Studyinfo subject MAKLI4200 2022 HØST
MAKLI4200 Practical Ethics Course description
- Course name in Norwegian
- Praktisk etikk
- Study programme
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Masterstudium i helsevitenskap - spesialisering i sykepleie - klinisk forskning og fagutvikling
- Weight
- 10.0 ECTS
- Year of study
- 2022/2023
- Curriculum
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SPRING
2023
- Schedule
- Programme description
- Course history
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Introduction
Language of instruction: Norwegian
This course is based on a humanistic view of life and fundamental values of nursing. Teaching covers ethical theories and key ethical problems that are important to relieving suffering and maintaining and protecting the patient’s dignity in vulnerable life situations. The course will give the students a more thorough understanding of how ethics form a part of patients' (and next of kin's) health in different clinical contexts. This topic will be related to cultural and social perspectives and be explored from a multicultural perspective.
The course also aims to highlight the importance of the nurse’s internalised values and ability to make decisions as a condition for practising ethically-founded patient care that safeguards the patient’s dignity. Among the topics discussed are dilemmas related to questions about life and death, prioritisation in the health services and increased use of welfare technology.
The course aims to bring the students’ argumentation and decision-making skills to an advanced level.
Recommended preliminary courses
Completed MAKLI4100 Clinical Research and Professional Development in Nursing.
Required preliminary courses
The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Programme in Health Sciences and hold authorisation as a general nurse.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:
Knowledge
The student
- can critically assess different ethical guidelines and theories
- can assess values in nursing practice and the importance of their application in ethical practice
- can discuss dilemmas related to care with respect to vulnerability, dignity, infringement, power and powerlessness
- can assess and apply ethical principles such as autonomy, benevolence, non-maleficence and justice
- can critically assess moral virtues, professional discretion, and capacity for moral judgment
- can critically assess selected reflection and decision-making models within various ethical directions
Skills
The student
- can argue for basic values and ethical thinking in assessments and decision-making processes in nursing practice
- can identify patients and next of kin’s vulnerability in order to maintain their dignity, freedom and autonomy
- can apply decision-making theory in ethical argumentation to identify and analyse complex ethical problems and dilemmas
- can recognise moral stress in nursing practice and assess influences and preventive factors
- can use research to support ethical argumentation
- can communicate and argue on the basis of a professional ethical stance in interdisciplinary cooperation
- can apply decision-making theory and work methods used in clinical practice and ethics committees
General competence
The student
- can critically and independently reflect on ethical issues in a systematic manner
- can address patients and next of kin’s vulnerability in the event of health deficits in an ethical manner
- can see the importance of and reflect on values and their own personal formative education in ethical practice
- can assess and contextualise matters such as legal frameworks and cultural and socially-specific factors that are significant to ethical assessments and decisions
- can disseminate an independent work on ethical dilemmas and issues arising in their own clinical practice
- can contribute to new thinking in ethical questions and recognise their responsibility for ensuring ethical decisions that are in the best interests of the patient, next of kin and staff
Teaching and learning methods
The course will use varied, student-active work methods. Work and teaching methods include lectures, group work, training and self-study.
Emphasis is placed on dialogue and reflection, and topics that the students themselves wish to discuss based on their own experiences will be highlighted.
Course requirements
The following must have been approved in order for a student to be permitted to take the examination:
- Written assignment with oral presentation, carried out in groups of three to four students. Scope: 2,000 words (+/- 10%) Documentation of literature selected by the student: 350 pages. Oral presentation of the assignment to fellow students and lecturer(s). Peer assessment and feedback from the lecturer.
Assessment
Individual home examination over three days. Scope: 2,500 words (+/- 10%).
If the course is taught in English, students can also choose to write/conduct the examination in a Scandinavian language (Norwegian, Swedish or Danish).
Permitted exam materials and equipment
All examinations are assessed by an internal and an external examiner.