NSG 440 - Global Health: Ethics and Human Rights

1. Ethical principles, theory, and decision making
2. Values development and clarification
3. Legal issues: professional relationships, technology, self-determination, academia
4. Global issues: health policy, economic, social, gender, transcultural, and spiritual
5. Empowerment: personal, professional, patient 

1. Analyze the impact of social, philosophical, and historical elements have influenced the evolution of professional nursing ethics. (1,5)
2. Differentiate between ethics and law, discuss the relationship of each to the other. (1,3)
3. Assess issues related to professional relationships and strategies that nurses can use to resolve conflict. (1,2,5)
4. Evaluate the impact of legal issues of technology on nursing and healthcare. (3)
5. Examine the role of nurses related to practice issues and patient self-determination. (3)
6. Analyze scholarship issues encountered by nurses in academia and clinical settings. (3)
7. Examine the role and ethical responsibility of professional nurses in addressing local, nationwide, and international environmental issues (1,4) 
8. Explore the health policy process and the role of ethics in policy making. (3,4)
9. Articulate how ethics relates to social, gender, transcultural and spiritual issues. (1,4)