NUR 395 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Nursing Practice

Credit Hours: 2 Lecture Hours: 2.54
Nursing elective. Designed to encourage students to formulate health care decisions based on legal parameters and ethical principles. Examines legislation that impacts nursing and provides guidelines for providing safe effective care within legal boundaries. Ethical theories and principles are analyzed as they are applied to dilemmas frequently encountered in nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s) Admission to nursing major