Health Care Ethics

2 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Health Care Ethics aims to cultivate a refined capacity for moral reflection and discourse. It offers an invitation for learners to reflect on their ability to address the ethical challenges inherent in contemporary nursing practice. Students will be challenged to develop the moral agency and ethical skills essential for ethical practice in today’s world. Summary of Course Relevance to GU NHS Values-Based Model: (human flourishing, common good, social justice, professional care, compassion, and individual-collective excellence) Health Care Ethics challenges its students to analyze when health care as it is currently being practiced advances the human flourishing of all (with special concern for vulnerable populations)-- and when it falls short. It promotes the formation of the type of moral agency essential to excellent practice.