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Spring 2021 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NUR (0302) 880 - Legal and Ethical Considerations in AP Nursing


Credits: 3.00

Students will learn essential knowledge of the legal and ethical standards applicable to advanced nursing practice. Students critique case studies focusing on ethical practice dilemmas, choose theories to support ethical decision making, and identify and analyze current legal regulations pursuant to advanced nursing practice within the healthcare system.

Prerequisite 1: NUR 874  and NUR 875  and NUR 876  and NUR 877  and NUR 878  
Corequisite: NUR 879  


Course Learning Goals: At the conclusion of the course the students will be able to:

1.    Identify and analyze legal/regulatory issues relevant to advanced practice, particularly those involving scope of practice, for reflection and recommendation of individual and system-wide plans of practice.
2.    Select and evaluate ethical theories for in-depth analysis of ethical dilemmas of practice.
3.    Analyze and debate the multiple facets of ethical decision making for the nurse as an individual and a member of a unit, system and community.
4.    Evaluate the nature of complex organizations and its influence on the role of the advanced practice nurse in influencing and improving the ethical and legal decisions involved in patient care.
5.    Demonstrate an understanding of the multiple issues involved in the complex ethical decisions of today’s provision of advanced practice nursing