• Welcome and Introduction
• Overview of Course Philosophy
• Overview of Course Syllabus
• FGCU Technology Introduction
• Distance learning technologies
• Issues in distance learning

1. Create a Word document
2. Find a Web site about Anthropology
3. Send an email with/without an attachment to the instructor
4. Post a message to the class distribution list
5. Reply to the message from the instructor
6. Finish Tech. Skills online survey
7. Send a paragraph stating the reasons for taking this course to the instructor from the class Web site
8. Post a mesage on the bulletin board
9. Reply to a posting on the bulletin board
10. Make a contribution in the class chat room
11. Use on-line library catalogue and search other on-line databases for publications
12. Retrieve electronic class reserves
13. Based on the online survey result, make a learning plan if necessary

Introduction
Session 2

Readings :

Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. PEW Commission. DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 91-50213. pp. 1-8. (Electronic reserves)

Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness. Spector, Rachel. Appleton & Lange, 1996, pp. 19-44. (Electronic reserves)

National Health Care Skill Standards Part III

Assignment:

Characteristics of Your Profession

Class Discussion

        Topics for Session 2

Class discussion/bulletin board

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1. Define and discuss the concepts of health and illness.
2. Define health as described by the World Health Organization (WHO).
3. Describe the health care consumers’ initial, secondary, and experiential responses to health.
4. Define homeostasis as described by WHO, illness, health status
5. Describe the four stages of the illness experience.
6. Define health status and list factors which influence health status.
7. Explain the purpose of the PEW Commission Report Healthy People 2000, its goals and strategies.
8. Differentiate among the terms "profession, professional, and professionalism."
9. Define and discuss the National Health Care Skill Standards (NHCSS).
10. Define the functions of the health care core.

Readings :

    Hippocratic Oath

Assignments:

  Philosophy Statements & Codes of Ethics    

Class Discussion

Topics for Session 3

Class discussion/bulletin board

Ground Rules for Bulletin Board

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1. Define philosophy and discuss the operantional definiation of philosophy.
2. Understand and discuss the importance of philosophy.
3. Describe the process of values clarification.
4. Identify and discuss the components of health professions philosophy statements.
5. Discuss and compare the philosophy of their own health profession with the philosophy of other health professions.
6. Discuss and compare the Code of Ethics of their health profession with the Code of Ethics of other health professions.

     Session 4

Readings :

     The Rise of the Health Care Consumer

    The Consumer as Health Care Manager

     Health Information On-Line

     Patient's Rights & Responsibilities (DVA)

     Becoming a More Prudent Health Care Consumer

     Becoming a Wiser Health Care Consumer

     Patient's Bill of Rights (AHA)

     Healthy People 2000

Assignment:

      Be a Health Care Consumer Browser

Class Discussion:

      Topics for Session 4

      Class discussion/bulletin board

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1. Discuss the role of the ill patient through history.
2. Define and discuss the psychological aspects of illness toward patients from the perspectives of the patient, family, and health care provider.
3. Identify the five groups of health care consumers and discuss the health issues related to each group.
4. Identify, discuss, and compare the four patient-provider prototypes.
5. Define the consumer's role in health care.
6. Discuss the consumer's role in the growing field of health information.
7. Discuss the "Patient's Bill of Rights."
8. Identify characteristics of a wise and prudent health care consumer.

Readings :

   Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness. Spector, Rachel. Appleton & Lange, 1996, pp. 3-18; 63-81. (Electronic reserves)   

Assignments:

     Diversity in Health Care

Class Discussion

        Topics for Session 5

Class discussion/bulletin board

Individual Project:   Due March 19th

Grading Criteria

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1. Understand health traditions and the cultural phenomena that affect them.
2. Understand the interrelationships of culture, relgion, and ethnicity relative to health and illness beliefs and practices.
3. Identify alternative and religious types of healing in contemporary society.
4. Identify and discuss the cross-cultural guidelines for health care professionals.

Readings :

     Pew Commission Competencies
     Challenges to the Health Professions
     Urban Health Care
     Non-Physician Providers
     Home Health Care
     What is Home Health Care? (Web)
     Health Care Becomes Big Business
          Also includes the following articles:
          Turning Up the Heat on Managed Care
          The Case of the Vanishing Patient
     Managed Health Care: Standing Tall (Web)
     What Is Long Term Care? (Web)
     Squeezing the Life Out of Hospitals
     Rural Health Care

Assignments:

     Health Care Practitioner's Competencies  
  

Class Discussion:

        Topics for Session 6

Class discussion/bulletin board

Individual Project:   Due March 19th

     Grading Criteria


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1. Define and discuss the various models of practice and care and the role of health professionals in each of these settings.
2. Define and discuss the competencies health care practitioners should have according to the PEW Commission.
3. Define and discuss the recommendations for all health professionals as outlined by the PEW Commission.

