Philosophy, Ethics and Law in Nursing

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S

Courses

Teaching - Hours Contact hours: 3,73 Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 3,73 Lucília Nunes   2,53 Marco Constantino   0,66

Docência - Responsabilidades Teacher Responsability Lucília Rosa Mateus Nunes Head Marco Aurélio Correia Carreira da Cunha Constantino Responsável Módulo

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives, competences and learning Outcomes

Aims to strengthen the reasoning ability and analysis. Approach in the field of intellectual tools, the ability to integrate these tools in an interdisciplinary way, the reflection on the ethics, bioethics and law. Moral education, in the broadest sense, which should not only lead to regulatory action, but also the construction of thoughts and behaviors.
Prepare students for the development of abstract thinking and understanding of the transversal dimensions of epistemological, ethical, legal and bioethics.

Learning outcomes:
- Understands the epistemological dimension and the very nature of nursing knowledge;
- Fits the legal regime applicable to the professional nursing;
- Discusses aspects of the nurse's own act, the ethical dimension;
- Analyze situations/cases from the perspective of bioethics and nursing ethics;
- Integrates knowledge in the development of judgments, including reflection on the implications and ethical and social responsibilities;
- Assesses situations on the light of the principles and duties;
- Underlies the complex decision making in nursing.
- Communicate its findings and reasoning in a clear and logical.

Main Contents

EPISTEMOLOGY
Essentials: opinion and knowledge
Science and epistemological problems.
Organization of the sciences. Epistemology of the Humanities - The possibility and specificity of the human as an object of scientific inquiry.
The diversity and disciplinary unit: multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity.
The epistemological identity of Nursing.

NURSING ETHICS
1. Ethical principles in health care
Human Dignity, Autonomy, Justice, Charity and Not Mischief
Vulnerability; Implications relationship and clinical intervention
2. Fundamental ethics and applied ethics. Bioethics, business ethics, clinical ethics, environmental ethics
3. Nursing ethics
Deepening of the general principles and professional values​​.
Discussion of the essential principles and challenges.

NURSING LAW
1. The Portuguese legal system.
2. The Nursing in the legal framework regulating the professional practice of nursing in Portugal.
3. The Regulation of Nurses Exercise (Decree-Law No. 161/96 of 4 September)
4. The Order of Nurses: legal nature, scope and functions; structure.
5. The Deontological Code.
6. The disciplinary action of the Association of Nurses.
7. Liability in nursing.
8. Criminal responsibility in nursing.
9. Administrative responsibility in nursing.
10. Legal status of nursing education.
11. Specific legal regimes of the nursing professional in Portugal: family planning, abortion, continuing care, palliative care, death, forensic medicine, exercise complementarity.

OPTIONAL MODULE - BIOETHICS AND NURSING
1. Ethical Principles and Bioethics: the approach principialist
2. Cases and Bioethics: a case approach
3. Bioethics bioethics of everyday situations of extreme situations
4. Bioethics, citizenship and collective health: social exclusion, racism, the ethics of solidarity, social commitment of science
5. List of bioethical issues related to the birth, life and living, death and dying and nursing intervention
6. Bioethics and moral pluralism: analysis of choices; theory of slippery sloap.

OPTIONAL MODULE - ANALYSIS OF THE CODE OF ETHICS
1 - The Deontological Code of Nurses (CDE).
2 - Analysis of the Code in the light of people's rights.
3 - Debate around cases and problem situations and dilemmas.

OPTIONAL MODULE - HUMANITIES AND CULTURES
1 - Memory - From history to ethics and personal and social identity.
2 - The Game - The cultural function of the game. The Art of War, Sun Tzu, the game theory. Homo Ludens, Huizinga's.
3 - Complexity - From thought complex Morin.
4 - Thought and Emotion - From Descartes' Error At the Meeting of Spinoza. What makes us think? (Changeux and Ricoeur)
5 - Judgement - The Will and Want, in Hannah Arendt. Fallacies in the decision.
6 - Human Nature - From Paradigm Lost (Morin) to A false measure of man (SJGould) The 'thin partitions "in the shadow of our forgotten ancestors (Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan).
7 - Eroticism and Death - Representations of Eros and Thanatos. History of Death in the West of Philippe Aries and eroticism Bataille.
8 - Information and Truth. The brain and the truth (Jean-Pierre Changeux). Information - gene, brain, computer. The virtual and the blogosphere.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Expository and participatory methods, argumentation and debate of ideas.
Discussion of texts, analysis articles.

Type of assessment

Observations

Evaluation choosed by students, between the analysis of a theme or the discussion of a case.