Introduction
Welcome
to the Home Study Course sponsored by the Health Care Training Institute. The
purpose of this course is to stimulate your thinking about ethics and confidentiality.
The institute has provided quality education since 1979 to thousands nationally
and in Canada as well. My name is Tracy Catherine Appleton. We appreciate the fact
that you have chosen us as a vehicle to earn your Continuing Education Credit.
The purpose of our audio home study courses is to provide a convenient format,
flexible to your schedule.
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co-contributor to this Course is Sharon Chandler; Sharon is a Marriage and Family
Therapist, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, as well as a Registered Nurse.
Let's
review the course materials. As you will note your Course Content Manual contains
a set of articles dealing with privacy and confidentiality. Each article is followed
by a fill-in-the-blank question. Answers to chose from are found in the Test.
This
tape also contains information regarding ethical issues concerning privacy and
confidentiality. Each informational module will be followed by a multiple-choice,
case study question. The main purpose for these multiple-choice case study questions
is to get you to think about some of the gray ethical areas of privacy and confidentiality.
You
will be presented with a brief situation and then with four choices, followed
by a musical tone requesting you to turn the tape player off and think about the
best answer. Please note I say the best answer rather than the correct answer.
Because of the brevity of some of the questions, you need to assume or fill in
certain facts. Therefore, after the musical tone the correct answer is given along
with an explanation as to why it is correct. Thus, a form of programmed learning
is provided with you making a response and getting instant feed back. The Test contains a section for circling the letter of the correct answer.
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key to remember... here is the purpose behind the questions. Whether in the Manual
or on this tape, they are not intended to trick you or to be difficult. Their
purpose is to stimulate your thinking about confidentiality and privacy issues
and to verify the fact that you have read the brief articles and played this tape.
So on the tape listen to the four choices, then decide upon your choice, mark
the correct answer given on the tape to verify your listening.
As an optional
exercise.... feel free to staple an added sheet of paper to the back of the Test with your ideas regarding a certain question or portion of the content,
along with the number of that question. However, keep in mind this additional
feed back sheet is optional and not a part of the course requirements.
The
completion of the Course Content Manual fill-in-the-blank type of questions and
the Audio tape multiple choice questions are independent of one another. So the
order in which you complete these exercises is up to you, whether you do the Course
Content Manual or audio tape first, or work on them simultaneously, makes no difference
since their content is related but not sequential.
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good way to look at this Audio Home Study Course is as a means to review, refresh,
and revitalize your information on ethical issues surrounding privacy and
confidentiality.
Here's
an overview of the learning modules that make up this 90 minute tape. The first
module will deal with (chuckle) "Who needs ethics anyway?" Next, we
will look at key privacy and confidentiality issues in the areas of: the Tarasoff
Decision, child abuse reporting, physician ethics, ethics and a burn victims rights,
e-care technology, and the right to know.
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