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Law & Ethics
for Health Professions
NINTH Edition
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LAW & ETHICS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS
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About the Authors
Karen Judson, BS
Karen Judsonhas taught college and high school sciences and grades kindergarten, one, andthree. Judson has also worked as alaboratory and X-ray technician and completed 2 years of nursing while earninga degree in biology. Judson has alsopublished numerous science and relationship articles and books for adult andyoung adult readers.
Carlene Harrison, EdD, CMA (AAMA)
Carlene Harrison was an administrator in a variety of outpatient health carefacilities for 20 years in Colorado, Texas, and Florida. She became a full-timefaculty member at Hodges University in 2000 serving first as a professor and program chair in both medical assisting and healthadministration. In 2007, she was named Deanof the School of Allied Health. During her 15 years at Hodges, she was responsible for adding six academic programs to theSchool of Allied Health, retiring in 2015. Even though she is retired from full-time academia, she continues to work part time at a local public health department, coordinating with universities and colleges to provide a variety of internships and clinicals for students in the fields of public health, nursing, medicine, health information technology, dietetics, and social work.
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Preface
Law and Ethics: For HealthProfessions explains how to navigate thenumerous legal and ethical issues that health care professionals face everyday. Topics are based upon real-world scenarios and dilemmas from a variety ofhealth care practitioners. Through the presentation of Learning Outcomes, KeyTerms, From the Perspective of..., Ethics Issues, Chapter Reviews, Case Studies,Internet Activities, Court Cases, and Videos, students learn about currentlegal and ethical problems and situations. In the ninth edition, material has been revised toreflect the current health care environment. As students progress through thetext, they will get the opportunity to use critical thinking skills to learnhow to resolve real-life situations and theoretical scenarios and to decide howlegal and ethical issues are relevant to the health care profession in whichthey will practice.
New to the Ninth Edition
A number of updates have been made in the ninth edition to enrich the users experience with the product, including revisions to most of the From the Perspective Of features in each chapter:
, Professional Liability, now includes the books coverage of informed consent.
, Medical Records and Health Information Technology, provides more information about electronic health records and updated information about social media applications in health care.
, Workplace Legalities, contains the updated OSHA priorities.
, The Beginning of Life and Childhood, includes updated information about genetic testing.
, Stakeholders, Costs, and Patients Rights, discusses the changing face of health care from a business perspective and includes a review of the basic types of insurance coverage. It also contains a discussion of patients rights.
All statistics and court cases have been updated, as well as content relevant to laws passed since the eighth edition.
Connect has been updated to reflect updates in the chapters and feedback from customers. It contains all Check Your Progress questions, all end-ofchapter questions, additional Case Studies with related questions, and simple interactives.
MHE Application-Based Activities are highly interactive, automatically graded online exercises that provide students a safe space to practice using problem-solving skills to apply their knowledge to realistic scenarios. Each scenario addresses key concepts and skills that students must use to work through and solve course specific problems, resulting in improved critical thinking and relevant workplace skills.