Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6506SLTN-SEP-PAR
Aims
To enable professional nurses to develop a critical appreciation of related ethical and legal issues within the nursing profession
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically apply ethical theory and principles to moral dilemmas in practice
2.
Critically explore the role of the nurse in applying ethical and principles in practice
3.
Evaluate the application of ethical and legal decision making in healthcare practice
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:An overview of the Sri Lankan legal system. Legal aspects of consent, negligence, confidentiality, autonomy and relevant legal cases/precedents. Health related statute and common law. Guidelines and directives. Current issues arising from emerging health policy, clinical governance and evidence based practice. Traditional and contemporary ethical theory, making moral decisions, articulating moral arguments, critiquing arguments, values and ethical decision making.
Issues that can be discussed and may be used for the assessment include: end of life decisions, living wills, advanced directives, human rights, health and access to resources, protecting the vulnerable, moral aspects of pain and resuscitation, organ donation. Children and ethico-legal decision making. Mental illness and ethico-legal decision making
Additional Information:This module will be supported by VLE content