HFIN 230 - Health Care Values and Ethics

Credits: 3

Description
The course will examine the foundations of ethics as it applies to ethical decision-making by leaders in healthcare administration. You will learn to draw on ethical principles and virtues, moral theorists, caring, and empathy to make complex ethical decisions.

“Learning Outcomes”

Describe how the ethical principles/virtues of autonomy, justice, trust, caring beneficence, and non-maleficence apply to the delivery of health care
Recognize the importance of and bring to bear ethical principles, virtues, values, and theory in professional discourse
Use a foundation in moral philosophy to make and support ethical decisions as a health care leader
Apply an ethical decision-making process to various contemporary and complex health care issues