Senior Seminar: Ethics and Issues in Health Care (4)
The focus of this course is on the integration of
Christian faith, ethical issues, and professional
concerns which confront nurses in their work life. It
also includes consideration of issues and trends in
health care and nursing. Integration of such concerns as
providers of health care, quality of health, access to
health care, education of the health care professionals,
and consumerism with ethical concerns are investigated.
This course also contains a comprehensive paper written
on a bioethical issue which meets the senior writing
requirement. Each week there is a discussion period
around ethical concerns which correlates to the material
presented in class. Meets the general studies
requirement of a senior seminar. Prerequisites: upper-
division writing intensive course (UNRS 306), UNRS 310,
UNRS 313, UNRS 314, UNRS 367; pre- or corequisite: UNRS
425; corequisites: UNRS 410, senior standing in the
School of Nursing, and completion of the majority of the
units required for God's Word and the Christian
Response