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Ethics for Professionals - Chiropractic Assistant


Ethics for Professionals 105

Informed Consent


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  • Describe three basic legal concepts that led to the doctrine of informed consent.
  • Describe three approaches to determining the disclosure standard for judging that a patient or client has been informed.
  • Discuss three major aspects of the process of obtaining informed consent.
  • Distinguish "general consent" from "special consent" documents.
  • Differentiate between the never-competent and once-competent patient or client and the challenges posed by each in regard to informed consent.
  • Compare informed consent as it is used in health care practice and in human studies research.
  • Describe some considerations one must always take into account to be sure one is being culturally competent and honoring cultural difference when informed consent is the standard.

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Paul Powers, DC, DABCN

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Ethics for Professionals 104

Ethics of Confidential Information


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  • Define the terms confidential information and confidentiality.
  • Identify the relationship of a patient's legal right to privacy with his reasonable expectations regarding confidential information.
  • Describe how the telling and keeping of secrets is relevant to understanding the importance of confidentiality.
  • Discuss the ethical norms involved in keeping and breaking professional confidences.
  • Name five general legal exceptions to the professional standard of practice that confidences should not be broken.
  • Consider practical options that a professional can take when faced with the possibility of breaking a confidence.
  • Discuss some important aspects of documentation that affect confidentiality.
  • Compare ethical issues of confidentiality traditionally conceived with those that have arisen because of computerized medical records and patient care information systems.
  • Describe the key ethical strengths and challenges of the recent U.S. federal regulations related to privacy considerations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996).
  • Become familiar with AOTA and APTA Code of Ethics
  • Review and become familiar with the TX PT Rules
  • Read case scenarios illustrating ethical decision making

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Paul Powers, DC, DABCN

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Ethics for Professionals 103

The Analysis of Ethical Problems in Professional Life


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  • Identify six steps in the analysis of ethical problems encountered in everyday professional life and how each plays a part in arriving at a caring response.
  • Describe the central role of narrative and virtue theories in gathering relevant information for a caring response.
  • List four areas of inquiry that will be useful when gathering relevant information to make sure you have the story straight.
  • Describe the role of conduct-related ethical theories and approaches in arriving at a caring response.
  • Describe why imagination is an essential aspect of seeking out the practical alternatives in an ethically challenging situation.
  • Discuss how courage assists you in a caring response.
  • Identify two benefits of taking time to reflect on and evaluate the action afterward.
  • Become familiar with AOTA and APTA Code of Ethics
  • Become familiar with the Guide to Professional Conduct for PT's

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Paul Powers, DC, DABCN

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Ethics for Professionals 102

Ethical Problems, Ethical Distress and Ethical Dilemma's


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  • Identify the goal of professional ethics activity.
  • Describe the basic idea of a caring response and some ways this response in a professional relationship is distinguished from expressions of care in other types of relationships.
  • Identify three component parts of any ethical problem.
  • Describe what an agent is and, more importantly, what it is to be a moral agent.
  • Name the three prototypical ethical problems.
  • Describe the role of emotions in ethical distress.
  • Distinguish between two varieties of ethical distress.
  • Compare the fundamental difference between ethical distress and an ethical dilemma.
  • Define ethical paternalism or parentalism.
  • Describe a type of ethical dilemma that challenges a professionals desire (and duty) to treat everyone fairly and equitably.
  • Identify the fundamental difference between distress or dilemma problems and locus of authority problems.
  • Identify four criteria that will assist you in deciding who should assume authority for a specific ethical decision to achieve a caring response.
  • Become familiar with AOTA and APTA Code of Ethics
  • Become familiar with the Guide to Professional Conduct for PT
  • Indiana PTs - become familiar with the IN PT Rules and Practice Act
  • Texas PTs - become familiar with the TX PT Rules and Practice Act
  • Utah PTs - become familiar with the UT PT Rules and Practice Act

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Paul Powers, DC, DABCN

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Ethics for Professionals 101

Morality and Ethics in Professional Practice


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  • Define morality and ethics and distinguish between the two
  • Describe three moralities that health professionals must integrate into their own moral life
  • Identify some major sources of moral beliefs in Western societies
  • Distinguish between an ethical issue and ethical problem
  • List three ways that ethics is useful in everyday professional practice
  • Describe what material cooperation entails
  • Identify some mechanisms available to protect the personal moral convictions of health professionals

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Paul Powers, DC, DABCN

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Ethics 106
Dealing with the Inappropriate Patient Ethically and Effectively

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  • Identify challenging/inappropriate patient requests and behaviors encountered by chiropractors.
  • Explain prevention strategies, office procedures and effective responses to inappropriate patient activity.
  • Describe safety concerns associated with a patient's inappropriate acts and communications, as well as ethical principles related thereto.
  • Illustrate legal and ethical issues arising where the doctor/patient relationship is terminated due to inappropriate patient behavior.
  • Analyze how aberrant patient behavior presents risks to staff, the treating doctor, and to fellow patients, and how proper documentation is important in such instances.

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

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Ethics 105
Ethics of Patient Encouragement - The Placebo Effect

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  • Identify legal prohibitions against promising healthcare cures, guaranteeing treatment results, and deceptive patient communication.
  • Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate communication relating to patients' healthcare prognoses and progress.
  • Explain scientific literature linking patients' mental states with healthcare outcomes.
  • Demonstrate alignment between compliance with states' current patient communication restrictions and instances of patient encouragement that foster mental states favorable to desired healthcare outcomes.
  • Explain office procedures and staff training which are likely to ensure ongoing ethical patient communication and the documentation thereof.

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

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Ethics 104
Professional Boundaries and Ethics for the Business

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  • Recognize the legal and ethical implications of billing, collections, fees, bartering, and financial gain
  • Navigate the tricky waters of appropriate interaction with vendors/suppliers.
  • Understand the fiduciary relationship that governs patient-doctor interactions.
  • Grade your role as the chiropractor in all professional inter-relationships, including staff, patients, peers.
  • Use self-assessment techniques to stay compliant in all areas of ethics and boundaries.

Kathy Mills Chang, MCS-P, CCPC

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Ethics 103
Avoiding Inappropriate Contact with Patients

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  • Differentiate between assault and battery
  • Outline various kinds of legal problems that may result from sexual impropriety claims
  • Identify and describe distinctions between innocent flirtatious behavior and sexual misconduct
  • Evaluate possible defenses to sexual misconduct Disciplinary complaints
  • Discuss the applicability of the transference phenomenon to Doctors of Chiropractic

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

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Ethics 101

Ethical Communications


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  • Demonstrate the importance of communicating in an ethical manner and what that entails
  • Develop an understanding of what 'spin' is, why it is unethical and how to monitor and minimize/stop it
  • Evaluate the barriers to effective and ethical communication
  • Develop an understanding of exactly what takes place/needs to take place during the provider/client interaction
  • Discover what it is that patients want from their visits to a provider
  • Appraise how to deal with challenging clients and situations
  • Discover how to become a skilled helper by studying the tools of communication
  • Apply listening skills to the provider's repertoire
  • Demonstrate the importance of the impact of nonverbal communication on the caregiver/client relationship
  • Develop, analyze and apply the verbal and nonverbal skills that will help to gather information and support the patient effectively
  • Write an Ethical Communication Protocol (EPC) for your practice

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Angelica Redleaf, DC

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