Law & Ethics for Health Professions

by Karen Judson, Carlene Harrison

Navigate the Legal and Ethical Issues You Face on a Daily Basis
A Doody's Core Title for 2017! Law and Ethics for Health Professions explains how to navigate the numerous legal and ethical issues that health care professionals face every day. Topics are based upon real-world scenarios and dilemmas from a variety of health care practitioners. Through the presentation of Learning Outcomes, Key Terms, From the Perspective of, Ethics Issues, Chapter Reviews, Case Studies, Internet Activities, Court Cases, and Video Vignettes, students learn about legal and ethical problems and situations that health care professions currently face. In the seventh edition, chapters 3 and 8 have been substantially revised to reflect changes in today’s health care world. Students also use critical thinking skills to learn how to resolve real-life situations and theoretical scenarios and to decide how legal and ethical issues are relevant to the health care profession in which they will practice.

Genres: Textbooks

432 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1993

About the author

Karen Judson taught biology laboratories at Black Hills University in Spearfish, SD., high school sciences in Idaho, and grades one and three in Washington state. She is also a former laboratory and x-ray technician and completed two years of nurses' training while completing a degree in Biology.

Karen has worked as a science writer since 1983. She has written relationship, family, and psychology articles for a variety of magazines, including a series of high school classroom magazines, making a total of 500 articles published. Karen writes science and relationship books for teenagers. (Enslow and Marshall Cavendish publishers.)

Her book for teens, Sports & Money: It's a Sell Out, made the New York City Public Library's list of best books for teens in 1995. Another book for teens, Genetic Engineering, was chosen by the National Science Teachers' Association as one of the best science books for children in 2001 and was featured on the NSTA website.

Reviews

[Ashley]

Helpful to a point and I passed the class that required this textbook. Not what I was expecting considering it had a lot of stuff in there that wasn't related to law and ethics at all.

[Eric]

There were a few concepts that I found interesting, but as the book as a whole it was quite borning and basic.

[Jaime]

Had to read this textbook for school, learned a lot of new information I didn't know before.

[Joshua]

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