Resident Rights

What you'll learn

Course overview

The purpose of this course is for the reader to understand that patient rights in health care has been at the forefront in the United States health care policy arena for over a decade (McClimans, Dunn, & Slowther, 2011). However, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) supports that patient-centered care is that of; respect, and responsiveness to individual patient preferences, needs and values, which is personalized care that gives patients the opportunity to exercise the degree of control they choose to have over their health care decisions (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001). When health care policy makers evoke the language of patient-rights regarding his or her care; referring to respect, and dignity, and the importance of individual values and needs, they invoke and deploy the language and concepts of ethics, and moral (McClimans, Dunn, & Slowther, 2011).