Course description:
This course is deign for nursing students and explores legal concepts and regulations that guide professional nursing practice and examines concepts, theories, and values, professional ethical standards and applied ethical decision-making that is related to a variety of ethical dilemmas in nursing practice and health care. In addition, the course focus on ethical obligations of professional nurses in their roles as citizens, members of a profession, providers of care, and designers and managers of care.
Course Aims:
The goal of this course is to prepare nursing student about legal considerations, pertinent to the practice of nursing, examine the major ethical theories and ethical principles influencing ethical decision making, Explored contemporary moral, legal, and ethical concepts that affect the practice of nurses and other health care providers. Finallyapply healthcare principles as a guide in the resolution of ethical dilemmas in selected nursing practice areas.
Course outcomes:
After the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss critically the ethical dimensions of nursing and health care practice.
- Examine critically key ethical issues occurring in nursing and related health care contexts.
- Examine critically the nature and role of ethical theories in guiding sound ethical decision making in workplace settings.
- Discuss critically processes for achieving desired moral outcomes in nursing and healthcare domains.
- Explore the application of lateral and critical thinking processes to moral problem-solving in professional practice domains.
- Examine critically and learn from past and present experiences of dealing with ethical issues, both of self and others to extend professional and personal selves.
- Discuss critically assumptions and prejudices that may impact on ethicalprofessional development and practice.