Ethical, Legal, Health Policy

Catalog description

This course integrates ethical, legal, and health policy issues in contemporary nursing. Students review the major ethical principles, several ethical theories, conceptual frameworks, and ethical decision-making models and analyze the ANA Code of Ethics with Interpretive Statements in relation to individual practice settings and the nursing profession. Students utilize debate methodology to resolve common ethical dilemmas in nursing and discuss legal implications related to providing nursing care—specifically, examples of malpractice, how a bill becomes a law, and the legislative process. Students develop a position paper on a relevant health policy issue including integration of relevant ethical, legal, legislative, and economic implications.