PHIL 446 - Ethics and the Healthcare Manager

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Examine the role of ethics and social responsibility in the healthcare environment. Theoretical concepts in healthcare ethics will be applied to real-world situations based on challenges managers face. Emphasis on personal outlooks, contemporary trends, and responsibilities with respect to ethical, legal, economic, regulatory conditions, and the needs of stakeholders in healthcare. Case studies/simulations will be used to explore real-world ethical and social responsibility dilemmas.

Prerequisite: BASM Dept. Chair permission.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Deconstruct ethical theory by examining frameworks to navigate individual and organizational ethical challenges in healthcare fields.
Define personal ethical outlooks and approaches to ethical dilemmas in healthcare fields using the intersection of ethical theory and auto-ethnographies.
Assess the influence of forces such as implicit and explicit bias, resource/profit maximization, and social justice on ethical choices in healthcare fields by researching the drivers of managerial decisions.
Investigate the legal and ethical implications of contemporary healthcare workplace public policy issues (for example, disease management, artificial intelligence), by analyzing their evolution and their impact on individual and organizational behavior.

Course Contents

Frameworks to navigate individual and organizational ethical challenges in healthcare fields by deconstructing ethical theory.
Ethical theory by examining frameworks to navigate individual and organizational ethical challenges.
Influence of forces such as implicit and explicit bias, resource/profit maximization, and social justice on ethical choices in healthcare fields by researching the drivers of managerial decisions in case studies.
Legal and ethical implications of contemporary healthcare workplace public policy issues (for example, disease management, artificial intelligence) by analyzing their evolution and their impact on individual and organizational behavior.

Instructional Units: 5