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Learning Objectives
Describe the history of ethics, specifically as it relates to the physician-patient relationship.
Identify the historical events, including three human experimentation studies, that brought about measures to ensure patient rights.
Discuss the Karen Ann Quinlan case as it injfluenced national and state healthcare policies.
Review the impact of the Nancy Cruzan case on healthcare delivery and policy.
State the purpose of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) of 1990 and the role of healthcare professionals.
Differentiate between the types of advance directives.
Discuss national ethical standards frameworks and their relationship to ethical decision making for patients.
Define terminology regarding bioethics, including the seven principles guiding medical ethical decision making.
Compare the five ethical theories as they relate to healthcare.
Review the basics of forming an analytical ethical framework.