Entry requirements

Students applying for entry to the course must fulfil the general requirements for university entrance and have qualified as a nurse.

Learning outcomes

The course is intended to give the student a deepened knowledge in nursing philosophy and ethical concepts as well as an increased ability to handle ethical problems in a practical setting. The course also provides an overview of the theories and models in nursing. Special focus will be upon varying ethical theories such as narrative ethics, communicative ethics and feminist ethics. Throughout the course the theoretical perspectives are related to concrete ethical dilemmas.

After the course the student should have achieved

- a greater insight in the number of values and norms that occur in work with human beings

- a greater ability to use one's own ethical competence and experience and an expanded engagement in ethical questions

- an increased knowledge on how ethical theories and concepts can structure the ethical judgement

- an insight in how gender and other socio-economic and cultural factors might inflict ethical decisions

- a deepened knowledge in nursing theories and their connection to nursing ethics

Content

Nursing philosophy

Ethics

Nursing theories and models

Instruction

The course includes lectures, seminars and individual work.

Assessment

The examination consists of an individual written essay.