Course description
This course focuses on applied nursing ethics with an emphasis on the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses. Applied nursing ethics is a sub-category of ethics, and it involves translating ethical principles into professional nursing practice. This course builds on prior leadership courses, viewing leadership from the perspective of individual and collective influence. Students develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities to act as leaders in the professional nursing field, explicitly emphasizing acts of moral courage.
Course content
Ethical Perspective:
- CNA Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
Concepts and/or themes applied to nursing ethics:
- Care
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Emotional intelligence
- Ethical problems
- Ethical dilemmas
- Moral distress
- Moral agency
- Moral disengagement
- Moral outrage
- Moral courage
- Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices
- Duty to report
- Safe practice
- Public safety
- Health policy
- Health equity
- Sex and gender
- Race and ethnicity
- Indigenous Peoples and reconciliation
- Social justice
- Power differentials in professional relationships
Moral Principles as applied to nursing:
- Advocacy
- Autonomy
- Integrity
- Veracity
- Fidelity
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Confidentiality
- Moral courage
- Respect for self-worth
- Respect for dignity
Learning activities
Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, group discussions, client-based scenarios, and using electronic resources.
Means of assessment
This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍø Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class a