Nursing Ethics Home Page

This page contains

1. Course Syllabus for A250
2. Readings in Ethics available on the Web.
3. An Example of How to Write about Nursing Ethics Problems Encountered in Practice

Readings in Medical and Nursing Ethics

• Ethics Policies and Codes
  Page from the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Home Page
• Moral Decision Making
  by Chris MacDonald, M.A., Graduate Student Research Associate,
  U.B.C. Centre for Applied Ethics
• A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making
  by Michael MacDonald, Maurice Young Chair in Applied Ethics and
  Director of the University of British Columbia's Centre for Applied Ethics
• Practical Ethics for Resident Physicians
  by Charles Junkerman, M.D. Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics, and
  David Schiedermayer, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin
• Introduction to Ethics- Syllabus and Lectures Notes Robert Cavalier's Course at Carnegie Mellon University
• American Hospital Association's Patients' Bill of Rights
• Case Consultation on Medical Ethics
  John La Puma, M.D., Consultant in Clinical Ethics, Department of Internal Medicine, Lutheran General Hospital
  David Schiedermayer, M.D. Ethics Consultant, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
• University of Chicago Hospitals' Policy on Informal Case Consultation in Nursing Ethics
  
• University of Chicago Hospitals' Policy on Formal Case Consultation in Nursing Ethics
• AHCPR Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Bioethics Bulletin
  Publications of the Division of Bioethics and
  the Bioethics Centre, University of Alberta and the Capital Health Authority (University Hospital Site)
• Nightingale Pledge
• Hippocratic Oath
• Staff Rights Not to Participate in an Aspect of Patient Care at University of Chicago
• ANA Code of Ethics
• Readings from the Case Western Reserve Center for Bioethics

Classic Ethics Texts

• Aristotle:Nichomachean Ethics
• Sample Aristotle's Nichomachen Ethics Book I
• Augustine
• Aquinas
• Kant's Metaphysics of Morals

Legal Issues Readings and Web Sources

• Indiana Nurses Practice Act
• Indiana Statutes Related to Health
• Patient Self-Determination Act
• Code referred to by the Patients Self-determination Act
• Lectric Law Library Medical Medicine and the Law - Malpractice
• The Medical Malpractice Home Page

Other Web Resources in Ethics

• Syllabus from University of Buffalo Course in Hospice Medicine
• Syllabus from DILEMMAS IN CLINICAL Medicine MEDICINE CLERKSHIP Dr. Freer's Course in Medical Ethics at the University of Buffalo
• Syllabus and Case Studies from Freer's Course
• Ethics and Health Related Course Syllabi from New York University Medical Humanities

Ethics Related Web Sites

• Nursing Ethics Network
• Nursing and Health Related Research Links
• MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
• MedWeb: Bioethics Resources
• AJN Online
• American Nurses Association at Nursing World
• US Code 42 Health and Public Welfare
• UCB Center for Applied Ethics
• U of Wisconsin Bioethics Online Services
• VESS Online Webguide to Medicine and Law
• Cinical Web Resources
• Online Medicine and Ethics Resources