PHIL 212 - Nursing Ethics

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C2;
Introduction to philosophical ethics for nurses. Topics include values, reproductive issues, organ transplants, aging, meaning, and quality of life, end-of-life issues, and others relevant to nurses and other health care professionals.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice)
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C2 - Lower Division Humanities
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Develop empathetic understanding of other people’s lived experiences.
More successfully read complex texts and understand arguments, alternative positions, and express criticisms and different points of view orally and in writing.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of other people’s philosophical beliefs, creeds, and/or religious traditions.
Develop their capacities for ethical decision making in pressing contexts that require emotional understanding of specific caring situations, Socratic humility to listen and observe different lived-experiences, openness to ideas of others, reflective self-awareness, and a life-long curiosity about big questions concerning life and well-being.
Cultivate an appreciation for a diversity of ideas in different health contexts and values across time and for human difference.

C2. Humanities Learning Outcomes

Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.