HBS300 - Ethics: Frameworks and Decisions
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| Enrolment modes: | (Online) |
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| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit chair: | L Wilson (B) |
| Contact hours: | This unit is offered as a wholly online unit through CloudDeakin. Students will undertake reflective exercises, directed readings, online exercises, case studies, debates (using technology-based mediums) and student-led discussions. |
Note:Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications. | |
Content
The unit proceeds from the perspective that all decisions and actions in the health sector are impacted on by many frameworks. For example, ethics, legislation, personal needs organisational missions, and social context. The unit commences with discussions of complex decisions within different work settings, which often have ethical and legal elements in them. For example, conflict of duties and interest, duty to client, duty to colleagues, duty to disclose unprofessional conduct of colleagues.Students will be introduced to different types of ethical approaches, with a view to providing a framework for exploring ethical issues. The relationship between personal and professional ethics will be examined and discussed in conjunction with professional accountability and practitioner autonomy. Throughout the unit students will be encouraged to critically reflect upon their own personal and discipline-related value systems and the value systems of the organisations with which they have frequent and significant contact. The unit concludes with an examination of strategies for ethical decision making in health services and the student's creation of a coherent ethical and values-based framework for their own use as a person with integrity operating in varied health roles.
Assessment
Completion of two activities (1000 words, 25% each) 50% in total, online exercises throughout the trimester 10%, pose an ethical argument on a topic of choice (1800 words) 40%
Unit Fee Information
| Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
| $1045 | $1045 | $2717 | $2809 |
* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.