Ethics in Health Care

Objectives

1) Describe the stages of the ethical decision-making process;

2) Identify fundamental values for nursing practice;

3) Establishing the relationship between ethics and multiculturality;

4) Discuss the ethical principles inherent in human sexuality;

5) Discuss legal and ethical-ethical aspects related to the life cycle.

Skills to be developed

The curricular unit contributes knowledge to the development of general skills as defined by the Tuning project:

Cginst - 1, 2, 7, 8 & 11

Cginterpess - 13, 14, 16,17,19 & 20

Cgsis - 2, 21, 22 & 23

 

The curricular unit contributes knowledge to the development of skills of the General Care Nurse defined by the Order of Nurses at the level of:

Cenfcg - A1 & A2; B1 (23, 24, 27, 29), B2 (34), B3 Text field with 1000-character Text limit (Text (Characters: 1210 (Text: 1000 | Formatting: 210))

Program

Ethical dilemmas and decision-making
Personal and professional values in nursing practice
Autonomy and responsibility
Compassion and solidarity
Fidelity and veracity
Ethics and multiculturality
Ethics and sexuality
Legal and ethical-ethical aspects related to the life principle: medically assisted procreation
Legal and ethical-ethical aspects related to life-long situations: marginalisation/discrimination of people with HIV/AIDS, organ transplants, refusal of treatment
Legal and ethical-deontological aspects related to the end of life: proportionate and disproportionate means; frivolous treatment; transmission of bad news; living will; euthanasia; distanasia or therapeutic obstinacy

Teaching Methodologies

In the theoretical component the expositive-interactive methodologies for content systematization are privileged and in the theoretical-practical component the analytical and reflective methodologies are combinedwhether by the preparation of group work by students with supervision of the teacher and subsequent presentation and debate in the classroom.

Bibliography

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