HNN714 - Ethical Dimensions of Nursing
Unit details
| Enrolment modes: | (X) |
|---|---|
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit chair: | M-J Johnstone (B) |
| Incompatible with: | HNN414 |
Note:Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications. | |
Content
This unit has as its focus a critical examination of the ethical dimensions of nursing. Using ethical principlism, moral rights, virtue ethics, and cross-cultural ethics as a decision-making framework, the unit aims to provide students with an opportunity to explore and reflect critically on a range of key ethical issues arising in contemporary nursing and related health care domains. To this end, particular attention is given to the issues of: the nature of ethics in nursing; the relationship between the legal, clinical and ethical dimensions of nursing; cross-cultural ethics; patients' rights to and in health care; mental health care ethics; matters of life and death (e.g. abortion, euthanasia/assisted suicide; end of life decision making; quality of life); patient safety ethics (including: the responsibility of nurses to co-participate in processes aimed at reducing the incidence and impact of preventable adverse events in health care, reporting nursing errors, open disclosure, conscientious objection, and whistleblowing); ethical issues associated with reporting child abuse and neglect/elder abuse and neglect, and indigenous health as a special moral imperative.
Assessment
Critique of a journal article addressing a substantive ethical issue (2000 words) 40%, Critical essay OR critical case study on a practice-related ethical issue (3000 words) 60%
Unit Fee Information
| Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Student Contribution Rate*** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
| $706 | $565 | $565 | $2246 | $2779 |
* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.