Check Your progress week 1

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Check Your progress week 1 1. "Name two important reasons for studying law and ethics. To help you function at the highest possible professional level, providing competent, compassionate health care to patients To help you avoid legal entanglements that can threaten your ability to earn a living as a successful health care practitioner 2. Which state laws apply specifically to the practice of medicine? Criminal and civil statutes state and practice acts. 3. What purpose do laws serve? To protect the public 4. How is the enforcement of laws made possible? Penalties for disobedience such as fines or even prison time, decided by a court of law or written law. 5. What factors influence the formation of one’s personal set of ethics and values? Family, culture, and society 6. Define the term moral values. Ones personal concept of right and wrong, formed through the influence of family, culture, and society 7. Explain how one’s moral values affect one’s sense of ethics ." If the moral values of the influencing factors are not good, then that could cause the person to make unethical decisions. 8. "Describe how each of the following characteristics relates to law and ethics in the health care professions: The ability to be a good communicator and listener. It’s a people skill, and it will help you get along with patients and other employees. The ability to keep information confidential . It relates to law and ethics because healthcare information is not to be shared without permission. The ability to impart information clearly and accurately . A people skill characteristic that you need to understand the information you are receiving so you won’t make an unnecessary mistake. The ability to think critically. You must be able to solve a problem quickly and effectively while still being ethical. 9. List and discuss each of the steps helpful to developing critical thinking skills. 1. Identify and clarify the problem-You have to know the exact nature of a problem. 2. Gather information- You need to ask questions and get answers surrounding the problem 3. Evaluate the evidence- Going over the answers from gathering information 4. Consider alternatives and implications- Coming up with good solutions for the issue at hand.

5. Choose and implement the best alternative- pick the best solution and put it in place. 10. Explain how you, as a health care practitioner, would use the critical thinking steps listed previously to reach a solution to the following problem: A patient from a different culture believes he has been cursed with a “liver demon” and will die unless the organ is surgically removed ." First, I would identify and clarify why the patient thinks this. Second, I will gather information from the patient and condition and ask the necessary questions. I would ask myself if the patient has a liver demon in their culture. Thirdly I would evaluate the evidence I have and come up with alternatives. Fourth I would find information on surgery and lifestyle changes for the patient and treatment options. Lastly, I would give these alternatives to the patient as a way to ease them and reassure them.

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