MGT 6440 Healthcare Law and Ethics

2 Hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in the Healthcare Management MBA Program.

This course covers selected legal principles and their application to the health field: Legal aspects of corporate liability, medical malpractice, admission and discharge processes, medical staff bylaws, informed consent, nursing, patient’s rights, medical records, and governmental regulation of personnel and health facilities. The course also provides health care managers with guidance in preventing and dealing with managerial and biomedical ethical problems, suggests substantive ethical principles and procedural methodologies by which managers can understand, analyze, and resolve ethical problems, encourages and aids managers to develop a personal ethic to guide their practice, and suggests ways to build ethically responsible healthcare organizations.