CARE COLLEGE OF NURSING

PROFESSIONALISM, PROFESSIONAL VALUES & ETHICS

PLACEMENT: IV SEMESTER
THEORY: 1 Credit (20 hours)
DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to help students to develop
an understanding of professionalism and demonstrate professional
behavior in their workplace with ethics and professional values.
Further the students will be able to identify ethical issues in nursing
practice and participate effectively in ethical decision making along
with health team members.
COMPETENCIES: On completion of this course, the students will
be able to
1. Describe profession and professionalism.
2. Identify the challenges of professionalism.
3. Maintain respectful communication and relationship with other
health team members, patients and society.
4. Demonstrate professional conduct.
5. Describe various regulatory bodies and professional organizations
related to nursing.
6. Discuss the importance of professional values in patient care.
7. Explain the professional values and demonstrate appropriate
professional values in nursing practice.
8. Demonstrate and reflect on the role and responsibilities in
providing compassionate care in the healthcare setting.
9. Demonstrate respect, human dignity and privacy and
confidentiality to self, patients and their caregivers and other health
team members.
10. Advocate for patients‘ wellbeing, professional growth and
advancing the profession.
11. Identify ethical and bioethical concerns, issues and dilemmas in
nursing and healthcare.
 12. Apply knowledge of ethics and bioethics in ethical decision making
along with health team members.
13. Protect and respect patient‘s rights.

COURSE OUTLINE
T – Theory
TEACHING/ ASSESSMEN
UNIT HOURS LEARNING CONTENT LEARNING T METHOD
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES
I 5 (T) Discuss PROFESSIONALIS • Lecture • Short
nursing as a M cum answer
profession Profession Discussion • Essay
• Definition of • Objective
profession type
• Criteria of a
Describe the profession
concepts and
• Nursing as a
attributes of
profession
professionalis
m Professionalism
• Definition and
characteristics of
professionalism
• Concepts, attributes
and indicators of • Debate
Identify the
professionalism
challenges of
professionalis • Challenges of
m professionalism
o Personal identity • Role play
Maintain vs professional
identity
respectful o Preservation of
communicatio self-integrity:
n and threat to integrity,
relationship Deceiving patient:
with other withholding
health team information and • Case based
members, falsifying records discussion
patients and
o Communication &
society
Relationship with
team members:
Respectful and
Demonstrate open
professional communication • Lecture
conduct and relationship cum
pertaining to Discussion
relevant interests
Respect and
for ethical
maintain
decision making
professional Visit
boundaries o Relationship with
• Visit to reports
between patients and
patients, society INC, SNC,
colleagues TNAI
Professional
and society Conduct
• Following ethical
principles
Describe the • Adhering to
roles and policies, rules and
responsibilitie regulation of the
s of institutions
regulatory
bodies and • Professional
professional etiquettes and
organizations behaviours
• Professional
grooming: Uniform,
Dress code
• Professional
boundaries:
Professional
relationship with the
patients, caregivers
 and team members
Regulatory Bodies
& Professional
Organizations:
Roles &
Responsibilities
• Regulatory bodies:
Indian Nursing
Council, State
Nursing Council
•Professional
Organizations:
Trained Nurses
Association of India
(TNAI),
Student Nurses
Association (SNA),
Nurses League of
Christian Medical
Association of
India, International
Council of Nurses
(ICN) and
International
Confederation of
Midwives
II 5 (T) Discuss the PROFESSIONAL • Lecture • Short
importance of VALUES cum answer
professional • Values: Definition Discussion • Essay
values and characteristics Value
• Assessment
of values clarificatio of student‘s
Distinguish • Value clarification n exercise behavior
between • Interactive with
personal • Personal and
learning patients
values and professional values
and
Professional • Story
professional • families
values socialization: telling
Integration of • Sharing
professional values experience
Demonstrate with personal values s
appropriate
professional Professional values Scenario
 values in in nursing based
nursing • Importance of discussion
practice professional values
in nursing and
health care
• Caring: definition,
and process
• Compassion:
Sympathy Vs
empathy,
Altruism
• Conscientiousness
• Dedication/devotion
to work
• Respect for the
person- Human
dignity
• Privacy and
confidentiality:
Incidental
disclosure
• Honesty and
integrity: Truth
telling
• Trust and
credibility: Fidelity,
Loyalty
Advocacy: Advocacy
for patients, work
environment, nursing
education and
practice, and for
advancing the
profession
III 10 (T) ETHICS & • Lecture • Short
Define ethics BIOETHICS cum answer
& bioethics Definitions: Ethics, discussion • Essay
Bioethics and • Group • Quiz
Ethical Principles discussion
Explain • Reflective
ethical • Beneficence with diary
principles • Non-maleficence: examples • Case
Patient safety, • Flipping/ report
Identify protecting patient selfdirected • Attitude
ethical from harm, learning test
concerns Reporting errors
• Role play • Assessme
• Justice: Treating nt of
• Story
each person as assignme
telling
equal nt
• Sharing
• Care without
experience
discrimination,
s
equitable access to
Ethical issues care and safety of • Case based
and dilemmas the public Clinical
in health care discussion
• Autonomy:
Respects patients‘ • Role
autonomy, Self- modeling
determination, • Group
Freedom of choice exercise on
Ethical issues and ethical
ethical dilemma: decision-
making
Common ethical following
problems steps on a
• Conflict of interest given
• Paternalism
scenario
• Deception Assignment
Privacy and
confidentiality
• Valid consent and
refusal
• Allocation of scarce
nursing resources
• Conflicts
concerning new
technologies
• Whistle-blowing

• Beginning of life

issues o Abortion o
 Substance abuse o
Fetal therapy o
Selective deduction
o Intrauterine
treatment of fetal
conditions o
Mandated
contraception
o Fetal injury
o Infertility
treatment

Explain
process of End
ethical of
decision
making and life
apply
issues
knowledge of
ethics and o End
bioethics in
making of life
ethical o
decisions
Eutha
nasia
o Do Not
Resuscitate (DNR)
 Issues related to
psychiatric care
o Non compliance

o Restrain and
Discuss the seclusion
rights of the
o Refuse to take
patients and
families to food
make
decisions Process of ethical
about health decision making
care
• Assess the situation
(collect
Protect and information)
respect • Identify the ethical
patients‘ problem
rights
• Identify the
alternative decisions
• Choose the solution
to the ethical
decision
• Implement the
decision
• Evaluate the
decision
Ethics committee:
Roles and
responsibilities
• Clinical decision
making
• Research
Code of Ethics
• International
Council of Nurses
(ICN)
• Indian Nursing
Council
Patients’ Bill of
Rights-17 patients’
rights (MoH&FW,
GoI)
1. Right to
emergency
medical care
2. Right to safety and
quality care
according to
standards
3. Right to preserve
dignity
4. Right to
nondiscrimination
5. Right to privacy
and confidentiality
6. Right to
information
7. Right to records
and reports
8. Right to informed
consent
9. Right to second
opinion
10. Right to patient
education
11. Right to choose
alternative
treatment options
if available
12. Right to choose
source for
obtaining
medicines or tests
13. Right to proper
referral and
transfer, which is
free from perverse
commercial
influences
14. Right to take
discharge of
patient or receive
body of deceased
from hospital
15. Right to
information on the
rates to be charged
by the hospital for
each type of
service provided
 and facilities
available on a
prominent display
board and a
brochure
16. Right to protection
for patients
involved in
clinical trials,
biomedical and
health research
Right to be heard and
seek redressal