EPN-V2

MAKLI4200 Practical Ethics Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Praktisk etikk
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2022/2023
Course history
Programme description

  • Introduction

    The student must have been admitted to the study programme.

  • 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 following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

    • participate in at least 1 of 2 seminars

  • Course requirements

    Individual home examination (multiple choice), 45 minutes.

    The multiple choice test is given partial in English and Norwegian.

  • Assessment

    All aids are permitted.

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    Pass/fail

  • Grading scale

    One external and one internal examiner control the set of questions, the internal examiner controls the answers.

  • Examiners

    BIOB1050 Public Health and Health Management , ERGOB1050 Public Health and Health Management , FARB1050 Public Health and Health Management , FYB1050 Public Health and Health Management , RAB1050 Public Health and Health Management , ORI1050 Public Health and Health Management , PMED1050 Public Health and Health Management , SYKK1050 Public Health and Health Management , SYKP1050 Public Health and Health Management , TAB1050 Public Health and Health Management og VERB1050 Public Health and Health Management overlap 100 %.

  • Overlapping courses

    10 studiepoeng overlapp med MASYK4510