39333 - Deontology - Nursing Ethics (CE)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student has developed and compared with critical thinking recognizing the problematic nature, the ethical deontological issues connected to the professional practice and in line with the bioethical guidelines of the health sector.

Course contents

Professional responsibility from the application of the rules to ethical and deontological principles

Contents, methods and tools in nursing responsibility in treating, caring for and assisting the person.

Normative references founding the professional responsibility of the nurse

The deontological codes, with particular reference to the contents of the 2019 Code of Conduct for Nursing Professions and the ICN Code of Conduct: analysis of values and principles and their meaning in clinical practice.

Ethics and bioethics (in particular)

The main approaches to ethics, the ethical principles for making decisions in conflict / ethical dilemma.

The current epistemological debate in bioethics, its influences on life sciences and in particular on the beginning and end of life.

Law 219 of 2017: Informed consent and DAT

Ethical aspects of research and ethics committees.

Methodology and tools for ethical analysis and decision-making in nursing practice between the position of the professional and the autonomy of the assisted person.

The ethics of “care”

Ethical principles for nursing practice: advocacy, competence, cooperation and caring.

The ethical meaning of care gestures.

Aspects of care of ethical significance, aimed at promoting and guaranteeing the protection and safety of the patient, his autonomy and his rights

Teaching methods

- Active teaching: Brainstorming, classroom exercises, group work

- Frontal lessons

- Analysis of cases on the main ethical dilemmas

Methods of verifying and evaluating learning

Oral exam

The purpose of the oral exam is to verify the student's ability to apply his own knowledge and to make the necessary logical-deductive connections inherent in the topics of the course. Graduation of the final grade: Analytical ability that emerges only with the help of the teacher, expression in overall correct language → 18-19; Autonomous analysis skills, expression in correct language → 20-24; Ability to carry out critical analysis, mastery of specific terminology → 25-29; Ability to perform critical and linking analysis, full command of specific terminology and ability to argue and self-reflect → 30-30

The evaluation will be averaged with the evaluations of the other modules making up the Integrated Course

The test will be carried out according to the indications contained in the University regulations (which you are invited to consult) and according to any other indications provided from time to time by the academic bodies

Assessment methods

Oral exam

The purpose of the oral exam is to verify the student's ability to apply his own knowledge and to make the necessary logical-deductive connections inherent in the topics of the course. Graduation of the final grade: Analytical ability that emerges only with the help of the teacher, expression in overall correct language → 18-19; Autonomous analysis skills, expression in correct language → 20-24; Ability to carry out critical analysis, mastery of specific terminology → 25-29; Ability to perform critical and linking analysis, full command of specific terminology and ability to argue and self-reflect → 30-30

The evaluation will be averaged with the evaluations of the other modules making up the Integrated Course

The test will be carried out according to the indications contained in the University regulations (which you are invited to consult) and according to any other indications provided from time to time by the academic bodies

Teaching tools

pc and video projector

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