PHIL 140 - Ethics and Policy In Healthcare I

Credits: 1
LEC hours per week: 1
Explores values, ethics, and legal decision-making frameworks and policies used to support the well-being of people and groups within the context of the healthcare professions.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Nursing Program.
Corequisite(s): NURS 100 and NURS 110 or instructor permission.
Course Outcomes:

Determine the quality of published health related resources (written and electronic) available for use by healthcare providers and consumers.
Evaluate the historical infulences on our current healthcare system and healthcare professions.
Summarize a structured method for ethical decision making.
Analyze an ethical situation in healthcare using Deontological (“Duty based”) and Telelogical (“Consequence based”) moral frameworks.
Evaluate the legal concepts relevant to healthcare provider practice: standards of care, negligence and malpractice, civil and criminal action, information privacy, informed consent, advance healthcare directives.
Discuss ways in which ineffective interperosnal and interprofessional communication result in harm to healthcare consumers.

Course Topics:

Characteristics of a healthcare profession and professional code of ethics
Research and evidence-based healthcare practice
Historical influences on current healthcare systems
Moral and ethical principles
Moral framework with focus on deontology and teleology
Legal concepts in healthcare
Interdisciplinary healthcare team and communication

Course Attribute(s): Humanities