Course Overview
Continues from Health Care Law 1 to examine legal issues important to health care managers and leaders. Write the final examination 12 days after the end of classroom instruction.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
1.5
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Identify those Charter and common-law principles that define and limit self determination in health care decision making.
- Explain the torts of battery and negligence as they arise from the consent doctrine.
- Discuss the impact and the limitations of advance directives.
- Summarize the major legal requirements contained in public health legislation in B.C.
- Articulate some special legal considerations associated with AIDS.
- Discuss the administration, treatment, review and custody of persons with mental disorders.
- Summarize the recent changes to the Criminal Code respecting mentally disordered offenders.
- Explain how death is defined in law.
- Compare and contrast the concepts of refusing treatment, assisted suicide, and active involuntary euthanasia.
- Articulate the powers and limitations of the office of coroner.
- Identify new torts associated with the use of reproductive technologies.
- Discuss the legal uncertainty surrounding such technological issues as artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy.
- Explain the state of the law in Canada regarding sterilization and abortion.
Effective as of Fall 2003
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice. Find out more about BCIT course cancellations.