Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this home-study course, you will be able to:
- Describe the importance of patient advocacy in today’s tumultuous healthcare environment, and issues surrounding this topic.
- Describe standards of practice and standards of care as the basis for ethical practice.
- Identify key ethical terminology as it relates to patient advocacy.
- Identify nine important aspects of patients’ rights.
- Describe the central importance of patient choice in three key areas: end-of-life decisions, complementary and integrative medical therapies, and healthcare decisions in general.
- Discuss the problems of healthcare fraud and abuse of the system, and implications for ethical nursing practice.
- Identify guidelines for ethical practice, and resources for an ethical model of decision making in healthcare.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction to Ethical Nursing Practice and Patient Advocacy
Chapter Two: Patient’s Rights
Chapter Three: Patient Choice: End-of-Life Decision
Chapter Four: Patient Choice: Practical & Ethical Issues in Advance Directives
Chapter Five: Patient Choice: Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
Chapter Six: Healthcare Fraud and Ethical Practice
Chapter Seven: Guidelines for Ethical Nursing Practice
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