Course
Discontinued
No
Course Code
NURS 3415
Descriptive
Applied Nursing Ethics, Leadership and Moral Courage
Department
Nursing
Faculty
Health Sciences
Credits
3.00
Start Date
End Term
Not Specified
PLAR
No
Semester Length
15 weeks
Max Class Size
36
Course Designation
Certificate in Global Competency
Industry Designation
None
Contact Hours
Lecture: 4 hours/week
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Learning Activities
Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, group discussions, client-based scenarios, and using electronic resources.
Course Description
This course focuses on applied nursing ethics with an emphasis on the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses. Applied nursing ethics is a sub-category of ethics, and it involves translating ethical principles into professional nursing practice. This course builds on prior leadership courses, viewing leadership from the perspective of individual and collective influence. Students develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and abilities to act as leaders in the professional nursing field, explicitly emphasizing acts of moral courage.
Course Content
Ethical Perspective:
- CNA Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
Concepts and/or themes applied to nursing ethics:
- Care
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Emotional intelligence
- Ethical problems
- Ethical dilemmas
- Moral distress
- Moral agency
- Moral disengagement
- Moral outrage
- Moral courage
- Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices
- Duty to report
- Safe practice
- Public safety
- Health policy
- Health equity
- Sex and gender
- Race and ethnicity
- Indigenous Peoples and reconciliation
- Social justice
- Power differentials in professional relationships
Moral Principles as applied to nursing:
- Advocacy
- Autonomy
- Integrity
- Veracity
- Fidelity
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Confidentiality
- Moral courage
- Respect for self-worth
- Respect for dignity
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Recognize how leadership competencies in nursing are grounded in experience and guided by ethical values and responsibilities that are significant to nursing;
- Apply nursing leadership in the form of advocacy and moral courage to their professional and personal lives;
- Explain how ethical and legal considerations relate to nursing practice, including client confidentiality, informed consent, and duty to report;
- Solve ethical dilemmas using an ethical decision-making model;
- Identify moral principles that are relevant to ethical problems encountered in nursing;
- Integrate the directives in the CNA Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses to decision-making in nursing care.
Means of Assessment
This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the evaluative components of the course.
Textbook Materials
The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the required textbooks and materials that students must purchase.
Prerequisites