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Ethical Dimensions of Nursing

  • HNN714
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This unit has as its focus a critical examination of the ethical dimensions of nursing. Using ethical principlism, moral rights, virtue ethics, and cross-cultural ethics as a decision-making framework, the unit aims to provide students with an opportunity to explore and reflect critically on a range of key ethical issues arising in contemporary nursing and related health care domains. To this end, particular attention is given to the issues of: the nature of ethics in nursing; the relationship between the legal, clinical and ethical dimensions of nursing; cross-cultural ethics; patients' rights to and in health care; mental health care ethics; matters of life and death (e.g. abortion,... -- Course Website

Instructor: M-J Johnstone (B)



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