BSET021 Nursing Ethics

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1.5/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course gives an introduction to health care ethics. The aim of the course is: to introduce to health care ethics; to give information about ethical dilemmas in current medicine and health care; to learn how to prevent problems respecting ethical professional standards.
Learning outcomes
After completing the subject, the student will be able: - to identify ethical aspects of nursing - to analyze ethical dilemmas in nursing care - to apply the ethical normative tools
Syllabus
  • • Introduction to ethics • Patient-physician relationship, patient-nurse relationship • Patient rights - obligations of health care providers • Informed consent • Truth in health care • Personal data protection in health care • Health care information and privacy protection • Transplantation ethics • Ethics in assisted reproduction • Prenatal and preimplantation diagnostics, genetic screening • Ethical issues in intensive care • End of life decisions • Ethics of biomedical research
Literature
  • Od narození do smrti : etické problémy v lékařství. Edited by David C. Thomasma - Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, Translated by Lucie M. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 389 s. ISBN 8020408835. info
  • Blízké a vzdálené :etické teorie a principy práce s lidmi. Edited by Jan-Olav Henriksen - Arne Johan Vetlesen - Miluše Juříčková. 1. vyd. Boskovice: ALBERT, 2000, 210 s. ISBN 80-85834-85-5. info
  • Nursing ethics and professional responsibility in advanced practice. Edited by Pamela June Grace. Second edition. Burlingron: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2014, xiv, 560. ISBN 9781449667429. info
  • BENJAMIN, Martin and Joy CURTIS. Ethics in nursing : cases, principles, and reasoning. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv, 285. ISBN 9780195380224. info
  • BANDMAN, Elsie L. and Bertram BANDMAN. Nursing ethics : through the life span. 4th ed. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2002, xii, 333. ISBN 0838569765. info
  • GRACE, Pamela June. Nursing ethics and professional responsibility in advanced practice. 1st ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett publishers, 2009, xvii, 428. ISBN 9780763751104. info
  • HELD, Virginia. The ethics of care : personal, political, and global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, viii, 211. ISBN 0195180992. info
  • H. Forman, Nursing leadership for patient-centered care: authenticity, presence, intuition, expertise. New York: Springer, 2010, ISBN: 9780826105585.
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
Colloquium (written test) Exam (paper)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: podzimní semestr.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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