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• Cases and Questions allow you to apply key legal and ethical principles to a rehabilitation practice situation. • Special Key Term boxes introduce and define important vocabulary to ensure your understanding of chapter content. • Additional resource lists in each chapter include helpful sources for articles, books, and websites to further your learning. • Case Examples let you put new ideas and concepts into practice by applying your knowledge to the example. • Legal Foundations and Ethical Foundations chapters introduce the basic concepts of law, legal history, the court system, and ethics in the professional setting to provide a solid base for legal and ethical knowledge. • An entire chapter devoted to healthcare malpractice provides vital information on practice problems that have legal implications, the claim process, and claim prevention. • An extended discussion of the Americans with Disabilities Act informs you of your rights as an employee as well as the challenges faced in the workforce by your rehabilitation patients. • Content on employment legal issues includes essential information for both employees and employers on patient interaction and the patient’s status in the workplace. • Coverage of end-of-life issues and their legal and ethical implications provides important information for helping patients through end-of-life decisions and care.

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Legal, Ethical, And Practical Aspects Of Patient Care Documentation: A Guide For Rehabilitation Professionals (Legal Aspects of Documenting Patient Care for Rehabilitation Professionals)

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Legal, Ethical, and Practical Aspects of Patient Care Documentation: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals, Fourth Edition, is the only text to integrate coverage of the legal responsibilities of rehabilitation professionals with basic, essential advice on how to effectively document patient care activities – from intake through discharge. This resource thoroughly covers the basics of documentation and includes many exemplars, cases, and forms, as well as a sample abbreviations used in rehabilitation settings. Legal, Ethical, and Practical Aspects of Patient Care Documentation, Fourth Edition covers all the bases – from ethics, to practical aspects of patient care documentation, to relevant and salient legal implications and illustrative case examples that will help students excel in practice. Even after graduation, this text is perfect for ready reference in the clinic!FEATURES All updated materials and references A chapter on patient informed consent documentation issues Focus on electronic medical records (EMRs) The patient care record, as a legal document, used in legal proceedings Exemplars showing purposes, methods, and techniques of patient care documentation Case examples in the ethical aspects of patient care documentation Documentation formats Documentation activities 25 documentation errors and suggestions Background information on the litigation environment written by a health law attorney Focus on Ethics vignettes Extensive reference lists Universal coverage of health disciplines

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Promoting Legal Awareness in Physical and Occupational Therapy, 1e

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A reader friendly format enforces key legal concepts helps occupational and physical therapy students integrate those concepts into clinically relevant examples. Legal topics discussed include informed consent, contracts, malpractice, and insurance. Rehearsal scenarios help the reader to practice testifying as an expert witness. Glossary relates health care law and ethics cases and questions, risk management hints in plain English, not legalese. Comprehensive annotated bibliographies are included.

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Professional Ethics: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals by Ronald W. Scott PT JD EdD LLM MSBA (1998-03-12)

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Legal Aspects Of Documenting Patient Care For Rehabilitation Professionals

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Because communication among healthcare professionals can mean the difference between patient life and death, clear and effective patient care documentation is as important as the delivery of care itself. The rehabilitation professional faces formidable documentation responsibilities. Patient care documentation created by the rehabilitation professional must be accurate, comprehensive, concise, objective, timely, and expeditiously communicated to other professionals on the health care team. Legal Aspects of Documenting Patient Care for Rehabilitation Professionals, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of legal issues related to everyday patient care clinical documentation. This text presents extensive coverage of the electronic medical record, the HIPAA Privacy Rule and incident reporting, among other focused topics.

