This course provides an opportunity for you to assess ethical and legal issues confronting nurses and other health care providers in a variety of health care delivery settings.  It focuses on the identification and analysis of legal and ethical concepts and principles underlying nursing and health care. Each unit of content is an opportunity for you to explore current ethical and legal issues that impact professional nursing and health care practice.  The course also focuses on ethical concepts, theories, and values applied in ethical decision-making that are related to a variety of ethical dilemmas in nursing practice and health care.  It promotes an examination of legal concepts and regulations under which professional nurses practice and notes that ethical and legal issues are often not mutually exclusive.  

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