#HC-03-31 Ethical Decision-Making in Care
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
University of SurreyDescription
Learn how to use ethical frameworks to make decisions in care
On this course, you’ll explore ethical issues that arise in daily care, and learn the best practices for reflecting on and making moral decisions.
You’ll consider different ethical frameworks, including human rights, virtue ethics and the ‘Four Principles’ of medical ethics: nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, and respect for autonomy.
You’ll compare methods of analysing a caregiving scenario, and identify the moral and ethical problems of a care situation. You’ll also learn how to apply a deliberative framework, where deliberation on a decision from multiple points of view is essential.
What topics will you cover?
Different ethical frameworks:
- ‘Four Principles’
- Human Rights
- Virtue ethics
Who developed the course?
The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. Surrey empowers students for personal and professional success by providing exceptional teaching and practical learning.
What Will I Learn?
- Explain the meaning of 'ethics' in relation to care.
- Explain how ethics differs from related concepts.
- Explain The Four Principles Approach to care ethics.
- Apply the Four Principles to a midwifery scenario.
- Identify why ethics in care now receives a lot of media attention.
- Describe human rights frameworks that impact on care-giving.
- Evaluate the role of human rights in care.
- Apply insights in human rights to decision-making regarding disagreements in care.
- Describe the key elements of Virtue Ethics.
- Identify moral problems that arise in care.
- Debate the usefulness of Virtue Ethics in relating to care-recipient choices.
- Apply Virtue Ethics to public health decision-making.
- Identify ethical aspects of an elder care scenario.
- Compare and contrast three different ways of analysing an elder care scenario.
- Apply a Deliberative Framework to care-giving scenarios.
- Discuss the role of ethical decision-making in care during a pandemic.
- Reflect on your learning from this course.
Topics for this course
Introduction
Welcome00:03:31
Draft Lesson
What is ethics?
The Four Principles Approach
What Should Becky Do?
Application of the Four Principles Approach
After this course, I reconsidered different ethical frameworks, including the "four principles" of human rights, virtue ethics, and medical ethics: non-malice, kindness, justice, and respect for autonomy.
The course works with us to explore ethical issues that arise in everyday care and to learn best practices for reflecting and making ethical decisions. A course suitable for each of us to study.
In this course we learn how to use ethical frameworks to make decisions in nursing, as well as different ethical frameworks such as the "Four Principles", human rights and virtue ethics.
In this course, I learned how to compare and analyze the methods of nursing plan and determine the moral and ethical issues of nursing plan. You also learned how to apply the deliberative framework, in which deliberative decisions are essential from multiple perspectives. It was so much fun. The lessons are great.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is primarily designed for caregivers, care assistants and nurses.
- However, the course will also be of interest to anyone engaged in health and social care, or who uses health and social care services.