Chapter 3 Learning Objectives
- Explain the meaning of ethics and its importance in the practice of health care
- State the purpose of professional code of ethics
- Explain the meaning of values and how they influence personal and professional behavior
- Describe the relationship between ethics and law
- List the eight major ethical principles that apply to health care and give examples of the laws that support each
- Explain how each of the following presents ethical challenges to the health care community: euthanasia, organ transplants, and rationing of care
- Explain the importance of patient consent and the possible consequences when actions are taken with the patients consent
- Give the definitions of express and implied consent
- Describe the two major components of advance directives
- List the signs of child and elder abuse and state the actions that health care professionals should take in cases of suspected abuse
- Explain the purpose of the federal schedule of controlled substances
- Describe the importance of patient confidentiality and possible legal consequences when it is breached
- Give examples of how the health care professional applies ethics on the job
Chapter 3 Key Terms
- Adult
- Advance directive
- Agent
- Assault
- Autonomy
- Battery
- Breach of contract
- Code of ethics
- Confidentiality
- Consent
- Contract
- Damages
- Defamation of character
- Designation of health care surrogate
- Discreet
- Emancipated minor
- Ethical dilemma
- Ethics
- Euthanasia
- Express consent
- Express contract
- False imprisonment
- Fraud
- Hippocratic Oath
- HIPAA
- Implied consent
- Implied contract
- Informed consent
- Invasive procedures
- Justice
- Legislation
- Liability
- Libel
- Living will
- Malfeasance
- Malpractice
- Mercy killing
- Misfeasance
- Negligence
- Nonfeasance
- Principles protocols
- Respondeat superior
- Slander
- Tort
- Values
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