May 10, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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NRSE 3120 - Professional Topics: Ethics, Diversity, and Gerontology


Focuses on exploration of ethical principles and application to practice of nursing. Addresses the concept of diversity and its influence on the acceptance and delivery of health care services. Examines the impact of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, class, and sexual orientation on concept of diversity as related to health care. Identification of factors that influence health and health-related choices by the older adult and their significant others is examined. Interventions discussed focus on negotiation of the health care system.

Requisites: NRSE 2210 and 2220 and (2230 or 2231) and 2240 and (2250 or 225A or 225B)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Apply ethical analysis frameworks to clinical situations.
  • Define cultural competence and its relationship to health care delivery.
  • Demonstrate ability to locate resources related to diversity and health disparity and use to improve clinical practice.
  • Develop professional attitudes, values and expectations about physical and mental aging and the relation to providing nursing care.
  • Distinguish between signs and symptoms of normal aging and those that indicate a potential disease process.
  • Examine the influence of race, gender, culture, religion, law, and economics on ethical concerns in practice.
  • Identify ethical concerns in nursing and health care.
  • Recognize and analyze one’s own attitudes, values, and beliefs that impact delivery of care.
  • Use valid and reliable assessment tools to guide nursing care for older adults.



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