I am finding it very difficult to access information on the academic program that is specific for Nurses who want to gain expertise and knowledge in medical law and ethics which then can be utilized within scope of Nursing Practice.
Any suggestions?
Hello Immanuel
Have you seen these? However, although inviting nurses, they do not seem to be directed at nurses specifically:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses/medicalethicsandlaw/
http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=505
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-courses/medical-ethics-and-law-ma.aspx
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/humanandhealthsciences/healthcare-law-and-ethics/
I see that there is a course available from Manchester, that, no doubt, you are familiar with:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/01203/healthcare-ethics-and-law-distance-learning-ma/
Very best wishes
Mary
Hi Mary
Many Thanks for your informed reply. I been through these, as you mentioned its generic medical law and ethics.
I have been in touch with them to see if they can offer anything specific for Nursing practice, it seems the information out there is very dearth.
I think it would be too narrowly targeted to gather student base. In bioethics program in my institute (MA) we have quite a few nurse / midwife students, but it would be way too narrowly targeted. Also the way I understand their incentives to study bioethics is that they could sit on ethics comities and such - and then they need more general medical ethics then just things related to nursing. But I could be misunderstanding your question?
Hi Jakub
Many Thanks for your reply. You are right at the moment Law and Ethics is covered by overall umbrella of medical law and ethics. I am very keen in exploring the need and the viability to have a self governed and autonomous law and ethics specific to Nursing practice.
Gathering soft intelligence at the moment, any suggestion both (positive and negative )would be most welcome.
is there a need for law and ethics to focus on nursing practice as a profession?
Best Regards
Victor
Hi Jakub
Many Thanks for your reply. You are right at the moment Law and Ethics is covered by overall umbrella of medical law and ethics. I am very keen in exploring the need and the viability to have a self governed and autonomous law and ethics specific to Nursing practice.
Gathering soft intelligence at the moment, any suggestion both (positive and negative )would be most welcome.
is there a need for law and ethics to focus on nursing practice as a profession?
Best Regards
Victor
There is definitely interest in nursing as an area of inquiry in all the medical humanities, bioethics and biolaw.There are quite a few publications, both periodicals and books already. But as an area of study I would think it just to narrow a field for a master's course or similar.
The following mentioned site may be help to you:-
http://medicalethics.med.upenn.edu/
I think it is a mistake to look for law relating only to nursing because there is hardly any. In the UK, outside of the Nursing and Midwifery Order (which incorporates EU on mutual recognition of qualifications) it is the application of general principles of Health Care Law to issues in nursing practice. I had a go at this a long time ago in a book on Nursing and the Law (1989) and it is not really a separate legal subject in English law.
Appreciate your reply, however it is not to look for law relating to nursing. I am trying to have an insight into law and ethics from the Nursing point of view as we do from other specialist division. With the given emphasis on duty of candour, liability, NMC regulatory changes and advancing scope of practice of Nurses this can give an in-depth understanding and can and will form a skeletal for the framework of advance practice.
You might like to have a look at an old chapter 'Doctors' handmaidens: the legal contribution' from January 1992 in book: Health, Health Regulation and the Law, Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Co., Aldershot, Editors: McVeigh S & Wheeler S, pp.141-168. The text is here on ResearchGate. The legal details are outdated, but the issues seem current.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Philosophy
- Ethics