Nursing Ethics and Professional Nursing Regulation

The purpose of teaching is to acquire the advanced ethical-deontological and regulatory skills of:
- analysis of knowledge and methods of traditional nursing deontology;
- identification and critical reading of new tensions in the relationship between nursing profession and society;
- application of knowledge on the contents and limits of the ethical commitments of nurses in the relationship with the person, with the aim of health and well-being pursuing, encouraging participation in care choices and contributing to equitable and shared allocation of resources;
- systematic analysis of detectable ethical problems in nursing practice to express and guide responsible professional behaviours;
- understanding of the significance of the historical evolution of the nursing care history regulation in contemporary times and identification of a prospect for the future development of the profession.

The student will analyze the ethical and deontological problems of nursing practice according to methods derived from ethical theories for identification of alternative solutions.
Will analyse the nurse's role in society and in social and health context with reference to the current regulation in order to identify prospects for change useful for pursuing the health of the population.