HM 575 - Health Care Ethics: Process & Applications

Course overview

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.