HM 580 - Ethical Dilemmas In Health Care

Course overview

This CE course is designed for but not limited to students who want to RE-Certify their Healthcare Ethics Certification with AIHCP. It focuses on the major components of Ethics and Management Dilemmas in Healthcare as applied to Healthcare Administration. This course will provide a deeper dive for those Healthcare professionals who want to enhance their balance of ethics of service to patients with sound business decisions. The Healthcare Manager's ethical responsibilities and their business case for ethics management is a focus of this text. Potential students may include hospital administrators, nurse managers, working supervisors, assistant managers, department managers, Hospice employees and those healthcare professionals who are members of or work with their organizations Ethics decision makers. In addition, Nurses and Consultants practicing in the Legal field and Cases Managers can benefit from this course as well. All are welcome to complete this course for education credits. We recognize that managers need a sound understanding of Ethics in Healthcare Administration and how it affects their working environment. Our goal is to build upon your ethics 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. We will review many of the typical challenges and complexities that healthcare professionals face, such as medical errors, physician impairment, coworker conflicts, gender discrimination and staff shortages. Much of your learning will involve reviewing actual cases. Seldom do ethical dilemmas in healthcare involve a single issue. The type of issues we will be reviewing are complex and interrelated with multiple variables which makes your study of them that much more interesting. Our goal is to create an awareness about doing the right thing the right way. Study how and why decisions are made that are both fiscally sound and ethically based. New ethical challenges have been created by healthcare's dynamic environment. In case you were wondering, the answer is Yes - the Pandemic makes and appearance in our text! Our text is filled with interesting case studies that demonstrate how the morally sound business 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. You will review the importance of establishing written policies and infrastructure the establishing of an ethical culture that integrates ethical decision making into the right way of doing business. 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.