Health Ethics

Theme 2:

Discuss with your colleagues the following questions: What is “Legality”? What are “Ethics”? Compare and contrast legality and ethics in health care. Provide one (1) specific real life legal case example of a violation of legality in a healthcare organization and one (1) specific real life legal case example of a violation of ethics in a healthcare organization that you find on the internet or in the print media. See Discussion Expectations and Grading for rules on discussions. Read background articles. This discussion requires additional research beyond reading the articles.

Assigned reading materials:

Understanding Federal Courts – (Control>>Click>>From Drop down Menu select Open in New Window or Copy/Paste into your URL) http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure
Introduction to the U.S. Legal System- http://litigation.findlaw.com/legal-system/introduction-to-the-u-s-legal-system.html
Legal issues facing health care professionals-http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/13-legal-issues-for-hospitals-and-health-systems.html
Ethical and legal analysis of health care case-http://ijahsp.nova.edu/articles/Vol2num1/pdf/lazaro.pdf
This educational resource is designed to help health care organization directors ask knowledgeable and appropriate questions related to health care corporate compliance.http://www.hcca-info.org/Portals/0/PDFs/Resources/Conference_Handouts/Clinical_Practice_Compliance_Conference/2007/Fri/601Handout.pdf
Health Care Ethics – samples.jbpub.com/9781449665357/Chapter2.pdf
Example of an Employee Handbook from Johns Hopkins: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/human_resources/_docs/employee_handbook_non-union_non-represented.pdf