BAET041c Health Care Ethics - practice

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Bujoková (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Vaňharová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course gives an introduction to health care ethics, with specific regard to midwifery. The aim of the course is: to provide a general introduction to health care ethics and to ethics in midwifery in particular; to give information about moral dilemmas in current health care; to learn how to prevent problems respecting ethical professional standards.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to health care ethics (terminology, methods, history) • Personal ethics and professional relationship • Patients‘ rights - obligations of health care providers • Theory and practice of informed consent • Ethics of communication in midwifery • Health care records and personal data protection • Transplantation ethics • Ethics in assisted reproduction • Prenatal and preimplantation diagnostics, genetic screening • End of life decisions • Ethics in biomedical research.
Literature
  • Od narození do smrti : etické problémy v lékařství. Edited by David C. Thomasma - Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, Translated by Lucie M. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 389 s. ISBN 8020408835. info
  • Blízké a vzdálené :etické teorie a principy práce s lidmi. Edited by Jan-Olav Henriksen - Arne Johan Vetlesen - Miluše Juříčková. 1. vyd. Boskovice: ALBERT, 2000, 210 s. ISBN 80-85834-85-5. info
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, Helena. Manuálek o etice (Ethics). Brno: Institut pro další vzdělání pracovníků ve zdravotnictví, 2000. ISBN 80-7013-310-4. info
  • Práva pacientů :komentované vydání. Edited by Helena Haškovcová - Jan Petrášek. [1. vyd.]. Havířov: Nakladatelství Aleny Krtilové, 1996, 176 s. ISBN 80-902163-0-7. info
  • GRACE, Pamela June. Nursing ethics and professional responsibility in advanced practice. 1st ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett publishers, 2009, xvii, 428. ISBN 9780763751104. info
  • BENJAMIN, Martin and Joy CURTIS. Ethics in nursing : cases, principles, and reasoning. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv, 285. ISBN 9780195380224. info
  • FOSTER, I. – LASSER, J. Professional Ethics in Midwifery Practice. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2011. 268 p. ISBN 9780763768805
  • JONES, S.R.. Ethics in Midwifery. Edinburgh: C. V. Mosby, 2000. ISBN 0-7234-3172-8
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
Requirement for giving course-unit credit is full and active attendance during the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: podzimní semestr.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: celkem 5.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018.
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