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NURS 6382 - Ethical Issues in Nursing Practice

[3 Credits]
A seminar course designed to enhance the student’s ability to describe and analyze ethical concepts foundational to nursing practice and utilize a variety of ethical decision-making frameworks to analyze ethical dilemmas in practice. The historical development of these concepts in the professional ethic will be presented and theories of bio-ethics and nursing ethics will be analyzed. Specific attention will be given to the advanced nursing practice competency of ethical decision making skills, and to nursing participation in institutional ethics committees. Students will apply elements of these concepts and principles of ethics to nursing practice utilizing case studies.