NUR 351 - Biomedical Ethics

3 CR

An analysis of ethical issues arising within modern medicine and the health care professions, such as paternalism and truth-telling, euthanasia, abortion, modern reproductive technologies, nurse-patient and nurse-physician relationships, civil commitment, and allocation of scarce medical resources. (This course is cross listed with PHI 351).

Prerequisite(s): NUR 220, NUR 224 (pre licensure track, NUR 304 (RN-BSN track).