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Legal Aspects Of Documenting Patient Care by Ron W. Scott (2000-01-15)

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Professional Ethics: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals, 1e

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The reader friendly format of this text includes questions and exercises in every chapter, allowing readers to test their knowledge and apply important concepts. An abundance of clinically relevant case examples, including many real cases on public record, teach readers about ethics at work. Each chapter begins with a summary section, plus key terms. Boxes titled "Ethics in Focus" are scattered throughout the text. Also, several flowcharts and forms can be photocopied for readers' use. Each chapter ends with a comprehensive annotated bibliography and a section of cases. An appendix at the back of the book contains codes of ethics for many rehabilitation professionals, including physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, prosthetists, orthotists, speech-language pathologists, chiropractors, and rehabilitation nurses. * Provides PTs and OTs with the information they need to make ethical decisions in their day-to-day practice. * Applicable to many rehabilitation professionals and works well in transdisciplinary classes, which are becoming more prevalent in colleges today. * Text shows how to apply ethics, making it a practical and relevant book for rehab students and professionals. * Case studies show how to apply theory to everyday practice. * Discussion of patient responsibility and mutual decision-making anticipates and helps to prevent possible problems and misunderstandings. * Includes an appendix at the back of the book with codes of ethics for several rehabilitation professions. * Current information on interpersonal relations and sexual harassment and misconduct, which every health care professional must be aware of. * Overview of the ethics of patient informed consent with a managed care focus. * In-depth discussion of managed care versus managed health. * Highly respected author brings wealth of expertise as an attorney, physical therapist, academician, chairperson of the American Physical Therapy Association Judicial Committee, and a renowned legal speaker in allied health circles. * Prepares rehab professionals to deal with difficult issues, such as withdrawing and withholding care, mental competency, and death and dying, including the right to die. * Simple and flexible systems approach to the determination and resolution of ethical issues and dilemmas.

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Health Care Malpractice

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Promoting Legal and Ethical Awareness: A Primer for Health Professionals and Patients, 1e

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Combining the best of author Ron Scott’s books, Promoting Legal Awareness in Physical and Occupational Therapy and Professional Ethics: A Guide for Rehabilitation Professionals, his newest text Promoting Legal and Ethical Awareness: A Primer for Health Professionals and Patients includes the latest case, regulatory, and statutory law. This valuable ethical and legal resource also includes an alphabetized section on HIPAA, current information on the reauthorized IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act), and expanded coverage of alternative dispute resolution and attorney-health professional-client relations. • Cases and Questions allow you to apply key legal and ethical principles to a rehabilitation practice situation. • Special Key Term boxes introduce and define important vocabulary to ensure your understanding of chapter content. • Additional resource lists in each chapter include helpful sources for articles, books, and websites to further your learning. • Case Examples let you put new ideas and concepts into practice by applying your knowledge to the example. • Legal Foundations and Ethical Foundations chapters introduce the basic concepts of law, legal history, the court system, and ethics in the professional setting to provide a solid base for legal and ethical knowledge. • An entire chapter devoted to healthcare malpractice provides vital information on practice problems that have legal implications, the claim process, and claim prevention. • An extended discussion of the Americans with Disabilities Act informs you of your rights as an employee as well as the challenges faced in the workforce by your rehabilitation patients. • Content on employment legal issues includes essential information for both employees and employers on patient interaction and the patient’s status in the workplace. • Coverage of end-of-life issues and their legal and ethical implications provides important information for helping patients through end-of-life decisions and care.

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Legal Aspects of Documenting Patient Care by Ronald W. Scott (1994-01-30)

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Health Care Malpractice: A Primer on Legal Issues for Professionals

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In health care, legal and ethical issues abound, and never more so in this age of managed care. Now broadened in scope to cover all allied health care professions, this practical guide provides concise, readable information relevant to the ethical issues and decisions a health care provider must deal with on a daily basis. This totally revised and expanded edition features new chapters covering the unique constructs of managed care and how it adds a whole new dimension to malpractice liability, a chapter tracing a complete malpractice action from initial incident to finding of liability, and much more. Lastly, the addition of two case studies at the end of each chapter (one real, one hypothetical) help highlight salient academic points and apply them to real world situations.

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Promoting Legal and Ethical Awareness (text only) 1st (First) edition by R. W. Scott PT JD EdD LLM MSBA

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Promoting Legal and Ethical Awareness: A Primer for Health Professionals and Patients Paperback Ronald W. Scott PT JD EdD LLM MSBA (Author)

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