Health Care Ethics

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1. Enumerate the four essential characteristics of a
profession and identify and define what is Health Ethics;
Name: 2. Differentiate the sanctions associated with inappropriate
legal, ethical and professional etiquette conduct; and, 3.
_______________________________________________ Identify and describe the principles and misunderstandings
regarding the nature of law; and list and explain the steps of
__________________ Section: ____________ Schedule: a lawsuit.

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A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
Class number: _______ Date: ________________
Materials:

Pen, paper, index card, book, and class List

Lesson Title: Obligations of a Professional References:

Learning Targets: Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice Fourth
At the end of the module, students will be able to: Edition, Raymond S. Edge, J. Randall Groves

Your classroom instructor for this subject, Health Care Ethics is ________________________. Listed below are the
additional information vital in orientation:

B. MAIN LESSON

Allied Health
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Sanctions for Lapse in Ethical, Legal, and Professional
________________________________________________ Etiquette
Ethical conduct – right or wrong?
_________________ Section: ____________ Schedule: Sanction: loss of professional reputation, loss of professional
affiliations
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∙ Twentieth century: over 200 specialties added to health
care team ∙ Provides over 80% of direct patient care
∙ Combines science and technology with patient care
Essential Characteristics of a Profession
∙ Competence in specialized body of knowledge and skill
∙ Provision of particular service to society
∙ Standards of education and practice
∙ Self-regulation
Legal Practice Act
✔ Outlines activities providers perform in delivery of patient
care
✔ Develops code of ethics to assist in self-regulation
✔ Outlines profession’s mission and objectives
Specialty Practice Acts
✔ Scope of professional practice
✔ Requirements and qualifications for licensure or
certification
✔ Exemptions to basic requirements.
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✔ Grounds for administrative actions
✔ Penalties and sanctions for unauthorized practice
Legal requirements – legal or illegal?
Sanction: punishment as prescribed by law
Professional etiquette – proper or improper?
Sanction: loss of professional respect and fellowship
Professional Etiquette
• Avoid talking badly about another practitioner (especially in
front of patients) • Maintain appropriate relationships at the
worksite
• Stay within role boundaries of your specialty
• Rules of etiquette help maintain order and civility
Health Care Ethics
- Ethical questions: values, morals, individual culture,
intense personal beliefs, and faith - Ethics: how we make
judgments in regard to right and wrong
The Foundation of Law
Law
Class number: _______ Date: ________________
 ∙ Body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority; having bound legal force ∙
Minimum standard of expected performance between individuals in a society

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Name: ________________________________________

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 Fundamental Principles of Law
- Concern for justice and fairness
Common Law - Plasticity and change
Emanates from judicial decisions - Acts judged on universal standard of reasonable person
- Doctrine of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
Statutory Law
Arises from legislative bodies Misunderstandings about Nature of Law
- Law is incomplete and always growing
Administrative Law Class number: _______ Date: ________________
Flows from rules and regulations and decisions of
administrative agencies

- There are areas of law where there are no previous legal rulings; growth and change occurs -
Wise to view the law as guide to proper behavior; mistake to confuse legal and ethical behavior The
Lawsuit

Plaintiff
- Person who brings an action in a court of law
Defendant
- Person against whom an action is brought
Prima facie
- legally sufficient to establish a case

Steps in a civil lawsuit:

✔ Complaint
✔ Answer
✔ Discovery
✔ Trial and Judgment
✔ Appeal

1. Complaint
✔ Plaintiff files complaint or petition with court that addresses elements of prima facie case
✔ Plaintiff has the burden of proof
✔ Defendant has period of time in which complaint must be answered

2. Answer
✔ Defendant three choices: (1) admit, (2) deny, or (3) plead ignorance to each allegation in complaint
✔ Filing an answer moves case into pre-trial phase

3. Discovery: fact-finding phase

✔ Interrogatories
✔ Document requests
✔ Depositions
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court

Name: Philippine judicial system consists of the following

courts: Lower Courts
________________________________________________
1. Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts
_________________ Section: ____________ Schedule: 2. Metropolitan Trial Courts and Municipal Trial Courts in
Cities
________________________________________ 3. Regional Trial Courts
4. Shari'a Courts
5. Court of Tax Appeals
6. Sandiganbayan
4. Trial and Judgment 7. Court of Appeals
✔ Case tried before a judge only or before a judge and jury
✔ During the trial, each side presents witnesses and The Highest Court - Supreme Court
evidence collected is placed in record ✔ Jury’s decisions not The Supreme Court is the highest Court in the Philippines
put into effect until judge makes a judgment
Appellate court is a trier of law
5. Appeal Class number: _______ Date: ________________
✔ Losing party may appeal a trial court decision to a higher

Arbitration: neutral third party of whom both sides have agreed will have power to decide outcome and render a
binding decision.

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

You will answer and rationalize this by yourself. This will be recorded as your quiz. One (1) point will be given to correct
answer and another one (1) point for the correct ratio. Superimpositions or erasures in you answer/ratio is not allowed.

1. Which of the following is NOT considered one of the four essential characteristics of a profession?
A. Competence in a specialized body of knowledge and skill
B. The provision of a particular service to society
C. Grounds for administrative actions
D. Standards of education and practice
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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2. Specialty practice acts will vary in emphasis, but the majority will address which of the following?
A. Requirements and qualifications for licensure or certification
B. Penalties and sanctions for unauthorized practice
C. Scope of professional practice
D. All of these apply
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
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3. In regard to clients and patients, practitioners have a(n) relationship which requires them to act primarily in the best

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A. Fiduciary
B. Proper
Name: C. Formal
D. Formulaic
________________________________________________ Answer: ________
Class number: _______ Date: ________________
_________________ Section: ____________ Schedule:

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interest of those they serve.

Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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4. It is often the longest part of a lawsuit and, in many instances, ends the case when information is detrimental to one of
the sides.
A. Complaint
B. Answer
C. Discovery
D. Appeal
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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5. All but one is the fundamental principles of law?

A. Plasticity and change
B. Concern for justice and fairness
C. Acts are judge on the universal standard of the reasonable person
D. Patient’s Bill of Rights
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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6. It is one of the sources of modern law that emanates from judicial decisions.
A. Common Law
B. Administrative Law
C. Statutory law
D. All of the above
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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7. This a person who brings an action in a court law.

A. Plaintiff
B. Defendant
C. Complaint
D. Answer
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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discovery?
A. Investigation
Name: B. Interrogatory
C. Document request
________________________________________________ D. Deposition
Answer: ________
_________________ Section: ____________ Schedule: Class number: _______ Date: ________________

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8. Which of the following is NOT a major element of

Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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9. This is the opportunity for each side to question witnesses and parties to a suit to elicit information about the case?
A. Arbitration
B. Appeal
C. Trial
D. Deposition
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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10. In the foundation of law, the use of the principle of stare decisis provides the system with needed stability, and yet it
has allowed for the creation of new principles as changing patterns of facts have emerged. Stare decisis means? A.
Legally sufficient to establish a case
B. Let the decision stand
C. Let the law prevail
D. Legal case
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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C. LESSON WRAP-UP

AL Activity: CAT: 3-2-1

Instructions:
1. As an exit ticket at the end of the class period
2. Record three things you learned from the lesson.
3. Next, two things that you found interesting and that you’d like to learn more about.
4. Then, record one question you still have about the lesson.

Three things you learned:

1.
__________________________________________________________________________________
2.
__________________________________________________________________________________
3.
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Two things that you’d like to learn more about:

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Name: Class number: _______ Date: ________________

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__________________ Section: ____________ Schedule:

1. __________________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________________

One question you still have:

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