2019-2020 Catalog

HCA143 Healthcare Law & Ethics

This course will present an overview of legal and ethical issues facing managers and providers in healthcare. It provides students with a foundation of health law and ethics and reviews a wide variety of health care legal and ethical situations and dilemmas. The goals are to provide students with practical knowledge of health law and ethics and their application to the real world of health care. By the end of the course, students will have been exposed to many management ideas, theories, and applications of health care law and ethical situations. Students will have a working knowledge of medical law and ethical procedures and how to apply them in the health care arena.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

BI162, BI213/BL211, or BI115 (or concurrent)