectives, key terminology, a chapter review, and review questions to assess comprehension.New to the Fourth EditionCovers recent cases in the news impacting healthcare ethicsExplores new developments in the American Counseling Association code of ethicsReviews the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare Includes an updated art program

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