BDET041 Nursing Ethics

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0.7/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marie Mikošková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Vaňharová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BDSI011 Social interaction
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.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction (terminology, history, methods) 2. Patient rights - obligations of health care providers 3. Informed consent 4. Patient-physician relationship, patient-nurse relationship 5. Truth about diagnosis (ethics of cummunication) 6. Personal data protection in health care 7. Information and privacy procection, documentation, reserach 8. Transplantation ethics 9. Ethics in assisted reproduction 10. Prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis, genetic screening 11. Ethical problems in intensive care 12. Care of terminally ill and dying patients 13. Euthanasia, assisted suicidum 14. Ethics in 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
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, Helena. Manuálek o etice (Ethics). Brno: Institut pro další vzdělání pracovníků ve zdravotnictví, 2000. ISBN 80-7013-310-4. info
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, Helena. Manuálek sociální gerontologie. Vyd. 1. Brno: Institut pro další vzdělávání pracovníků ve zdravotnictví, 2002, 72 s. ISBN 8070133635. 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
  • BENJAMIN, Martin and Joy CURTIS. Ethics in nursing : cases, principles, and reasoning. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv, 285. ISBN 9780195380224. info
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
Lecture, (oral) colloquium.
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: 10.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020.
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