Ethical and Legal Considerations of Healthcare

Catalog description

Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Health Administration program. Typically Offered: FALL Students in this course examine the role of health care policy and legal, regulatory, and quality control in ethical decision making in healthcare. Students explore concepts and principles of health care policy, legal control, ethical conduct, and regulatory environments and their application to the health care environment. The impact of health care policy and multicultural, socioeconomic, political, legal, and regulatory factors on health care systems is explored.