Healthcare Ethics and the Workplace
Contact Hours: 1
Cost: $12.00
Our continuing nursing education courses are accredited by the California Board of Registered Nurses, the Georgia Board of Nursing, and the Florida Board of Nursing. All states recognize our courses for accredited continuing education contact hours.
The Healthcare Ethics and the Workplace nursing CEU course is designed to expose participants to a variety of ethical issues and decisions that commonly occur in the workplace. In order to understand and appreciate the complexities involved in healthcare ethics and ethical decision making, this course will explore systematic strategies designed to assist healthcare professionals with ethical decision making. Participant will be required to access YouTube videos for this course.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will;
1. Define ethics and be familiar with the international nursing code of ethics
2. Assess ethical frameworks and principles used to make ethical decisions
3. Analyze a systematic model used to make ethical decisions
4. Develop an understanding of ethical dilemmas
5. Understand ethics and apply ethical guidelines, frameworks, principles and systematic models to solve ethical dilemmas
Curriculum
Chapter 1: Defining Ethics
The Professional Code of Ethics
Chapter 2: Ethical Frameworks
Utilitarianism Framework
Duty-based Framework
Rights-based Framework
Intuitionist Framework
Chapter 3: Ethical Principles and Theories
Teleological Principle
Deontological Principle
Beneficence Principle
Nonmaleficence Principle
Autonomy Principle
Paternalism
Justice Principle
Chapter 4: Using a Systematic Model to Make Ethical Decisions
Chapter 5: Solving Ethical Dilemmas