NURS 145 Foundations of Ethics & Policy in Healthcare (2 credits)

1. Define policy, law and ethical components that help empower patients and families navigate the health care process.  

2. Discuss the unique attributes that members bring to a team, including variations in professional orientation and accountability. 

3. Describe the nurse’s rights and responsibilities in the healthcare setting. 

4. Identify ethical decision-making challenges that occur in healthcare.  

5. Identify licensure and policies related to nursing scope of practice.  

6. Explain laws on how information is managed in healthcare settings. 

1. 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.  

2. 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. 

3. Evidence-based practice:  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.  

4. 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. S 

5. Safety:  Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.  

6. 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

Potential Methods
Exams (multiple choice; multiple response)
Quizzes
Case Studies
Research writing
Projects (individual and/or group)