Creighton University's Online Master's in Health Care Ethics

The Ideal Interdisciplinary Health Care Degree Online

Headlines about health care reform, spiraling costs for treatment and medicine, and disparities in the availability and quality of health care have led to more awareness of health care ethics. The online Master of Science in Health Care Ethics from Creighton University educates students in this complex field with few easy answers, touching on historical, cultural, philosophical, political, economic and legal aspects of an area also known as bioethics.

An interdisciplinary degree offered through Creighton's Center for Health Policy and Ethics (CHPE), the online M.S. in Health Care Ethics is an ideal degree for those who work in health care or related fields and want to become more effective in their current roles, such as physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, public health managers and chaplains.

Upon completing the program, you will be able to:

• Discern the ethical problems, ambiguities, controversies, and
      assumptions in health care practices, systems, policies,
      and laws.

• Discuss how the general concerns of ethics, particularly regarding
      vulnerability and marginalization, apply to health care practices,
      systems, policies, and laws.

• Critically reflect on personal and professional attitudes, actions, and
      development in response to reading, discussions, clinical cases, or
      simulations.

• Draw upon the humanities and liberal arts in the process of ethical
      reflection about the structures of health care.

• Compare and contrast the following from an ethical perspective:
      health care practices, systems, and cultures at national and
      international levels.

• When presented with an issue of ethical concern, orally and in writing
      apply ethical principles, norms, and theories; provide justification for
      a particulat response or course of action in a persuasice manner;
      anticipate counter arguments; and offer suitable rebuttals.

• Educate others about ethical issues in health care.

• Design ethical policy documents to improve the ethical quality of
      health care.

• Facilitate open discussion among multiple stakeholders in ethically
      complex situations.

Grounded in Compassion, Reaching Toward Justice

The University's core Jesuit, Catholic values of conscience, compassion, and concern for poor and marginalized groups and individuals are threaded throughout the coursework in the online M.S. in Health Care Ethics. You will examine quality of life and survival in populations that may receive lower quality care due to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other factors and explore methods to work toward social justice.

Find out more about Creighton University's online Master of Science in Health Care Ethics: call 866.717.6365 to speak to an Admissions Representative or REQUEST MORE INFORMATION today.