UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE
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Course: Ethics and Law in Nursing Science and Nursing Research

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Course title Ethics and Law in Nursing Science and Nursing Research
Course code UOP/OETIK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šimek Jiří, doc. MUDr. CSc.
Course content
Ethics of clinical research, Declaration of Helsinki, and legislatition regulating clinical research Declaration of Helsinki, its origin and further development. Bio-ethical convention and its application to the Czech healthcare law. Ethical committees, their roles and composition. Integrity of a research study protection of the subjects of the study. Ethics of publication of professional texts and duty of publishing research results. Problem of maintaining human dignity in medicine and research. Philosophy of nursing ethics. Philosophy and psychology of care. Overview of basic theories of morals. Medical ethics. Nursing ethics. Specifics of nursing ethics. Importance and tasks of nursing ethics. Patient rights, informed consent in clinical medicine and research. Problem of decision making on the termination of life, euthanasia, assisted suicide. Ethical dilemmas of assisted reproduction, research performed using embryos and cloning, the problem of stem cells.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The lectures will based on the Declaration of Helsinki, students will be made acquainted with the ethical problems of research. Furthermore, the Europeal Council Convention on Human Rights ratified by the Czech Republic in 2001 will be discussed. This Convention is pervaded by the basic principle - free decision making on the right for physical integrity and inviolability of a human being. With regard to clinical ethics, nursing ethics will be discussed more deeply. The subject is based on the knowledge acquired in the bachelor and master degree programs. The knowledge of theoretical ethics and the ability to hold an ethical discourse refined. Other hot topics of healthcare ethics will be mentioned.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
To show the knowledge of theoretical ethics and the ability to hold an ethical discourse. To identify ethical and legal aspects relating to one`s own research project.
Recommended literature
  • Helsinská deklarace.
  • Úmluva o lidských právech a biomedicíně..
  • Beauchamp, T.L. and Childress, J.F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics.. New York, 2019.
  • HEŘMANOVÁ, J. et al. Etika v ošetřovatelské praxi.. Praha, Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-3469-9.
  • Hughes, J. European Textbook on Ethics in Research. EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Directorate-General for Research, Brussels, 2010.
  • Kutnohorská, Jana. Etika v ošetřovatelství. Vyd. 1. Praha : Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-2069-2.
  • Kutnohorská, Jana. Výzkum v ošetřovatelství. 1. vyd. Praha : Grada, 2009. ISBN 978-80-247-2713-4.
  • Leget, C., Gastmans, CH., Verkerk, M.:. Care, Compassion and Recognition: An Ethical Discussion. Peeters, Herent, 2011.
  • Lévinas, E. Totalita a nekonečno. Praha: Oikymenh, 1997.
  • MacIntyre, A. Ztráta ctnosti. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004.
  • MAZALOVÁ, M. Kapitoly z výzkumu v ošetřovatelství. Fakulta zdrav. Věd, UP Olomouc, 2016.
  • ŠIMEK, J. Etika péče v praxi praktického lékaře. Prakt. Lék, 2014.
  • Šimek, J. Lékařská etika. Grada Praha 2015..
  • ŠIMEK, J., ŠIMEK, J.JR. Lékaři a zákon. Prakt. Lék, 2014.
  • ŠIMEK, J., ZAMYKALOVÁ, L., MESANYOVÁ, M., SVOBODOVÁ, H. Etika výzkumu a etické komise v České republice.. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3397-5.
  • Tugendhat, E. Přednášky o etice. Praha, 2004.


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 01.05.2024 23:50. Data created for academic year 2023/2024