Learn how to handle the legal and ethical challenges you will encounter in healthcare practice! Comprehensive yet easy to understand, Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, 5th Edition provides a guide to legal concepts and ethical principles and how they are applied in common healthcare scenarios. Content includes key topics such as the legal system, bioethical issues, employment laws, torts, and medical malpractice and liability, as well as current issues such as medical marijuana, the opioid crisis, gender identity, and public health and immunization policies. Questions in each chapter ask you to think critically as you relate concepts to real-world situations. Updated to meet the needs of today's workplace, this text prepares you to fulfill the moral and professional responsibilities of the healthcare provider.

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Unit I. Fundamental of Law and Ethics: 1. The US Legal System -- 2. Basis and Principles of Ethics -- 3. Bioethical Issues in Health Care -- 4. Healthcare Laws and Compliance -- 5. Torts in Health Care -- 6. Medical Malpractice and Liability -- Unit II. Applied Law and Ethics in Healthcare: 7. Healthcare Business and Operations -- 8. Workplace Issues and Employment Laws -- 9. Medical Records and HIPAA -- 10. Mandatory Reporting and Public Health -- 11. Conflict Management -- 12. Birth and Life -- 13. Death and Dying -- 14. Key Trends in Healthcare Law and Ethics -- Appendix A: Case Discussions -- Appendix B: Case Studies -- Appendix C: State Medical Record Laws -- Glossary -- Index.