Course Description: This course provides training on understanding and advocating for patients’ rights and responsibilities. Participants will learn about patients’ legal rights, ethical considerations, and strategies for ensuring that patients are informed and empowered in their healthcare decisions.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand patients’ rights and responsibilities.
- Advocate effectively for patients’ legal rights.
- Ensure patients are informed and empowered in their healthcare decisions.
- Address ethical considerations in advocating for patients’ rights.
- Enhance the overall effectiveness of patient advocacy through informed and empowered patients.
Objectives:
- Identify key principles of patients’ rights and responsibilities.
- Understand legal rights and ethical considerations in patient advocacy.
- Develop and implement strategies for informing and empowering patients.
- Monitor and evaluate adherence to patients’ rights.
- Address common challenges in advocating for patients’ rights.
- Educate patients and families about their rights and responsibilities.
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure compliance with patients’ rights.
- Ensure continuous improvement in advocating for patients’ rights.
- Develop strategies for maintaining professional standards.
- Review case studies to apply principles of patients’ rights and responsibilities in real-world settings.
Units:
- Introduction to Patients’ Rights and Responsibilities
- Legal Rights of Patients
- Ethical Considerations in Advocating for Patients’ Rights
- Informing and Empowering Patients
- Monitoring and Evaluating Adherence to Patients’ Rights
- Addressing Challenges in Advocating for Patients’ Rights
- Educating Patients and Families about Rights and Responsibilities
- Collaboration with Healthcare Providers
- Continuous Improvement in Advocating for Patients’ Rights
- Case Studies and Practical Applications
