Chapter 1 Introduction to Law and Ethics
1.1 Why Study Law and Ethics?
1.2 Comparing Aspects of Law and Ethics
1.3 Qualities of Successful Health Care Practitioners
Chapter Review
Chapter 2 Making Ethical Decisions
2.1 Value Development Theories
2.2 Value Choices Theories
2.3 Principles of Health Care Ethics
Chapter Review
Chapter 3 Working in Health Care
3.1 Licensure, Certification, Registration, and Scope of Practice
3.2 Accreditation
3.3 Practice Acts and Professional Boards
3.4 Business Aspects of Health Care
3.5 Managed Care Organizations
Chapter Review
Chapter 4 Law, the Courts, and Contracts
4.1 The Basis of and Primary Sources of Law
4.2 Classifications of Law
4.3 Tort Liability
4.4 Contracts
4.5 Physicians’ and Patients’ Rights and Responsibilities
Chapter Review
Chapter 5 Professional Liability
5.1 Liability
5.2 Standard of Care and Duty of Care
5.3 The Tort of Negligence
5.4 Elements of a Lawsuit
5.5 Alternative Dispute Resolution
5.6 Informed Consent
Chapter Review
Chapter 6 Defenses to Liability Suits
6.1 Preventing Liability Suits
6.2 Types of Defenses
6.3 Risk Management
6.4 Professional Liability Insurance
Chapter Review
Chapter 7 Medical Records and Health Information Technology
7.1 Medical Records
7.2 Medical Records Ownership, Retention, Storage, and Destruction
7.3 Records Release
7.4 Health Information Technology (HIT)
7.5 Social Media
7.6 Telemedicine
Chapter Review
Chapter 8 Privacy, Security, and Fraud
8.1 The U.S. Constitution and Federal Privacy Laws
8.2 Privacy and Confidentiality
8.3 HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules
8.4 Controlling Health Care Fraud and Abuse
Chapter Review
Chapter 9 Public Health Responsibilities of Health Care Practitioners
9.1 Vital Statistics
9.2 Public Health Functions
9.3 Reportable Diseases and Injuries
9.4 Drug Regulations
Chapter Review
Chapter 10 Workplace Legalities
10.1 Basic Employment Law
10.2 OSHA’s Workplace Priorities
10.3 OSHA, CDC, and CLIA Guidelines and Regulations
10.4 Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Insurance
10.5 Hiring and the New Employee
Chapter Review
Chapter 11 The Beginning of Life and Childhood
11.1 Family History as a Predictor
11.2 DNA Testing
11.3 Genetic Engineering
11.4 Conception and the Beginning of Life
11.5 Rights of Children
Chapter Review
Chapter 12 Death and Dying
12.1 Attitudes toward Death and the Determination of Death
12.2 Legal Documents for Terminally Ill Patients
12.3 Health Care Services for Terminally Ill Patients
12.4 The Right to Die Movement
12.5 The National Organ Transplant Act
12.6 The Grieving Process
Chapter Review
Chapter 13 Stakeholders, Costs, and Patients' Rights
13.1 The Stakeholders
13.2 Cost of Health Care
13.3 Access and Quality
13.4 Paying for Health Care
13.5 Patients’ Bill of Rights
Chapter Review
Karen Judson, BS
Karen Judson taught biology laboratories at Black Hills University
in Spearfish, South
Dakota; high school sciences in Idaho; and grades one and three in
Washington state. She is
also a former laboratory and X-ray technician and completed two
years of nurses training
while completing a degree in biology.
Judson has worked as a science writer since 1983. She has written
relationship, family, and
psychology articles for a variety of magazines, including a series
of high school classroom
magazines, making a total of 500 articles published. Judson writes
science and relationship
books for teenagers (Enslow and Marshall Cavendish publishers). Her
book for teens, Sports &
Money: Its a Sell Out, made the New York City Public Librarys list
of best books for teens in
1995. Her book for teens, Genetic Engineering, was chosen by the
National Science Teachers
Association as one of the best science books for children in 2001
and was featured on the
NSTA Web site.
Carlene Harrison, EdD, CMA (AAMA)
Carlene Harrison is Dean of the School of Allied Health at Hodges
University and is also
Program Director for the Master of Health Services Administration
and Graduate Certificate
in Health Informatics. She has been a member of the faculty at
Hodges University since 1992,
but came on board full time in 2000, serving first as Chair of the
Medical Assisting Program.
As Dean of the School of Allied Health, she has overall
responsibility for the following
degree programs: Health Services Administration, Biomedical
Sciences, Medical Assisting,
Health Information Management, and Physical Therapist Assistant.
Her doctorate is from
Argosy University. Her dissertation research looked at improvement
in critical thinking in
adult learners.
Before becoming a full-time educator, Dr. Harrison worked for over
20 years in the health
care field as an administrator. Employed mostly in the outpatient
setting, she has worked in
the for-profit, not-for-profit, and public health sectors.
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