Professional Deontology II

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 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical Totals 1 1,33 Rui Inês   1,33 Seminário Totals 1 0,33 Rui Inês   0,33

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;
• Exercised according with the Deontological Code;
• Addresses Appropriately care practices that can compromise the security, privacy, or dignity of the client;
• Identify risky practices and adopts appropriate measures;
• Respects the values, customs, spiritual beliefs and practices of individuals and groups;
• Recognize and act appropriately in situations of law violations and/or Deontological Code violations, related
with nursing practice;
• Demonstrates understanding the processes associated with the law in health care.
• Recognizes the limits of your role and competence.

Syllabus

• Deontology in concrete situations. Ethical problems and ethical dilemmas - the decision-making process. Case
analysis as a method. Judgment and reasoning.
• Articulated benchmarks of professional practice: REPE and EOE / CDE - Analysis of Competencies of general
nurse in the area of responsibility and practice legal and ethical. Quality standards of care.
• Ethical committees in health care institutions.
• Deontological framework and analysis of problems. Multiculturalism. The safety of care. Delegation. Information
and consent. Case analysis.

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 knowledge that integrate concepts, principles, values and duties as well as their relationship in the Nursing professional practice framework and its regulation. Also Requires an in-depth analysis of professional deontology and the enlargement of its understanding to nursing care situations involving ethical and deontological problems or dilemmas. It is important, in the last year of the Nursing Degree, to in-depth analyzes and integrates the main instruments of deontology in the regulatory profession framework. The ethical-deontological analysis of cases brought by students from their clinical learning experiences, Improve student’s awareness of ethical and deontological dimensions of nursing clinical practice and consolidate the skills proposed for this UC.

Teaching methodologies

The Teaching methodology includes expository and participatory methodology with de use of case analysis. Deontological documents are placed in a Moodle platform and support the thematic discussions in the classroom.
The cases submitted to ethical and deontological analysis are proposed by the students from their clinical learning experiences.

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

The chosen methodology extends students ethical-deontological knowledge and promotes the deepening analysis of Deontological Code and its relationship with other professional regulatory instruments. The approach to different subjects associated with nursing care and the use of cases analysis, improve students understanding of ethical- deontological problems and dilemmas related to Nursing Care. The evaluation methodology allows assess: the degree of students conceptual ownership and their level of ethical-deontological analysis; their ability to identify and discuss ethical-deontological issues of clinical situations from experiences lived in clinical learning contexts. Allows understand the decision-making processes and action process (as explained by students in their Clinical Experience Reports) and its conformity with professional duties and persons dignity and rights respect.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

Continuous assessment includes the completion of a Seminar Portfolio - which results from the sum of five focused papers held by students in the context of the UC seminar classes.
The evaluation by Exam consists in the elaboration and discussion of a work (deontological analysis of topic - to be defined. It includes the articulated and integrated approach of all themes of the portfolio seminars).

Attendance system

Established in the Academic Regulation.

Software

Office - word, powerpoint

Keywords

Health sciences > Ethics in health sciences

Mandatory Bibliography

Complementary 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.