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Nov 21, 2024
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NU 416 - Clinical Ethics
Credits: 3
This course explores the ethical issues facing clinicians in the workplace and provides an opportunity for small group discussion in which students explore their own beliefs, biases and wisdom related to these issues. Topics include patient self-determination, informed consent, end-of-life decision making, advocacy, truth-telling, confidentiality, ethics consultation process, and more. Students have the opportunity to assess their own moral agency and to develop basic skills in recognizing and addressing ethical challenges.
Prerequisite/Corequisite
Prerequisite(s): PH 200
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:
- Communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team, including the patient and the patient’s support network to resolve ethical issues.
- Implement patient and family care around resolution of end of life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management, support of rituals, and respect for patient and family preferences.
- Develop an awareness of patients’ spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care and health care choices.
- Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote therapeutic relationships and communication.
- Advocate for high quality, safe and ethical patient care as a member of the interprofessional team.
- Recognize personal limitations when dealing with an ethical challenge & when to access interprofessional and intra-professional resources to resolve ethical dilemmas.
- Recognize and act to prevent unsafe, illegal, or unethical care practices.
- Use appropriate tools and proper terminology to analyze and determine the best approach to resolving an ethical issue.
- Demonstrate respect for the moral agency of patients, self and others.
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