39333 - Deontology - Nursing Ethics (FA)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student has developed and addressed with critical thinking recognizing the problematic nature, the ethical deontological issues connected to the professional practice and in line with the bioethical guidelines of the health sector.

Course contents

Professional responsibility from the application of rules to ethical and deontological principles

• Concepts of morality, ethics, bioethics and deontology
• Historical notes on the evolution of Codes of Ethics The ethical codes, with particular reference to the contents of the 2019 Nursing Professions Code of Ethics and the ICN Code of Ethics: analysis of values and principles and their meaning in clinical practice. Regulatory references founding the professional responsibility of the nurse linked to ethics and deontology
• Ethics and bioethics
• The main approaches to ethics, the ethical principles for making decisions in ethical conflict/dilemma.
• The current epistemological debate in bioethics, its influences on life sciences and in particular on the beginning and end of life.
• Ethical aspects of research and bioethical committees - CNB.
• Methodology and tools for ethical analysis and decision-making in nursing practice between the position of the professional and the autonomy of the assisted person: restraint, therapeutic persistence, voluntary termination of pregnancy, assisted procreation, ethics at the end of life and, euthanasia
• The ethics of “care” Ethical principles for nursing practice: advocacy, competence, cooperation and caring. The ethical meaning of caring gestures. Care aspects of ethical significance, aimed at promoting and guaranteeing the protection and safety of the patient, his autonomy and his rights
• Cases for ethical - deontological reflections

Readings/Bibliography

Pio Lattarulo, (2021) "Professional ethics and deontology" II edition, McGrawHill

Fry S T & Johnstone M.J. (2004) Ethics for nursing practice, Milan Ambrosiana publishing house

Cattorini P (2011) Bioethics. Method and basic elements for dealing with clinical problems Elsevier Milano

ICN International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of Conduct for Nurses Revision 2012 www.ipasvi.it

National Federation of Nursing Professions: Nursing Code of Ethics 2019

Commentary on the 2019 Code of Practice for Nurses

Luca Benci, Legal aspects of the nursing profession, Mc GrawHill 2019, VIII edition.

Articles that will be indicated during the lessons

Teaching methods

Lectures with links to the experiences lived in the internship

working groups

Assessment methods

Evaluation of group work

Oral evaluation

Teaching tools

Computer video flip chart

Office hours

See the website of Carla Cortini