39333 - Deontology - Nursing Ethics (CE)

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Claudia Martini
  • Credits: 2
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

After completing this module the student must know the values and ethical principles of the profession, understand and be able to discuss with critical thinking, deontological ethical issues related to professional practice, consistent with the bioethical guidelines in health-specific.

Course contents

-         Introductory notes: Ethics and deontological professional

-         The professional code of ethics : values ​​and ethical principles, historical development, analysis and reflections on the code of ethics of nurses in 2009

-         The codes of ethics of the health professions: a comparative analysis

-         Deontological professional andresponsibility ofnursing

-         Ethics innursing

-         How to take an ethical decision: presentation, discussion, reflection on clinical cases.

-         Introduction to Bioethics: National Committees for Bioethics.

-         Ethical issuesat the beginningof life.

-         Ethicsin research anddrug testing.

-         Ethics andorgan donation.

-         Multiculturalismand ethicsof care

-         Ethical issues in contention.

-         The Ethics at the end of life.

-         Ethics andsafetyof care.

      -     Ethics andprivacy.

Readings/Bibliography

Lattarulo P., Bioetica e deontologia professionale. Ed. McGrawHill, 2011

Cattorini P., Bioetica: metodi ed elementi di base per affrontare problemi clinici. Ed. Masson, 2011

Mori M., Introduzione alla bioetica – 12 temi per imparare a discutere. Ed. Express, 2012

Federazione Nazionale Collegi IPASVI (a cura di Annalisa Silvestro), Commentario al Codice Deontologico dell'Infermiere 2009, McGrawHill, 2009

Teaching methods

Active learning (brainstorming exercises in the classroom), lectures, case studies, group work.

Assessment methods

Examination written

Teaching tools

PC, Videoprojector

Office hours

See the website of Claudia Martini