Syllabus for HCM-3080
Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations
The rapidly evolving healthcare system presents the healthcare administrator with complex challenges and risks. Healthcare administrators must be able to assess external and internal healthcare policies in order to improve organizational design and delivery of healthcare services. Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations focuses on the laws and regulations developed by policymakers that impact healthcare organizations. Students review key laws that govern patient care delivery, employee relations, contracts, and fraud. Also examined are the ethical underpinnings and principles that healthcare organizations and administrators follow in the delivery of services to patients.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
CO 1 Examine the sources of healthcare law.
CO 2 Evaluate approaches to healthcare ethics.
CO 3 Assess the interrelationships and roles of various healthcare providers and organizations.
CO 4 Evaluate appropriate legal standards for use in healthcare organizations.
CO 5 Evaluate appropriate ethical standards for use in healthcare organizations.
CO 6 Analyze the relationship between ethics and law in the context of healthcare.
You will need the following materials to complete your coursework. Some course materials may be free, open source, or available from other providers. You can access free or open-source materials by clicking the links provided below or in the module details documents. To purchase course materials, please visit the University's textbook supplier.
Print ISBN-13: 978-1284172560
eBook ISBN-13: 978-1284221794
Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations is a three-credit, 12-week online course consisting of 12 modules. Activities include discussion questions, written assignments, exercises, and a final paper. Module titles are listed below.
For your formal work in the course, you are required to participate in online discussion forums, complete written assignments and exercises, and complete a final project. See below for details.
Consult the Course Calendar for due dates.
One or more of your course activities may utilize a tool designed to promote original work and evaluate your submissions for plagiarism. More information about this tool is available in this document.
You are required to participate in seventeen graded discussion forums. Discussion forums are on a variety of topics associated with the course modules. There is also one ungraded but required Introductions Forum in Module 1.
You should follow the guidelines for discussion forums below.
You are required to complete five written assignments and five exercises.
The purpose of this project is to synthesize your understanding of law and ethics and their relationship to each other. You will select a piece of legislation that directly impacts healthcare and conduct a historical and content analysis of the law, discussing the ethical basis that forms the law’s foundation. You will evaluate the impact of the legislation on a particular workplace and create recommendations for compliance that take into account the interrelationships and roles of various healthcare providers and organizations.
Be sure to decide on your topic before the end of Week 10. If you do not select from the list provided in the course documents, obtain approval from your mentor for your choice by the end of Week 10.
See the Final Project area of the course site for details.
Your grade in the course will be determined as follows:
All activities will receive a numerical grade of 0–100. You will receive a score of 0 for any work not submitted. Your final grade in the course will be a letter grade. Letter grade equivalents for numerical grades are as follows:
A | = | 93–100 | C+ | = | 78–79 | |
A– | = | 90–92 | C | = | 73–77 | |
B+ | = | 88–89 | C– | = | 70–72 | |
B | = | 83–87 | D | = | 60–69 | |
B– | = | 80–82 | F | = | Below 60 |
To receive credit for the course, you must earn a letter grade of C or better (for an area of study course) or D or better (for a course not in your area of study), based on the weighted average of all assigned course work (e.g., exams, assignments, discussion postings).
To succeed in this course, take the following first steps:
Consider the following study tips for success:
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