Nursing and Healthcare Ethics (BSN 304)

This course is designed to develop the foundations of decision-making in health care ethics. Decisions are based primarily upon a Judeo-Christian value system which has clear expression in the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Core assumptions of ethical systems used in health care ethics decision-making frameworks and models will be identified, evaluated and discussed. Critical examination of clinical cases provides opportunity to analyze ethical decisions as related to professional nursing, biophysical, and psychosocial concepts. Prerequisite: Completion of Health Assessment, Pathophysiology, Pharmacological Basis in Nursing, Conceptual Basis of Nursing I Theory and Conceptual Basis of Nursing I Clinical; or with approval of the Dean of the Undergraduate Program and course faculty.