Professional Deontology I

Scholar Year: 2019/2020

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Rui Paulo Ramalho Inês Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL TC S E EL OT TPL O OT/PL Type of classes 1,33 ,33 ,67 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical Totals 1 1,33 Theoretical-practical Totals 2 0,66 Seminário Totals 1 0,67

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Aims to support the development of General Nurse Skills in the domain - Responsible, Ethical and Legal
Practice, this unit promotes de following skills / learning outcomes:
• Accepts responsibility and is accountable for its actions and the judgments which elaborates;
• Engages effectively in decision making;
• Respect the client's right to choice and self-determination related to nursing and health;
• Exercised according with the Deontological Code;
• Acts in defense of human rights, as described in the Deontological Code;
• Respect the right of clients to access information;
• Ensures confidentiality and security of information, oral and written, acquired as a professional;
• Respect the client's right to privacy;
• Addresses appropriately care practices that can compromise the security, privacy or dignity of the client;
• Maintains responsibility when delegating aspects of care;
• Recognizes the limits of your role and competence.

Syllabus

1. Framework.
1.1. Relations Ethics, Morals, Ethics, Law.
1.2. Codes of Conduct and Ethical Declarations
1.3. Deontological Codes: International reality - Research of Deontological Codes / Codes of Ethics.
2. Deontology
2.1. Historical trajectory of Professional Conduct
2.2. Regulatory - The Professional Deontological Code for nurses. Rights, Duties and Incompatibilities.
3 - Analysis of Deontological Code
3.1. - Principles and Values (Article 99).
3.2. - General Duties and Human Values (Articles 100, 102).
3.3. - Duties to the community (Article 101).
3.3. - Duties related to life and death (Articles 103, 108).
3.4. - The Right to care and intimacy (Articles 104, 107).
3.5. - Information and Secrecy (Articles 105, 106).
3.6. - Excellence (Article 109).
3.7. - Humanization of Care (Article 110).
3.8. - Duties to the profession and other professions (Articles 111, 112).
3.9. - Conscience Objection (Article 113).

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

The development of general nurse skills in the domain Responsible, Ethical and Legal Practice, presumes the ownership of knowledge that integrate concepts, principles, values and duties and their relationship in the context of professional Nursing practice and regulation. The contents of this unit are a fundamental conceptual platform that able students for this achievements and promotes; their understanding of Nursing professional and social responsibility; and their understanding of Nursing Care´s complexity and particularity as well as Nursing decision-making process. The approach to deontological perspective goes by the review and analyzes of Nurse´s Code of Ethics and others ethical and deontological documents produced by the Portuguese Board of Nurses. In the learning process, the students are asked in their beliefs and values, and invited to debate and to build their own argument, based on Deontological duties correlatives to Person rights, dignity and Nursing Care Quality.

Teaching methodologies

In the present year, with the implementation of the New Study Plan in the 2nd year of the CLE, the proposed methodology to support students' learning, is the possibility to attend the classes of EDDP II UC and, in this context, to contact again with Professional Deontology contents and may ask questions or request support for the study.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

The methodology was designed to give students the main conceptual tools and procedures to respond to Nursing ethical-deontological professional requirements. It aims are to improve theoretical / conceptual knowledge in ethical-deontological subjects and the skill of mobilize professional concepts, principles, values and duties in hypothetical Nursing practice situations. Invite the students to participate in EDDP II and to debate, improves argument skills, awareness of self and professional principles/values, and consolidate their own speech, found on ethics and on Portuguese Nursing Board Deontological doctrine. The documental and case analysis, also seeks to promote reflection and the deliberative debate associated with the ethical e deontological decision-making process. The evaluation methodology permits to assess the degree of conceptual ownership and conceptual mobilization skills to nursing clinical situations. The evaluation is returned to the students allowing a meta-evaluation.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

The continuous unit assessment includes a test in the same time that EDDP II test
The Exam is a test.

Attendance system

Established in the Academic Regulation

Software

Office - word, powerpoint

Keywords

Health sciences > Ethics in health sciences

Mandatory Bibliography

Observations

Students with Continuous Assessment results less than 9.50, have to perform Exam.
Students who do not comply with the attendance regime established in the Academic Regulations, have to perform Exam.