IN32C3F - PRINCIPLES OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING CARE

courses
ID:
IN32C3F
Duration (hours):
15
CFU:
1
SSD:
SCIENZE INFERMIERISTICHE GENERALI, CLINICHE E PEDIATRICHE
Located in:
VASTO
Url:
NURSING/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (03/03/2026 - 30/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course 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.

Course 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

Teaching Methods

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

Assessment Methods

Oral examination

Texts

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

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.

Course Language


Italian

More information

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

Degrees

Degrees

NURSING 
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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People

People

TAMAGNINI GIANFRANCO
Teaching staff
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