Curricular Unit:			Code:
Ethics in Health and Safety in the Workplace			1013ESST
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Postgraduate	Nursing in the Workplace	2 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	26
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
• Contribute to sensitizing students to the global Occupational Health problem; • Reflect on ethical and deontological issues in nursing work: employees, family, co-workers, and good organization of work and company. Skills: • To know and identify the duties and ethical aspects inherent to work nursing; • Demonstrate ethical competences and moral judgments weighted in solving problems; • Structuring the knowledge referred to a set of steps, rules and actions directed to the resolution of ethical dilemmas and decision-making process.
Syllabus:
Nature and fundamentals of Ethics in work nursing: • Historical introduction and thematization of Ethics, Morals, Bioethics Deontology. • Bioethics and Principle Theory and Informed and Free Consent • Ethics in work nursing: discussion of the main problems - dilemmas and conflicts in work nursing: Professional Secrecy: Privacy and Confidentiality • Ethics in Decision Making • Corporate Social Responsibility
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Understanding the ethical dimension in the exercise of work nursing and developing ethical action presupposes knowing the Nature and foundations of Ethics in nursing. Reflecting on the ethical and deontological requirements in work nursing: employees, family, co-workers, and the organization of work and the company, implies knowing the Principles and ethical theory in health care. Knowing the ethical and deontological requirements in relation to the employees / family, company, their work colleagues, presupposes knowing the organization itself, and the Professional, Ethical and Legal Practice of national and international nursing and reflect on bioethical aspects
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The teaching methodology used will be active focused on the continuum of the development of the ethical / legal competencies of the work nursing. Teaching exposition by the teacher of the programmatic contents; discussion and reflection of articles, and practical cases experienced by students in their practice, with a discussion of the problems raised by them. The evaluation consists in the accomplishment of an individual / group work that addresses a reflection on the ethical / dilemma issues that identify in their place of work. The result of the evaluation will result in a classification in a scale of zero to twenty values and the student is considered approved with a rating equal to or greater than 10 (ten) values. The final note of the course reflects only the evaluation of the written work.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
Developing ethical action and the acquisition of competencies implies the analysis, discussion and reflection of cases by the students, with the collaboration / guidance of the teacher, for which an active and committed participation of the students is required, including the use of individual reading and analysis of articles and practical cases. In addition to experiential experience in the Service, classes and seminars are given: a prepared and oriented discussion of specific topics, posed by students, with the participation of teachers and students; Group work: pedagogical activity of analysis and resolution of problems identified in the workplace.
Reading:
• Archer, Luís; Biscaia, Jorge; Osswald, Walter, (coord.). (1996). Bioética. Editorial Verbo, Lisboa, São Paulo: Verbo. • Archer, Luís; Biscaia, Jorge, et al. (2001). Novos Desafios à Bioética, Porto Editora. • Beauchamp, T.L. & Childress, J.F. (2002). Princípios de Ética Biomédica. (4 ed.) São Paulo: Edições Loyola. • Cabral, R. (1996). “Os princípios de autonomia, beneficência, não-maleficência e justiça”, in: Archer, L., Biscaia, J. & Osswald, W. Bioética. Lisboa: Ed. Verbo, pp. 53-58. • Dias M., Carlos de (2003). Consentimento Informado. Coimbra. Ed. Formasau, pp7-13 • Nunes, L. (2011). Ética de Enfermagem. Fundamentos e horizontes. Loures: Lusociência • Ordem do Enfermeiros (2005). Código Deontológico do Enfermeiro: Dos Comentários à análise de casos. Lisboa