Objectives and competences
The objectives of this course are providing and developing:
— Compassionate emergency care with the best interest of the patient as the focus of decision making;
— Respect, regard, integrity, and a responsiveness to the needs of patients and society that supersedes self-interest, that assumes responsibility and acts responsibly, and that demonstrates commitment to excellence and ongoing professional development;
— Commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality of patient information, informed consent, and business practices;
— Sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural differences, including awareness of their own and their patients’ cultural perspectives.
Content (Syllabus outline)
There are three fundamental ethical premises that guide nursing in general and also emergency nursing:
— The principle of justice implies that the system be fair and equitable.
— The principle of beneficence requires that actions and intentions are in the best interest of the patient.
— Respect for patient autonomy dictates that the requests of the patient are honored and nothing is done which is contrary to the wishes of the patient.
— The principle of veracity refers to the duty to be truthful and provide patient with adequate information necessary to make an informed decision – informed consent.
Case – analysis, based on those ethical principles, as a mean of developing professional competence in emergency nursing.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures (auditory and e-lectures),
• seminar with a discussion(auditory and e-seminars),
• Presentations of articles.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
• Knowledge and understanding:
- Identify underlying ethical issues, problems and dilemmas in all kinds of situations and specific cases, express and formulate complex and controversial problems in emergency nursing precisely.
• Use and analysis:
- Analyze and construct sound arguments and recognize logical and ethical fallacies, methodological errors, rhetorical devices or unexamined conventional wisdom, invent or discover cases to support or challenge a position, and distinguish those that are relevant from those that are not.
• Synthesis and evaluation:
- critically examine and independently formulate the best arguments for variety of ethical decisions and look for their weakest parts, evaluate views and arguments of others tolerantly and conceptualize her own theoretical activity.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
Communication skills:
oral expression at oral exam, writing expression at completing a seminar, writing expression at doing house works, oral expression at collaborating in a discussion, presentation.
• Use of information technology: search for relevant information on the internet.
• Problem solving: ethical problems and dilemmas.
Readings
Temeljna literature:
Izbrana poglavja iz:
Beauchamp, T. L. STANDING ON PRINCIPLES: Collected Essays, New York: OUP. 2010.
Beauchamp, T. L. and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Seventh edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Izbor/Reader iz revij o etičnih problemih v zdravstvu s poudarkom na urgenci.
Dodatna literature:
Izbrana poglavja iz:
Buchanan, A. Justice and Health Care. Oxford: OUP. 2009.
Klampfer, F. Cena življenja, Ljubljana: Krtina. 2010.
Williamson, Ch.TOWARDS THE EMANCIPATION OF PATIENTS Patients’ experiences and the patient movement. Bristol: The Policy Press. 2010.
Prerequisits
There are no prerequisites
