Legal Restrictions & Ethics in Healthcare
Course Info
Code IND05-130
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
Healthcare is an incredibly important sector in society and due its nature, there is an immense amount of law and regulations governing it and setting the standards of how care should be provided.
It is important for those within healthcare to understand the legal issues commonly faced, and how to best navigate the law to provide care to their patients in an ethical manner that prioritises their well-being. Alongside the physical treatment, healthcare providers must also understand the ethical side of healthcare, and how a patient’s personal views and backgrounds may influence the type of care they expect to receive. All care options should be carefully throughout and discussed with patients so they can provide their informed consent.
Healthcare providers must also understand what aspects of care they are legally obligated to report, such as potential abuse, notifiable diseases and any births and deaths within the facility.
During this course, you’ll learn:
- To understand the vitality of legal restrictions, regulations, and ethics within the healthcare sector.
- To analyse ethical and legal issues commonly faced in practice and apply policies and selected theoretical perspectives to help navigate these.
- To comprehend the government organisation, sources of law and government ethics.
- To build trust with patients, provide information in a digestible way and gain informed consent throughout their care.
- To assess the nature of confidentiality and understand how to maintain it throughout.
- To assess the different types of patients and explain how their backgrounds may influence the methods of care and communication.
This course is designed for anyone within the healthcare sector who wishes to develop their knowledge surrounding healthcare laws. It would be most beneficial for:
- Operations Managers
- Senior Executives
- Consultants and Doctors
- Senior Nurses and Nurses
- Compliance Officers
- Hospital Directors
- Heads of Departments
- Legal Personnel specialising in healthcare law.
This course uses a variety of adult learning styles to aid full understanding and comprehension. Participants will review video examples of ethical challenges faced within healthcare to identify what laws and regulations it would fall under and how you would ideally proceed in the situation.
They will partake in a variety of learning exercises and methods to aid in knowledge development, including seminars, video materials, case studies and role-playing activities. This assortment of group and individual activities guarantees that the participants will develop a full and cohesive understanding of the taught content and any relevant practical skills.
Course Content & Outline
Section 1
Government Law and Ethics
- Understanding the purpose of laws and regulations when it comes to the healthcare sector.
- Identifying what laws and regulations set the standard of care, confidentiality, and ethics within healthcare.
- Ensuring full compliance of all laws and regulations within practice.
- How governing bodies monitor compliance – Department of Health and Human Services.
Section 2
Health Ethics and Confidentiality
- Describing the principles of healthcare ethics.
- Understanding the debate of ethics and values and how this can pose challenges within healthcare.
- Setting aside personal morals and ethics and doing what needs to be done to help the patient.
- Making rational decisions aligning with medical ethics and patient morals.
- Maintaining confidentiality throughout a patient’s care – maximising safety and possible exceptions.
Section 3
Criminal Aspects of Healthcare
- Understanding non-compliance with healthcare laws may lead to criminal proceedings.
- Criminal aspects that are directly related to patient care – patient abuse, criminal negligence, manslaughter and more.
- Indications to look out for and how to report potential criminal behaviour within the healthcare sector.
- Crisis management – how to guarantee protection for patients if victimised by criminal acts within a healthcare facility.
Section 4
Patient Consent
- Defining what consent is and its necessity within the healthcare sector.
- Gaining informed consent through open communication – discussing care in a manner the patient understands.
- Assessing the validity of consent – does the patient have decision making capacity?
- Exploring who may provide consent when the patient doesn’t have capacity – power of attorney, spouse, parent, child and more.
- Understanding the right to refuse treatment and when to stop encouraging treatment.
Section 5
Legal Reporting Requirements
- Recognising signs of abuse in children, adults, and seniors – unexplained injuries, fearfulness, excessive confusion, being spoken over by another individual and more.
- Reporting potential abuse through the necessary channels and reassuring the patient they are safe during their care.
- How to report notifiable diseases and other necessary procedures.
- Reporting the births and deaths of patients.
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