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Learning  Objectives

 Upon completion of this home-study course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the importance of patient advocacy in today’s tumultuous healthcare environment, and issues surrounding this topic.

2. Describe standards of practice and standards of care as the basis for ethical practice.

3. Identify key ethical terminology as it relates to patient advocacy.

4. Identify nine important aspects of patients’ rights.

5. Describe the central importance of patient choice in three key areas: end-of-life decisions, complementary and integrative medical therapies, and healthcare decisions in general.

6. Discuss the problems of healthcare fraud and abuse of the system, and implications for ethical nursing practice.

7. Identify guidelines for ethical practice, and resources for an ethical model of decision making in healthcare.

Table Of Contents

 Chapter One: Introduction to Ethical Nursing Practice and Patient Advocacy

Chapter Two: Patient’s Rights    

Chapter Three: Patient Choice: End-of-Life Decision

Chapter Four: Patient Choice: Practical & Ethical Issues in Advance Directives   

Chapter Five: Patient Choice: Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies 

Chapter Six: Healthcare Fraud and Ethical Practice         

Chapter Seven: Guidelines for Ethical Nursing Practice

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