     Session 7  

Readings :

     Hospitals and Total Quality Management

Assignments:

     TQM in My Life

Class Discussion

     Topics for Session 7

     Class discussion/bulletin board

Individual Project:    Due March 19th

     Grading Criteria

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1. Define quality and identify the characteristics of quality.
2. Define TQM and trace the development of TQM as a health care tool for quality improvement.
3. Describe the implementation steps of TQM.
4. Discuss the current interest in continuous quality improvement in health care and factors which limit the success of such programs.
5. Define outcomes assessment.
6. Discuss the structure, process, outcomes, and levels of outcomes assessment.
7. Discuss the need for outcomes assessment information.

Readings :

     Mandatory Continuing Education

     Mandatory CE: Does It Really Protect Society?

Assignments:

     Continuing Education

Class Discussion

     Topics for Session 8

     Class discussion/bulletin board

Individual Project:    Due March 19th

     Grading Criteria

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1. Define, compare, and contrast the levels of professionals.
2. Define continuing education.
3. Describe the measure of continuing education unit.
4. Describe the issues related to mandatory continuing education.
5. Discuss methods and means of improving continuing education.
6. Define competency.

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Readings :

     Decision Making & Basic Principles of Ethics
     

Assignments:

    Case Study            Due April 16th 

Class Discussion

     Topics for Session 9

     Class discussion/bulletin board

Individual Project:    Due March 19th

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     Grading Criteria

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1. Discuss the theories of contemporary duty-oriented and consequence-oriented reasoning.
2. Discuss the theory of utilitatianism, and analyze a clinical problem following its framework.
3. Discuss the theory of deontology, and analyze a clinical problem following its framework.
4. Differentiate between act and rule utilitarianism.
5. List the major criticisms of duty-oriented and consequence-oriented systems.
6. Outline the theoretical position of virtue ethics, and name the contemporary theorist associated with this position.
7. List the major criticisms of virtue ethics.
8. Differentiate between morals and ethics.
9. Identify and define the universal principles of health care ethics.
10. Define paternalism and discuss how it is a conflict between the principles of autonomy and beneficence.
11. Explain the principle of informed consent.
12. Discuss the four models of patient/health care provider interaction as outlined by Robert Veatch.
13. Delineate basic information that must be gathered and the steps to be taken in ethcial decision making.
14. Discuss the circumstances under which whistle-blowing is appropriate.

Readings :

     Intro to Law - Negligence & Standard of Care
     Standard Jury Instructions
     Malpractice Update
     Statute of Repose

Assignments:

    Case Study            Due April 16th 

Class Discussion

    Topics for Session 10

     Class discussion/bulletin board

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1. Define and describe the 4 elements of negligence.
2. Identify the procedures prior to filing a lawsuit.
3. Define basic key legal terms.
4. Explain the court procedure and the individuals involved when a case is brought to trial.
5. Define the Good Samaritan Act.
6. Discuss the differences between contract, tort, criminal, and administrative law.

Readings :

     Worker's Compensation
     Violence in the Healthcare Industry
     Stress
     Professional Life Stress Scale
     30 Ideas to Reduce Stress
     Burnout Inventory

Assignments:

    Top 10 List             Due April 3rd

    Case Study            Due April 16th 

Class Discussion

     Topics for Session 11

     Class discussion/bulletin board

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1. Discuss the importance of a Workplace Violence Program.
2. Identify internal and external sources of workplace violence.
3. Define and differentiate between temporary and permanent disability.
4. Define stress.
5. Identify general, specific, and task related sources of stress at work.
6. Discuss the effects of stress.
7. Discuss ways of managing stress.
8. Define burnout.
9. Discuss the stages of burnout.

Readings:

     Steps to Choosing a Fulfilling Career
    What Do I Really Want to Do With My Life?
     So You Want To Change Your Job
     What's Ahead for the Healthcare Industry?
     Where Else Can I Work?
     How To Choose Among Job Offers
     How Professionals Choose Among Multiple Offers
     Major Types of Interviews
     Finding a Job and Evaluating a Job Offer
     Job Search - Job Interview
     So You Want to Go Into Business

Assignments:

    Resume                  Due April 10th

    Case Study            Due April 16th 

Class Discussion

     Topics for Session 12

     Class discussion/bulletin board

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1. Identify factors which are important to health care professionals in searching for a job.
2. Identify factors which influence why health care professionals reject job offers.
3. Identify and describe procedures for seeking a job.
4. Identify the components of a resume.
5. Define and describe proper protocol for job interviews.
6. Describe the considerations for evaluating a job offer.
7. Identify and explain the steps in pre-assessing entrepreneurship.
8. Identify and explain the components of a blueprint for a business plan.

Readings :

     Technology Assessment in the Private Sector
     High Technology
     Health Care Technology

Assignments:

    Case Study            Due April 16th 

Class Discussion

     Topics for Session 13

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1. Identify and discuss technological advances in medicine over the past 50 years.
2. Identify various agencies responsible for technology assessment and discuss their various functions.
3. Discuss the effectiveness of regulations on technology assessment.
4. Discuss the response technology manufacturers are making to the request for technology assessment.
5. Discuss the growth and use of telemedicine in health care.

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1. Discuss the characteristics of health care in select countries throughtout the world.
2. Compare and contrast the characteristics of health care in these countries.
3. Discuss the role of health practitioners in these countries.

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