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BSN 315

Ethics in Nursing Practice
Name: Ethics in Nursing Practice
Course Number: BSN 315
Credit(s): 3

Course Description

BSN 315 Ethics in Nursing Practice examines the ethical dimensions of nursing practice to enable safe, humane patient care, particularly in situations of significant pressures on the health care resource. Students learn about ethical nursing practice through different theoretical lenses, across various patient care situations, and throughout the human lifespan. Through this course, students learn to balance the recognition and articulation of the ethical responsibilities of individual nurses to provide humane, sensitive, and competent care to patients and the responsibility of the healthcare organization within which nurses work to support nursing staff in providing this care. (Formerly HCA 315: Bioethics)

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the deeply intertwined nature of the ethical and clinical aspects of nursing practice and the provision of nursing care.
  • Critically analyze ethical nursing practice through various theoretical lenses.
  • Critically analyze ethical issues nurses encounter in practice and how to resolve them.
  • Learn the ethical responsibilities of nurses and organizations in providing humane, sensitive, and competent care to patients.

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