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Ethics: Health Care And Social Responsibility –
hcs435
(3 credits)
This course identifies ethical issues in health care. It is designed to encourage students to clarify their personal ethic with regard to health care issues. The various responsibilities involving the management of populations whose ethics may be divergent are identified.
This undergraduate-level course is 5
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Application of Ethics within Individual Organizations
- Describe the elements of an organization's culture and their influence on ethical decisions.
- Identify values and principles that health care organizations utilize in developing their mission statements and philosophies.
- Analyze the role of an ethical code and the importance of the enforcement process.
- Apply ethical theories and principles to health care situations.
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Ethical Theories, Principles, and Concepts
- Identify problem-solving methodology components.
- Identify and describe major ethical theories and principles.
- Differentiate the distinction between legal and ethical issues.
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Emerging Ethical Issues
- Analyze emerging future ethical issues brought about by the rapidly changing health care environment.
- Integrate ethical theories and principles into a health care setting.
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Biomedical Ethical Issues
- Examine some current biomedical ethical issues.
- Analyze the history of biomedical ethical issues and the impact on the current health care environment.
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Administrative Ethical Issues
- Describe management's responsibilities when dealing with administrative ethical issues.
- Identify the roles of institutional compliance and ethics committees and review boards.
- Analyze the history of administrative ethical issues and their impact on the current health care environment.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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