Nursing · Boston College
The course prepares advanced practice nurses for ethics leadership within the broader healthcare arena. Links are made among philosophical/theoretical foundations of nursing, ethical theory, and nursing goals. Skills supportive of the ethical decision making of nurses, peers, and the team are developed with in-class opportunities to practice leading ethics rounds and developing ethics education projects. An emphasis is placed on facilitating the interests of current and future patients and society as a professional obligation. Socially derived injustices and professional responsibility to advo
