This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth study of ethics as it applies to the nursing profession. The course activities will facilitate exploration of numerous ethical issues related to health promotion work. Emphasis includes philosophical theories, principles of health care ethics, decision making processes, and morality as they inform a detailed discussion of ethical issues in nursing from a professional, interdisciplinary and structural (organizational ethics and political-economic) perspective. A core aspect of this experience is to learn how to co-create safe moral communities of practice and to engage in reflexive dialogue and praxis with peers, interdisciplinary partners and the various people that nurses will encounter within their health promotion practice.
Prerequisites
NURS 3262, NURS 3263, NURS 3264, NURS 3266, NURS 3370.
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What you will learn
- Introduction to Health Care Ethics and Ethical Decision Making
Contemporary Notions of Nursing Ethics
Moral Distress and Agency in Practice
Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks/Processes
Moral Agency in Practice: Advocating for Safe, Equitable and Just Health Care and Social Policies
Moral Agency in Practice: Social Justice
Ethical Issues in Data Collection within Population Health Promotion/Prevention Work
Moral Communities of Practice
How to register
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Course schedules
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.