Dimensions of Professional Practice, Role Development and Nursing Ethics

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the profession of nursing. Students will be required to think critically about the nursing profession, its historical and theoretical framework, its legal and ethical issues, and the standards of nursing practice. Nursing students will learn about the US health care system as well as healthcare systems around the globe; they will also examine the disparities that exist within those different systems. This course will provide information and strategies that nurses, and nursing professionals can utilize to confront health and health care challenges. Students will also learn how to provide collaborative and interdisciplinary partnerships within the health care system. This course emphasizes the collaborative nurse- patient relationship along with decision-making approaches and models, rationale for decisions, and the management of care for various ethical situations that occur in nursing practice.