PRINCIPLES OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING CARE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Course Sheet

Course code:

IN32C3F

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in NURSING

Disciplinary Sector:

General, Clinical and Pediatric Nursing

Is part of:

PRINCIPLES OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING CARE

Location:

VASTO

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TAMAGNINI GIANFRANCO

Cycle:

Second semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Knowledge relating to the concept of health and illness, of communication and therapeutic relationship systems, of the operational mechanisms of the care process and of the general concepts of ethics

Objectives

Knowing how to implement ethical and deontologically correct behaviors, also in relation to the humanization aspects of care and the rules that regulate nursing practice.
Promote the protection of human rights from a multicultural perspective while respecting the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of each individual as a human being.
Accept the responsibilities connected to professional practice by recognizing one's areas of competence and arguing with ethical discernment the motivations underlying such behaviors.
Know the main bioethical positions in relation to the fundamental moments of life (birth, death) and the possible interactions with contemporary scientific and technological progress in the healthcare sector.

Contents

Ethics as "search for the good" and "reflection on right behavior". The challenges of new powers of intervention on life: how to determine the limit of human intervention? Where does life begin and where does it end and how much has scientific technological progress modified these boundaries, requiring a new identification of the human subject? Nursing action and its bioethical contents in relation to the beginning of life, choices at the end of life, experimentation and genetic engineering.

Extended Syllabus

MAIN STEPS TO AN ETHICS FOR LIFE
REFERENCE ETHICAL MODELS:
- RADICAL LIBERAL
- PRAGMATIC-UTILITARIAN
PARTNER – BIOLOGIST
PATERNALIST
RELIGIOUS (Catholic, Muslim)
CURRENT ETHICAL CURRENTS:
JUSTICIVISM
UTILITARIANISM
PSYCHOLOGISM
SOCIOLOGISM
NEOPOSITIVISM
CONTRACTUALITY
ETHICAL RELATIVISM
BIOETHICS AND MAJOR RELIGIONS:
- CHRISTIANITY
- JUDAISM
- ISLAM
- BUDDHISM
- HINDUISM
- CONFUCIANISM
CATHOLIC BIOETHICS AND SECULAR BIOETHICS
BIOETHICS: FUNDAMENTAL TOPICS (NOTES ON THERAPEUTIC USE, CLONING, ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZATION, TRANSPLANTATION, STEM CELLS)
INSIGHTS:
- EUTHANASIA
- INTERRUPTION OF PREGNANCY
BEAUCHAMP AND CHILDRESS PRINCIPLES:
- AUTONOMY
- BENEFICIALITY
- NOT MALEFICIENCY
- JUSTICE
ELEMENTS OF BIOETHICS IN PSYCHIATRY:
- DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
- INFORMED CONSENT AND ABSENCE OF COERCION
- T.S.O AND MALPRACTICEI
- PSYCHODRUGS
- ELECTROSHOCK AND PSYCHOSURGERY
- RESEARCH
- RESOURCE ALLOCATION

Recommended Bibliography

P.Cattorini, Bioethics.Method and basic elements for addressing clinical problems, Masson Library, Milan
G.Fornero, Catholic Bioethics and Secular Bioethics, Bruno Mondadori
C. Viafora, A. Gaiani, ed., A lesson in bioethics. Themes and instruments, Franco Angeli, Milan
L.Montanari, L.Saiani, Gestures and thoughts of care, Mc Grow Hill, 2013, Milan

Teaching Methods

Lectures, in-depth seminars on one or more topics of interest to the students

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination

Contacts/More Information

During the course, contents of a conference will be screened where focal bioethical topics were discussed

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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