Ethics in Rehabilitation: A Clinical Perspective

This textbook provides a unique approach to learning about and dealing with ethical dilemmas in the health care profession. There are over 115 ethical dilemmas included in this text based upon real events and covering a broad range of categories such as billing, documentation, pediatric issues, psychiatric setting, fieldwork, home health care, managed care, long-term care, and much more.

Ethics in Rehabilitation: A Clinical Perspective consists primarily of exercises that are based on events which address current issues in health care today. A very important first chapter will take a look at why ethical dilemmas seem so prevalent today, as well as looking at the changing face of rehabilitation practice. The authors look at where our sense of ethics is developed, how ethics are recognized, strategies on addressing dilemmas, and methods for analyzing them.

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A checklist of the most common legal issues occupational therapists face in practice that can be confused with an ethical problem. AOTA and APTA Code of Ethics. Samples of relevant laws. Relevant Medicare regulations. Sample Licensure Laws.