Course Description

UNRS 496

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