AHS 34000 Health Care Law and Ethics

This course presents an overview of legal and ethical issues facing healthcare professionals. It provides students with a foundation of health law and ethics and reviews a wide variety of healthcare legal and ethical situations. Course content includes ethical theories and principles, contemporary ethical dilemmas in healthcare, legal aspects for selected healthcare situations, inter-professional roles within ethics committees, and patients’ rights and responsibilities.  Students will discuss legal and ethical issues to explore personal values, increase sensitivity to others and develop ethical reasoning abilities.

*This course has been added as of the publication of the July 2014 catalog addendum.

Credits

3