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.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Recognize and discuss ethical dilemmas that typically arise in health care settings.
2. Develop one's critical analytical skills resolving health care dilemmas.
3. Discuss the four pillars of ethics (beneficence, autonomy, nonmaleficence, and justice) within the context of health care in general, emphasizing addiction counseling and other forms of addiction treatment.
4. Examine situations that may lead to ethical dilemmas in health care practice.
5. Interpret privacy and confidentiality concerns, dictated by current state and federal legislation, as they relate specifically to clients seeking or receiving addiction treatment.
6. Examine the code of ethics and create practical application as it pertains to health care practice.
7. Identify one's core belief(s) in relation to an ethical health care or human service issue.
8. Apply alternative ethical perspectives to one's own, in relation to a health care or human service ethical issue.
9. Select an appropriate technology tool to present and collaborate on a current ethics controversy while demonstrating the effective use of that tool.

Course Objectives

1. Recognize and discuss ethical dilemmas that typically arise in health care settings.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Ethics Rubric

   Ethics Goals

   • ET1
2. Develop one's critical analytical skills resolving health care dilemmas.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study
3. Discuss the four pillars of ethics (beneficence, autonomy, nonmaleficence, and justice) within the context of health care in general, emphasizing addiction counseling and other forms of addiction treatment.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study
4. Examine situations that may lead to ethical dilemmas in health care practice.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study
5. Interpret privacy and confidentiality concerns, dictated by current state and federal legislation, as they relate specifically to clients seeking or receiving addiction treatment.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study
6. Examine the code of ethics and create practical application as it pertains to health care practice.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study
7. Identify one's core belief(s) in relation to an ethical health care or human service issue.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Ethics Rubric

   Ethics Goals

   • ET2
8. Apply alternative ethical perspectives to one's own, in relation to a health care or human service ethical issue.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Quiz; assignment; and/or case study

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Ethics Rubric

   Ethics Goals

   • ET3
9. Select an appropriate technology tool to present and collaborate on a current ethics controversy while demonstrating the effective use of that tool.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Peer Review

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Technological Literacy Rubric