HEED-125 Ethics in Professional Practice
This course will examine ethics in today's evolving healthcare environment. This course will look at the evolution of privacy and the ethical dilemmas that result from current laws,and social and cultural implications. A practitioner's approach to ethics has a direct impact on the quality of patient care and the liability of the organization for which they work. Healthcare practitioners, i.e., substance abuse counselors, psychiatric aides, gerontologists, social services workers, are expected to be knowledgeable about today's healthcare laws and ethical codes.