Course Code: REL-ACU-0-EDMH
Hours: 1
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
List the four fundamental principles of bioethical decision-making.
Discuss how to apply the bioethical principles during patient treatment and care.
Describe how to use an existing ethical model during ethical decision-making.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Bioethics Principles
Definitions
Meet Stanley
Ethical Decision-Making
Applying the Four Fundamental Principles
Informed Consent
Truth-Telling
Confidentiality
Section 3: Ethical Modeling
Moral Judgment Development
Preconventional Morality-Level 1
Conventional Morality-Level 2
Postconventional or Principled Morality-Level 3
Natural Progression
Gilligan's Model of Moral Development
The Role of Critical Thinking
Dilemma Discussion
Section 4: Clinical Vignette
Stanley's Care Team Meets
Section 5: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
References
Subject Matter Expert: Edward Bartels, RN, BSN, MICN
Ed has 30 plus years of nursing experience with clinical roles in trauma, emergency, critical care, skilled nursing, behavioral health, occupational health, home care, and is a certified clinical nursing instructor in North Carolina. Ed served as Director of Nursing for rural emergency services and physician practices. Ed earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Ed retired from the U.S. Coast Guard with 34 years served.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Diagnostic Technologists and Technicians; Educators; Nursing Personnel; Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals; Pharmacists; in the following settings: Hospitals: Acute.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.