Bachelor's degree in Nursing (to qualify as a nurse) (Legnago)

Current year courses

Legal, bioethic and deontological principles of professional practice (2019/2020)

Course code: 4S000034
Credits: 4
Coordinator: Federica Bortolotti

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Teaching is organised as follows:
Unit	Credits	Academic sector	Period	Academic staff
DEONTOLOGIA E REGOLAMENTAZIONE DELL'ESERCIZIO PROFESSIONALE	1	MED/45-NURSING	INF LEG - 3° anno 2° sem	Aldo Zattarin
MEDICINA LEGALE	1	MED/43-FORENSIC MEDICINE	INF LEG - 3° anno 2° sem	Federica Bortolotti
BIOETICA	2	MED/02-MEDICAL HISTORY	INF LEG - 3° anno 2° sem	Zeno De Battisti

Learning outcomes

The general aim of the course is to provide to the students the theoretical instruments for understanding the legal and professional ethics principles, which should inspire their professional behaviour in the relationship with the patients, the colleagues and the physicians.
In particular, the teaching will be focused on providing the legal and ethical tools in order to develop an autonomous, competent and responsible skills suitable for facing the new aspects coming from the technical and legislative advancements.

Syllabus

The course includes three different modules:

- FORENSIC MEDICINE: principles from penal and civil codes useful for nursing practice;
- BIOETHICS: the historical and scientific reasons of the birth of a new branch of knowledge. Principles of Bioethics
- PROFESSIONAL DEONTOLOGY: principles which should inspire the nurses in the relationship with the patients, the colleagues and the physicians.

Assessment methods and criteria

The final exam will be written including multiple choice tests and general queries

Reference books
Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Note
P. Arbarello, T. Feola, M. Arcangeli	Medicina legale per le professioni sanitarie. Diritto. Deontologia. Legislazione sociale	Edizioni Minerva Medica	2010
L. Papi	Elementi di Medicina Legale per Infermieristica	Pisa University Press	2013	978-88-6741-202-0
Silingardi Enrico	Medicina Legale per i Corsi di Laurea ad orientamento Giuridico e Triennali (Edizione 1)	Edizioni Idelson-Gnocchi 1908 srl	2020
Viafora Corrado, Gaiani Alberto	A lezione di bioetica. Temi e strumenti	Franco Angeli	2016