NURS 265 Advanced Concepts of Ethics & Policy in Healthcare (2 credits)
Prerequisite Enrollment in the Associate Degree Nursing Program.
Course Description
Nursing code of ethics and concepts relative to ethical, moral and legal issues encountered in healthcare. Includes frameworks to support decision-making for individuals, families and communities across the lifespan. (Continuation of NURS 145).
Course Content
Policy, laws and ethics related to direct patient care
American Nurses Association code of ethics
Laws governing the rights and responsibilities of healthcare workers
Ethical decision-making models including those involving palliative and end-of-life care as outlined by American Nurses Association and healthcare organizations
Legal issues in healthcare
Informatics in healthcare and related ethical legal issues
Student Outcomes
- Discuss policy, law and ethical components that help empower patients and families navigate the health care process.
- Identify the unique attributes that members bring to a team, including variations in professional orientation and accountability.
- Analyze the nurse’s rights and responsibilities in the healthcare setting.
- Compare and contrast ethical decision-making challenges that occur in healthcare.
- Apply licensure and ethical policies to nursing scope of practice.
- Describe laws relative to information management in healthcare settings.
Degree Outcomes
Patient-centered care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Teamwork and collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Evidence-based practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Quality improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
Safety: Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
Core Abilities
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20
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